Cropping Laminated Documents?

[weyland-yutani]

Has anyone used these guillotine/rotary trimmers to trim laminated documents, cards, files etc?

A4 Rotary paper trimmer 10 sheets: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products
A4 Guillotine 10 sheet: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products

are they suitable for my needs or would the plastic be too thick? i have about 500 laminates that need trimming.

thanks

[loz]

not specifically those models, but yes I have cropped laminated documents in our rotary trimer (Dahler) without problems.

The common case is you print something on A4 paper, but the item is smaller and so you need to trim it down to size.

So we print on A4, laminate with A4 pouch, and then trim it with the rotary.


It says up to 10 sheets in the one you linked to, so I would think that is plenty enough for a normal laminated piece.

I guess you can compare 10 sheets of paper to one of the items you want to trim? Is it thinner?

[deckingman]

Does this work? I thought laminating only sealed around the edges. If you chop off the edge, won't the thing just fall apart?

[Minx]

Originally Posted by weyland-yutani

Has anyone used these guillotine/rotary trimmers to trim laminated documents, cards, files etc?

A4 Rotary paper trimmer 10 sheets: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products
A4 Guillotine 10 sheet: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products

are they suitable for my needs or would the plastic be too thick? i have about 500 laminates that need trimming.

thanks

Our kids have got the Rotary trimmer, the only problem you get with it is if you try to trim to many sheets at once (depends on thickness) the wheel can jump up and get wedged on the paper and you have to prise it back down, or it can drag along the paper (if you try to do to many at once) making it ragged. They have trimmed laminated sheets but only one at a time. It will only cut a certain thickness of card and they haven't had much success at cutting 10 sheets of paper at once.

The Guillotine although I haven't used that particular one might suit your needs best, they tend to allow more thickness to be cut than the trimmer.

Which ever you decide on good luck with doing the 500 sheets.

[Minx]

Originally Posted by deckingman

Does this work? I thought laminating only sealed around the edges. If you chop off the edge, won't the thing just fall apart?

Depends whether you do cold laminating/self seal or pouch laminating on a machine that heats up.

Cold laminating/self seal tends to just stick to the paper so has a chance of coming away. If you use the machine (hot) it actually bonds to the paper so tends not to fall apart if done properly.

[loz]

Originally Posted by deckingman

Does this work? I thought laminating only sealed around the edges. If you chop off the edge, won't the thing just fall apart?

Nope. Not if you are using the right stuff...

None of ours have so far.
Ours are all made by Dahle

[weyland-yutani]

thanks for the replies, guys.

Originally Posted by deckingman

Does this work? I thought laminating only sealed around the edges. If you chop off the edge, won't the thing just fall apart?

i'm only trimming excess laminate away. if you laminate an A5 card inside an A4 pouch for example, you'd have excess laminate to remove.