Cool Touch Laminators

Laminators are no longer only for use in printing offices or large corporates. A number of people today are opting for home laminators that help them protect and preserve any essential paper product. Even schools today opt for laminating all the beautiful projects, books and artwork that children make. Here are some of the uses of a laminator.

Desk top laminators and their uses

If you have a home office, a desk top laminator is a useful addition to it. You can use lamination sheets and laminate even projects that are as big as 9 x 12. Some of these are the cool touch laminators that are safe for use by children since the outside remains cool to the touch. The laminated project also comes out of the system cool so their little hands can pick them up right away!

Here are some things that you can easily laminate at home:
1. Paper cards with recipes on them
2. Your social security card or any other ID.
3. Any other essential document like your marriage license or a birth certificate.
4. A bookmark can be laminated
5. Studying aids for children like flash cards
6. Chores for family members can be laminated on a schedule chart
7. Placemats made at home for children
8. Photos can be laminated for preservation
9. Contact numbers and a checklist for the babysitter
10. Any other paper you want to preserve like a poem, list or quotations.

You can use the cool touch laminator for a number of business applications as well. Laminate phone lists or business cards. If you use a lot of supplies at your home office, an inventory list or documentation of any procedure can be laminated and recorded in a monthly fashion.

Industrial laminator

The industrial laminators are larger in size and can take huge rolls of laminating film allowing you to laminate foot over foot of durable plastics. These laminators are extra wide too so you can accommodate bigger projects. If you have a printing business, you can laminate printed material for your customers on these industrial laminators. These could be anything from books to menus to charts. In order to give a lasting seal, these laminators use high heat.

Use your laminator efficiently

If you are wondering if a laminator is worth it or not, consider the fact that you could lump all your small projects together to save money and time. For instance, if you have a number of small photographs that you want to laminate; place as many as will fit onto a sheet that is 9x 12 in size and send these together throught the laminator. Make sure you leave enough space in between to enable a strong seal.

When you begin to trim your laminated paper, make sure to leave about 1/8” so that the seal stays intact. This ensures that your laminated project stays preserved for a longer time.

When you set out to purchase a laminator, make sure you pick a size that is at least one size larger than your current project requiring lamination. You can group smaller items together but you will never be able to laminate any project that is bigger than the machine itself!