When we receive a job, we are usually able to easily identify the print grip and side lay edges so that we can ensure that these are not overhung by film that could give register or handling problems in the next process. On some sheets these edges are not easy for us to identify, so it is always useful to mark them. This becomes crucially important if we are spot varnishing a job for you.

Margins for lamination should be a minimum 5mm on side lay and back edges and a minimum 10mm on the grip edge.

Work that has been trimmed to a finished size cannot be laminated, but it can be rollercoat varnished or indeed spot varnished if the images fall within the body of the sheet without bleeding and there is enough room for us to take a 15mm grip. This grip edge may be slightly marked.

It is common for larger sheets (B1 or SRA1) to be printed work and turn and then sent to us for spot varnishing as a half sheet (B2 or SRA2). Unless care is taken during splitting of the sheet it is easy to loose register on the half sheet opposite the side lay. It is also crucial to keep the two resulting sheets separate and to identify them as cut A and B.

If two badly cut sheets are mixed it becomes impossible for any subsequent process to maintain register.

Please leave at least a 20mm gutter between the two halves of the sheet.

If the work and turn job involves both matt lamination and spot U.V. varnishing, it is sometimes preferable to leave the sheet unsplit and to strip laminate on two sides followed by spot varnishing on two sides. Please discuss this option with your local factory.

If this option is chosen it is most important that the laminated areas of the sheet falls on the face side of half sheet B and the reverse side of half sheet A. This will allow us to laminate and separate the sheets automatically without resort to hand work.