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Composite Layup

Fujifilm Prescale® Film Placed Between Composite Layup Rollers

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Fujifilm Prescale® is a unique, affordable and easy to use tool that reveals the distribution and magnitude of surface contact pressure in your prepreg rollers and composites lamination press.

Fujifilm Prescale® sensor film reveals both pressure distribution and magnitude between contacting surfaces in a dramatic surface "map."

When placed in your nip rollers or platens of your lamination press, Fujifilm Prescale® instantaneously and permanently changes color in direct proportion to the pressure being applied. Conceptually similar to Litmus paper, the color Fujifilm Prescale® turns reveals the precise PSI level.

Have you ever needed to evaluate pressure or force between two touching or mating surfaces? Previously, your only alternatives were strain gauges and load cells, that are both time consuming and difficult to interface. Now with the advent of our disposable one-time use pressure film, Fujifilm Prescale®, evaluating surface contact pressure distribution and magnitude is accurate, quick and highly economical.

Benefits

  • Properly align rollers to ensure uniform resin application and fabric wet-out.
  • Detect and correct lamination press uniformity issues to reduce off-spec fiber content.
  • Prevent defects such as resin content inconsistency in the resin metering stage.
Pressure Film Type Code Alternative Code Pressure Range Order Now
Ultra Extreme Low 5LW UXL310 0.87 - 7.3 PSI (0.06 - 0.51 kg/cm2) Order Now
Extreme Low LLLLW / 4LW XL310 7.2 - 28 PSI (0.5 - 2 kg/cm2) Order Now
Ultra Low LLLW UL270 28 - 85 PSI (2 - 6 kg/cm2) Order Now
Super Low LLW SL270 70 - 350 PSI (5 - 25 kg/cm2) Order Now
Low LW L270 350 - 1,400 PSI (25 - 100 kg/cm2) Order Now
Medium MS M270 1,400 - 7,100 PSI (100 - 500 kg/cm2) Order Now
High HS H270 7,100 - 18,500 PSI (500 - 1,300 kg/cm2) Order Now
Super High HHS SH270 18,500 - 43,200 PSI (1,300 - 3,000 kg/cm2) Order Now
Physical Specifications
Operating Temperature 68°F - 95°F (20°C - 35°C) much higher for brief exposure
Humidity Range 20% to 90% RH
Gauge (Thickness) 4 - 20 mils
Spatial Resolution From 5 - 15 microns
Substrate Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)
Accuracy ± 10% visual, ± 2%
Utilizing optional optical measurement systems
Shelf Life 1 Year