pre glued edgebanding | Festool Owners Group

I am looking for recommendations for pre glued edge banding.  I have run a cabinet shop and all my experience is with unglued banding, but now having sold the business and the edge-bander I want to do a few small jobs. I will just be ironing it on for now, but I am looking at a small machine to apply and trim if it looks like I will be doing enough of it.

I see that you can get pvc preglued banding, but don't know if that can be ironed on. I think the machine heats the back of the banding like the Lasers do but using hot air instead of the laser, so thicker banding may be an option.  For now, I am using .5 mm stuff.

My sales rep tells me the laser banders are falling out of favour, so that may reduce the preglued options in the future?

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Gerry So I think this post from Woodweb answers my question.
https://www.woodweb.com/forum_fdse_files/cabinetmaking/.html

The relevant part says;
"Bob- I'm happy to introduce myself and share my knowledge on this topic as well. I have worked as a maintenance technician since both employed as a maintenance technician or maintenance manager and as an independent technician working on every brand and type of machine out there. Salesmen typically think anything their machine has on it is a great idea, simply because they don't "know" what they "don't know". The factories manufacturing the machinery we are using are typically in Europe or Asia. Hot air may have been a hot thing for a short period of time in Europe but the demand has waned. There was a lot of money spent on R&D and the inability to offer anything else has kept it alive in the minds of salesmen here in the U.S. When it was first developed, hot air was marketed as a way for companies to achieve a better edge without investing a lot of money into a laser but there are several insurmountable issues with hot air that have turned users away from it.
1. Coextruded edgebanding is expensive and you typically have to buy large quantities.
2. If you aren’t using coextruded edgebanding you are using pre-glued edgebanding and the finish looks worse than a glue pot machine.
3. Hot air lacks versatility. Veneers, HPL, and hardwood edges are not coextruded, and you simply won’t pre-glue these if you are looking for an invisible glue joint. Most end up using the gluepot far more than they use the hot air.
4. Hot air is loud and an annoyance to employees
5. Hot air machines use large amounts of compressed air and shops often find they need to upgrade their compressor to a larger size to accommodate the increased cfm requirements on their systems.
Laser is a much better alternative, but it is expensive and once again limited to coextruded edgebanding.

So I guess in the end it was wishful thinking on my part about a preglued option that is viable.

If wishes were horses beggars would ride

Thanks for the input.

Gerry