Crenova 13 Inch A3 Laminator Machine,Hot and Cold Settings,with Laminating Sheets Pouches,Paper Trimmer, for Home Office School

Great for keeping things from getting ruined.

The media could not be loaded. This laminator is the one I should have bought from the beginning. The wide portion of it makes it easy to use and you don't have to be as precise as you do with a smaller one. You can put a piece of laminating film in it sideways and it'll come out on the other end looking great. It's quiet. It does hot and cold which I don't know what the cold is for but who cares. Just get it.

This is my 1st laminator, so I didn't really know what to expect, as I've never laminated anything before either. It turned out to be quite simple. Just switched the button to "Hot", then a green light started blinking. Once the green light turned solid, I started laminating. I had a few dozen business cards and some certificates which I wanted laminated. I put a business card in a pouch (I used Apache Laminating Pouches, 5 mil, Business Card Size) , centered it, then inserted the closed end into the front of the machine. After about 10 seconds, the laminated card came out of the back of the machine. Then I just repeated the process, until I was finished. When I was done, I ran a sheet of copy paper through the unit to possibly clean any glue that may have gotten on the rollers. Overall, the unit ran perfectly. Super clear and no bubbles in the plastic whatsoever. I'm very pleased with this machine so far.I chose this Crenova laminator mostly because I wanted 13" and didn't want one with a paper cutter attached to the top of the machine. I figured if I needed a good paper cutter, I'd rather get one separately. The paper cutter which came with this works OK, but it's really not meant for heavy usage. You can only cut one thing at a time. It will cut through 5 mil laminate nicely, but if I had a lot of stuff to cut, then I'd probably want to use a guillotine-style paper cutter. Max size for this paper cutter is just 12" also, which is fine for my purposes. The corner rounder works OK too. It cuts through the 5 mil laminate cleanly. Another selling point was that this machine came with 25 pouches also (size: 5 A3, 5 A4, 5 A5, and 10 A6). So that saved me from buying more pouches, other than the business card-sized pouches which I needed.

Works nice I use for my check lists if you have eraseable markers just clear check marks and they are ready to use again. Has saved having to reprint lists over and over.

I've had this for 2+ years and it is simple and works great. It has laminated countless pages without issues. I purchased this model to be able to laminate 11"x17", and it does that well.

I am using the laminator for prepping materials for summer camp.- heats up quickly (but give it a couple more minutes to warm up well so the laminator pouch sticks better together or bubbles can be created)- the machine itself is light and easy to carry around- comes with nice accessories, like curving tool for the corners, a small paper cutter, and a hole puncher.- the laminator is wide for projects that might be wider than the standard A4 width.

I think we know most teachers have their own laminator. Not sure about you, but our school laminator is on the fritz half the time or out of plastic, or sometimes I just need to laminate a little something fast and don't want to wait an hour for the big one to heat up. Well, I love that this one is a bit larger than other personal laminators. With my previous laminator, I'd have to make sure to put things in straight because there wasn't much wiggle room and I'd end up with wrinkly messes.

Worked great the maybe 10 times I used it then right after the 1 yr warranty expires, I used it and one got stuck and burned so I used abs to release and it started smoking and not working right. Literally smoking. Contacted the company several days ago and 0 response