Helping
you choose a laminator
Use
this handy guide to help you make the right choice of laminator
for your specific needs. Asking yourself these questions will
help to ensure that the machine you purchase best suits your requirements.
Make sure you take into consideration all the aspects shown.
Alternatively
of course, you can call one of our advisers on 0844 8009928
for assistance.
How
would you best describe your daily usage?
Light
Duty - Personal Usage, up to 5 times a month, a Home Office
or SOHO (small
office home office) machine should be adequate for your needs.
Medium
Duty - up to 5 times a week, an Office
laminator would be best suited to your needs.
Heavy
Duty - up to 30 uses per day, a Heavy-Duty
machine is strongly recommended for this number of uses.
Intensive
- 30+ uses per day, constant daily usage, a Professional
machine is essential in these circumstances
What
is the maximum pouch thickness you are likely to use?
Check
carefully the maximum thickness of pouch that your machine can
cope with, as this will limit the maximum thickness you can use
in future. Typically, most documents will get a good level of
protection with a pouch of up to 125 microns per side. Commercial,
industrial or professional applications will require pouches of
a greater thickness for maximum protection and an appropriate
machine will be needed to take these pouches.
What
is the maximum size of the documents you are going to laminate?
An
ID (or A6) laminator is just that - a machine that will not take
a pouch any bigger than A6. The same applies to our A4, A3 and
A2 machines. If in any doubt that you may occasionally need to
laminate documents bigger than the standard size you typically
laminate, then go for a machine that will enable you to handle
this. As a guide, most people need to laminate A4 paper (normal
size copier paper) almost all the time but also need to process
A3 occasionally. This means that the trend in sales is towards
A3 machines, which enables people to deal with these two key sizes.
Of
course, if your requirements are even more flexible, such as wide
format or long lengths then you should look at one of the roll
laminators or commercial laminators in our Professional
section.
Do
you need to laminate photos?
All
the A4 and A3 laminators we offer can handle photos.
