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Kaz;24489 wrote:I do :-)

Just leave them like that for a while, my OH is glad I've found something useful to do with them, lol

I'll have to nick someone's Next directories, then..! :biggrin:
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Now I have a dilema!

Do I bite the bullet and continue to have slightly warped placemats ......

or

.... do I tell the missis that I need her catalogue books to which I will be inundated with 'see, told you they were worth having ...' comments!
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I need to do some of these coasters for an order I have but I'm getting a little confused.

Years ago I attended the print/promo at the NEC and saw a sublimation demo at a NovaChrome stand. They were making mugs and coasters and I recieved these hot off the press - there was no warping at all on the coaster - non, and they were doing these all day. I know this because I went back and snaffled another coaster and mug .:biggrin: they were Ratatouille after all and were for the kids. :redface:

Is it only the BMS ones that warp or do they all warp or is there another type of coaster I should be looking at?

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John i use BMS coasters and they don`t warp here, but yes the placemats have a slight warp nothing too extreme
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John G;24498 wrote:Is it only the BMS ones that warp or do they all warp or is there another type of coaster I should be looking at?

From what I've experienced, if it's UniSub it'll warp. The cheaper wooden coasters don't warp. Whatever causes the warping, it's whatever UniSub make their products out of. I wonder why they haven't addressed the warping in all these years?
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Ah, mine aren't unisub ones, maybe that's why they go flat again
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Kaz;24501 wrote:Ah, mine aren't unisub ones, maybe that's why they go flat again
where do you get yours from Kaz?
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It's the placemats that warp not the coasters on unisub as far as is noticeable anyway. It's down to the thermocoupling of 2 materials that react differently under heat when expanding/cooling.
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JSR;24500 wrote:From what I've experienced, if it's UniSub it'll warp. The cheaper wooden coasters don't warp. Whatever causes the warping, it's whatever UniSub make their products out of. I wonder why they haven't addressed the warping in all these years?
The smaller wooden coasters we sell are cut from UniSub board!
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bms;24511 wrote:The smaller wooden coasters we sell are cut from UniSub board!

Are you talking about these ones - http://www.printerowners.co.uk/sublimat ... asters.htm ? Because they don't look like UniSub board. They're much darker, and the printable side is far more fragile and easier to chip than the UniSub ones.

I have a couple of your previous type before these "cheap" ones came along, and I could believe that they might have come from UniSub board because they were much better quality.
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