Xyron s EZ Laminator occupies a place on the lower volume, small office, home, and craft end of the laminating world. Cold laminating has many inherent advantages for the occasional user in that it is safe, fast, and very easy to learn. In the following review we take a quick look at the EZ Laminator and present you with a list of what we consider to be this machines strengths, as well as its limitations.
Strengths:
1. We were pleased to find that he EZ Laminator is a very easy machine to use. All you need to do in order to achieve great lamination is to place the document into the feed and crank the handle. In this process, there is no need for heat, batteries, or even electricity.
2. When it s time to change or replace the laminating film, all you need to do is to left the lid and change out the cartridge. We were pleasantly surprised at how easy the cartridges were to access and change. The cartridges also have an alert system that lets users know when the time to change it is near.
3. We found the EZ Laminator to be a remarkably versatile laminating system. The cartridges are interchangeable and let the user change laminating styles very quickly and easily. For instance, there are cartridges for laminating items on both sides or for laminating one side while applying adhesive to the other side. Plus, it is all cold laminating and that means that there is no danger of suffering any kind of burn while changing out the cartridges or working with the laminator in any way.
4. With the EZ Laminator it is also possible to trim your laminated documents right in the machine, or the user can take out the cutting tray and trim the items by hand if that is more convenient.
Weaknesses:
1. The nine inch width of the EZ Laminator is a pretty decent capacity for a machine like this. However, if you are going to need to laminate documents that are wider than nine inches, you will have to look elsewhere. Investing in a machine that is twelve inches wide will not only allow you to laminate larger format documents, it will also enable you to increase your productivity by more than twenty percent over a nine inch laminator.
2. As it is operated manually, the EZ Laminator is probably not the best choice for any kind of high volume or longer run laminating jobs. Ideally, this machine will be used for home or small office projects, such as scrapbooking and other crafts. This is a great machine for occasional use and is not cut out for producing thousands of documents or prints.
3. Encapsulation and sticker creation cartridges are available for this machine. However, those are the only two tasks that this machine is able to perform. Xyron makes other cold laminating machines that can create finished products in matte laminate, with multi use adhesive, and there are also some machines that can create magnets. If these are features you think you might want, you should probably take a look at some of Xyron s other, more feature rich machines.
Author Resource:
Jeff McRitchie is the designer and Director of Marketing for http://www.mybinding.com .He has written over 500 articles on binding machines,binding covers,binders,laminators,binding supplies,laminating supplies,paper handling equipments,index tabs, and shredders.
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