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FOR USE BY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL ONLY
Congratulations!
Your selection of the Insta Graphic Systems heat
seal machine is a sound business decision. Insta
equipment is the result of the highest quality
engineering and time-tested design. Your new
machine, combined with Insta’s reputation for
innovation in the heat-sealing field, ensures that
you will be able to deliver the best-decorated
substrates possible for years to come.
This manual provides the installation, operation,
and maintenance procedures for your 158P series
machine, as well as easy to follow instructions for
on-the-spot maintenance.
Your model 158P machine will have a long, trouble-
free life. Read this manual. Keep it with your
machine; it’s your key to proper operation and
lasting service.
General Description
The 158P is a manual clamp-shell machine capable
of generating tremendous pressures that is evenly
distributed across the area of the 16’’ x 20’’ platen.
The 158P machine also features a smooth,
automatic opening to prevent ghosting, and a
redesigned base to provide improved garment
dressability. The heating platen features a cast-in
tubular heating element that is coiled as densely as
possible to deliver rapid heating and constant, long-
lasting and uniform temperatures.
Limited Machine Warranty
Insta Graphic Systems warrants this heat seal
machine, when operated under normal conditions,
to be free from manufacturing defects in material
and workmanship for a period of one (1) year on
parts (lifetime on the heating element) and 90 days
on labor from the invoice date.
This warranty will be effective only when Insta
authorizes the original purchaser to return the
product to the factory in Cerritos, California, freight
prepaid, and only when the product upon
examination has proven to be defective.
This warranty does not apply to any machine that
has been subjected to misuse, negligence, or has
been damaged accidentally or intentionally.
Insta shall not be liable for the injury, loss, or
damage, directly or indirectly, arising from the use
or the inability to use the product.
No claim of any kind shall be greater in amount
than the sale price of the product or part to which
claim is made.
This is the sole warranty given by the company, IGS,
and is in lieu of any other warranties, expressed or
implied, in law or in fact, including the warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular use, and
is accepted as such by the purchaser in taking
delivery of this product.
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