Full featured 25" roll laminator designed for a professional production environment.Ideal for copy shops, printers, in plant print shops and for use in medium and large sized organizations.Offers
mounting capabilities for use with 3/16" mounting boards including
sintra, foam core, etc. Ca
Overview:
Full featured 25" roll laminator designed for a professional production environment.
Ideal for copy shops, printers, in plant print shops and for use in medium and large sized organizations.
Takes lamination to the next level to allow for cold laminating, mounting, encapsulating and more.
Features / Strengths:
Offers
mounting capabilities for use with 3/16" mounting boards including
sintra, foam core, etc. Can be used with hot mount adhesive or with
pretreated boards.
Can be used with a wide assortment of hot laminating films including 1.5mil, 1.7mil, 3mil, 5mil, and 10mil thicknesses.
Adjustable
speed and temperature settings give you full ability to adjust for
varying material thickness, film types and other factors.
Comes
standard with 1" core adaptors. However, 2.25" core adapters are
available for specialty films that are not available on a 1" core.
Integrated core adapter
Limitations / Weaknesses:
Can not accept laminating film on a 3" core. This limits the availability of some specialty films that only come on 3" cores.
It
can be more difficult to configure and master this type of roll
laminator than a typical school laminator or a simpler machine. This
machine does a lot of things and that makes it a little bit more
complicated and can take a little bit of work to learn.
This
laminator can only laminate documents up to 25 inches wide. If you need
to deal with wide format posters or other items you will need to choose
a larger machine.
Like all roll laminators, this machine can
be somewhat difficult to load. However, once you have done it a few
times it gets a lot easier.
Construction:
Plastic sides with metal feed tray and components.
Generally
does not require a lot of service. However, you need to be careful
around the rollers and should not attempt to clean them with sharp
objects or to laminate items with glitter, 3D objects or other
materials that can damage the rollers.
If you are not careful
it is possible to load this laminator backwards causing the film to
wrap around the rollers and creating a big mess.
Recommendation:
This
machine is a great starting point for a printer, copy shop or in plant
print shop that wants to be able to do multiple types of lamination.
For the largest users there are faster more versatile laminators on the market. However, they also cost a lot more.
Offers a great set of features for its price range and comes with the GBC name and 90 days of on site warranty service.
This review was written by Jeff McRitchie who is the director of marketing for Mybinding.com.
Jeff has written more than three hundred articles and more than two
hundred reviews on Binding Machines, Binding Supplies, Report Covers,
3-Ring Binders, Index Tabs, Laminators, Laminating Supplies, Paper
Shredders and Paper Handling Equipment.
