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15 mil Polycarbonate Laminate
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Specifications
Dye· BESTPigment· BESTLatex· BESTUV· COMPATIBLEEco-Solvent· COMPATIBLESolvent· BEST3″ core
A rigid 15-mil frosted polycarbonate laminating film with a pressure-sensitive adhesive. ABAQA designed this gauge for trade show graphics stiff enough to hang with magnets directly on the metal frame of a booth. Rated BEST for aqueous dye, pigment, latex and solvent prints. Supplied in 51-inch rolls.
| Media type | Laminate & Overlaminate › Polycarbonate |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 15 mil |
| Core size | 3" core |
Available sizes
- 38" x 150' (3" core)
- 38" x 75' (3" core)
- 51" x 150' (3" core)
Overview
Built for the work
A rigid 15-mil frosted polycarbonate laminating film with a pressure-sensitive adhesive. ABAQA designed this gauge for trade show graphics stiff enough to hang with magnets directly on the metal frame of a booth. Rated BEST for aqueous dye, pigment, latex and solvent prints. Supplied in 51-inch rolls.
Expert analysis
What you should know
ABAQA 15 Mil Polycarbonate Laminate is the rigid member of ABAQA’s frosted polycarbonate laminating family — a pressure-sensitive PCVE film at 15 mil. The gauge is doing the work here. ABAQA states this film was designed for producing trade-show graphics that can be hung with magnets directly to the metal frame of a booth, which only works if the laminated panel is stiff enough to hold its own shape against gravity.
What ABAQA 15 Mil Polycarbonate Laminate is used for
- Trade show panels
- Museum exhibits
It is worth reading this gauge against its siblings, because ABAQA differentiates them by hanging method rather than by durability. The 5-mil film is the general-purpose frosted laminate and adds floor graphics to the list. The 10-mil is specified where panels are hung repeatedly with hook-and-loop tape on fabric booth walls. The 15-mil is the one that goes on a magnetic frame. Choose by how the panel attaches, not by how heavy you want it to feel.
Ink compatibility
As an overlaminate, its ratings describe the prints it can be applied over. Aqueous dye, aqueous pigment, latex and solvent are each rated BEST; UV-curable and eco-solvent are rated compatible. That covers effectively any wide-format press likely to produce a booth panel.
Working with it
The face is frosted, which controls glare on a panel that will sit under exhibition lighting. The adhesive is pressure-sensitive, so it applies on a cold-roll laminator. Supplied in a single 51-inch roll width on 3-inch cores — the practical ceiling on how wide a single laminated panel can be, so plan multi-panel booth graphics around it.
Specifications
Full technical detail
Printers this media fits
Checked against every wide-format printer we track: 73 can run it — HP 48 · Epson 17 · Canon 8. Compatibility is resolved from the printer’s published media handling (roll width, core size and the roll diameter the spindle holds), not from a marketing list.
The list starts from the maker’s own ink ratings for this media — rated BEST for Dye, Pigment, Latex, Solvent ink. A printer only appears here if its ink chemistry is one of those.
Printers we sell that take this media
Epson SureColor P6570DAll sizes fit
HP DesignJet Z6 ProAll sizes fit
HP DesignJet Z9+ ProAll sizes fit
HP Latex 630All sizes fit
HP Latex 630 WAll sizes fit
HP Latex 730All sizes fit
HP Latex 730 WAll sizes fit
HP Latex 800 WAll sizes fit
HP Latex 830All sizes fit
HP Latex 830 WAll sizes fitSizes to watch
- 38" × 150′ (3" core), 51" × 150′ (3" core) 150′ roll is about 6.6" thick — more than these printers' spindles hold 4 printers — e.g. Canon imagePROGRAF TM-240 Lm MFP, Epson Stylus Pro 7800, Epson Stylus Pro 9450
Check your printer
73 models
- Canon PRO-6100
- Canon imagePROGRAF GP-6600S
- Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100S
- Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-6000
- Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-6000S
- Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-6100S
- Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-6600
- Canon imagePROGRAF TM-240 Lm MFP
- Epson S8170
- Epson Stylus Pro 7800
- Epson Stylus Pro 9450
- Epson Stylus Pro 9800
- Epson SureColor P6570D
- Epson SureColor SC-P20000
- Epson SureColor SC-P6500D
- Epson SureColor SC-P8500DL
- Epson SureColor SC-S40600
- Epson SureColor SC-S40610
- Epson SureColor SC-S60600
- Epson SureColor SC-S60600L
- Epson SureColor SC-S60610
- Epson SureColor SC-S60610L
- Epson SureColor SC-S80600
- Epson SureColor SC-S80610L
- Epson SureColor SC-T5000 POS
- HP DesignJet 100
- HP DesignJet 130
- HP DesignJet Latex 280
- HP DesignJet Z6 Pro
- HP DesignJet Z6100
- HP DesignJet Z6200
- HP DesignJet Z6610
- HP DesignJet Z6800
- HP DesignJet Z6810
- HP DesignJet Z9+ Pro
- HP Latex 115
- HP Latex 1500
- HP Latex 2700 W
- HP Latex 3000
- HP Latex 3100
- HP Latex 315
- HP Latex 3200
- HP Latex 330
- HP Latex 335
- HP Latex 3500
- HP Latex 360
- HP Latex 3600
- HP Latex 365
- HP Latex 370
- HP Latex 375
- HP Latex 560
- HP Latex 570
- HP Latex 630
- HP Latex 630 W
- HP Latex 700
- HP Latex 700 W
- HP Latex 730
- HP Latex 730 W
- HP Latex 800 W
- HP Latex 820
- HP Latex 830
- HP Latex 830 W
- HP Latex FS50
- HP Latex FS50 W
- HP Latex FS60
- HP Latex FS60 W
- HP PageWide XL 8000
- HP Scitex FB550
- HP Scitex FB6700
- HP Scitex FB750
- HP Scitex TJ8300
- HP Scitex XP2750
- HP Scitex XP5300
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