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To Lamintare, or Not To Laminate
That is the question. And the answer is laminate, and laminate with fervor. Many people assume they can get away with not laminating. For some reason, people believe that lamination is a waste of time and money. On the contrary, laminating is actually a cost-effective time saver.
If you plan on receiving promotional printing services from a corporate identity printing company, there should be a laminating machine in your near future. Lamination can be used with custom banner printing, full color photo printing, post card printing, stationery printing, and even business card printing.
Remember all those bulletin boards in elementary school, and how everything on them was laminated? That wasn’t just a silly little compulsive quirk of the entire education community. Those posters, explaining why “reading is wondrous” and “sharing is caring,” have made the cycle from classroom wall, to storage closet, and back again, since the down of time. The only reason they’ve survived eons of school days is the two plastic sheets they are sealed between.
What does this mean for you? The main point is that lamination preserves and protects. If you spend time creating any type of corporate identity printing display, and they get it printed in quantity, you are going to want to maintain these pieces for multiple and maximum use. Or, you can suffer the alternative of allowing your custom promotional printing to go uncovered. This means it will be susceptible to a laundry list of harmful mishaps.
Let’s now discuss all the things that could go wrong with a non-laminated piece. Even simply in transportation from one location to another, a poster could become torn, creased and dog-eared. Are you planning to roll up printing for trade show panel displays? If your posters aren’t covered, you’ll have to think of a better way to transport them. Unless, of course, you don’t want your posters to ever lay flat again. Lamination maintains the original shape of your poster printing. So if you need to roll up your posters as a space saver or for transportation, you will not have a problem with a laminated piece.
Lamination can guard your promotional printing pieces so that you don’t have to worry about the hypothetical what-ifs. In addition to creases and wrinkles, lamination will protect from spills, rain, grease and chemicals, smudges and fingerprints, abrasion, and the sun.
Attracted by shiny objects? Shimmer isn’t the only visual plus of laminating your custom banner printing. Lamination can improve the appearance of your display by giving a deeper and brighter look to your colors and enhancing contrast. Additionally, as with custom online printing options, you can choose from gloss, matte, or satin finish; all of which allow for easy removal of dirt and grease. Laminating your projects makes them look cleaner and more professional.
But why would an extra purchase of laminate save you money? In the long run, laminating your projects is a more cost-effective solution because your work is conserved for longer. You will spend more money re-printing all of your ruined displays, than you will spend on long-lasting lamination. Plus, laminated materials can be reused because important graphics are protected. Promotional printing often includes the extra cost of backing materials for banner printing and poster printing. However, laminate will stiffen your display so backing is not needed. Laminated outdoor banner printing can serve as a low-cost sign, with the ability to stand up to treacherous weather conditions.
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 22nd, 2008