Xyron ezLaminator, 9" Laminator, Laminating Machine (624672)

I'm a teacher and I laminate many activities for my students. Not only does it look nice but they actually last longer! This small cold press laminator is great for small things! It can hold 5 inch or up to 9 inch items in width depending ingredients on what size cartridge you install. The cartridges are fairly priced as well. Those heat laminator that you have to feel the pouches takes too much time. With this laminator, all you do it insert your paper and turn the crank and watch it come out the other side - laminated. Then cut it off! I love it! So small and compacted easy to put away and take out. Does what it is intended to do!

easy to use and load intial material will always crumble.

Objective review: The ezLaminator fails at every level. The rolls are not aligned properly in the cartridge, causing a litany of issues, and cannot be adjusted. One of the problems the cartridge causes is huge ripples and folds. I had to expend over two feet of laminate from both rolls before the ripples flattened out, and then they just came back after another 6 inches. Another issue with the cartridge is the teeth that your material must slide under. If you are working with anything delicate like I am, these teeth scratch the surface, causing irreversible damage. That's a major problem, because lamination is one of the final steps in many projects. Prepare to lose all of your hardwork because of this tool. The laminate itself provided with this tool is no good. It is highly defective, containing huge bubbles and the adhesive had already begun to cure inside those bubbles long before I even received the product. This means those bubbles are permanent - they cannot be smoothed out. Another reviewer had mentioned that the bubbles would go away after a while, but even after 24 hours they are still here for me. It's more than just a bubble, because there's a white ring in each one - that's cured adhesive. It also seems they either gave me the wrong cartridge or listed the incorrect thickness. It's advertised as 3mil, but this is actually more like 10mil. I have actual 3mil sheets and they are significantly thinner than these. As for the tool itself, the only problem is the attached sliding blade. The blade isn't actually long enough to cut even just the laminate on its own, and it also doesn't index far enough to cut the entire length of the platform. Basically, if your material is not centered and shorter than 10 inches, then the laminate will not cover the entire thing AND the blade won't cut it off completely, making the guides on the sides of the platform completely meaningless and indeed more of a hazard, because using either of them will 100% of the time result in failure. Subjective review: It's not uncommon that when you buy something strange like this on the internet, it might not work. There's always a gamble, and I lost this one. You really can't use this thing to laminate anything. Instead of a "laminator", it should really be called a "project destroyer". The only use for this is to absolutely wreck whatever you're making. So I guess if you're trying to make ugly, useless junk, then this is the right tool for you!

It is super easy to use I love the laminate a magnet. I did photos, report cards and stick them on my fridge. I will tell anyone and encourage everyone to have this Machine at home.

It has a lot of positives! You don't need the pesky pouches You don't need to plug it in easy to change out the laminate easy to store cutting blade is great the negatives You need to seal around the edges well, with your nail or something of whatever you laminate and be careful when you cut because it does unseal if you get to close. Because it doesn't use heat the seal isn't as strong. I was excited about the magnet laminate, but was disappointed because 1... you can't cut to the edge because it unseals, but you can see the magnet behind the picture, which maybe only bugs me!

Works great. Thin and flexible weight that I like for certain projects. If you are intending to use it to laminate workbook pages etc for your kids to use over and over again, Dry erase markers do NOT work as well on the plastic as I'd like. 3-ring-punched Plastic sleeves (bought at any office supply store) do a better job for that. Still, I have found MANY reasons to use this machine and I like it. I have had problems with wrinkles from time to time, and as another reviewer suggested, running a piece of card stock paper through it really does straighten it right out again. Overall, I think is was well worth the price.

This is perfect for quick jobs. Have not tried the magnet paper but the laminate is good and sticks. Oth sides so you can trip right to the edges

Bought to use at home. Compact size. Love it.