Paperstone have over 10 years specialist experience in selling a wide range of over 20 types of hot seal laminators. Brands stocked include GBC, Rexel and Ibico.

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Hot Seal Laminator

Hot seal laminators gently apply heat to a plastic pouch as it rolls through the laminator sealing the sides and laminating the paper. Paperstone’s heat seal laminators can seal paper from as small as A7 up to large A2 sheets.

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Laminator

A laminator is a machine used to seal documents in a plastic pouch to ensure that they are durable, waterproof and protected from continuous use. Documents that might require lamination include ID cards, display cards, public announcements and documents placed in kitchens or bathrooms. A laminator seals a plastic pouch around the original paper or card document.

hot vs cold lamination

Cold lamination uses rollers to secure a self adhesive pouch around a piece of paper or card. Whilst cold laminators are cheaper initially they are more expensive to run as the cold lamination pouches are considerably more expensive.

uses for a laminator

As well as the uses stated above, laminators have been used to seal historical documents in plastic to protect them from ageing. such lamination is more common with documents from 150 to 250 years ago, as older documents are too fragile for lamination, and younger documents are usually already effectively filed safely.

how to use a laminator

A laminator uses heat to seal the lamination (plastic pouch) around the document. To begin lamination, the laminator must be primed (allowed to pre-heat). While this is happening, it is common to prepare the document for lamination, by placing it in the plastic pouch. Larger documents to be laminated may not use a pouch, but instead be placed between two sheets of plastic. Once the laminator is ready, the prepared document (and surrounding plastic) is placed inside and the laminator is closed around it for a few seconds while the plastic is fused.

Types of Laminator

There are two types of laminator - pouch laminators (described above) and roll laminators (which uses sheets or rolls of plastic to laminate large documents). Lamination pouches can be supplied in a range of sizes. Rolls of plastic sheeting are also available for roll laminators.

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