Converters and plastics printers who handle applications involving expensive core stocks or similarly high-priced laminate films can now significantly cut material waste costs by adding the newly released Spartanics Smart Laminator-Die Cut System to their operations. The state-of-art machine intelligence of the Spartanics Smart Laminator-Die Cut System tightly synchronizes roll lamination and die cutting operations such that the typical causes of stock and laminate production waste are eliminated.