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To that end, he says, his lab added a 38-inch GBC heat-activated laminator able to handle a variety of print types from newspaper pages to tear sheets to fine art reproduction. Eventually, he graduated to the Coda 64-inch mounter/laminator, for which he has nothing but praise. “Coda put together a superb mounting machine, adding heated rollers for thermal laminates. It can handle the largest common substrates (5’x10’) in both mounting and laminating. We use three wide-format printers at 60” and commonly mount and/or laminate nearly 70% of all that output.” Coda’s equipment, he proclaims, is “the greatest we’ve used for the purpose we intended.”
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John Deley, meanwhile, is the proprietor of Pro-Set Color (www.proset.com), a shop in West Paterson, NJ, that offers a wide range of photographic equipment, digital imaging services and photographic lab services. When his company added laminating and mounting to their service menu, it became a big money-maker for them. “Most of our mounting,” he says, “is done for clients who have their own large-format printers and choose not to be involved with the finishing process. We also mount photographs we produce in-house.”
In recent years, Pro-Set has moved away from large-format signage and more toward wedding and portrait photographic output. As such, mounting and laminating no longer represent as large a percentage of its business. “We use mounting and laminating as an added value for the overall job, if produced in-house,” Deley explains, while “outside jobs offer us the ability to gain even if we didn’t receive the initial printing order.”
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