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All American Laminating
As consumers today are searching for more local and American made products, laminating machines and other laminating equipment has been difficult to find. However, we’ve managed to locate several different types of laminating machines, laminators and additional laminating equipment that is produced and sold right here in the United States of America.
Our favorite laminator/laminating provider is Lloyds of Indiana, Inc. They offer a wide range of American made laminators and have an excellent selection of American educational laminators both heated (thermal) and pouch types of laminating machines. Below is just a small a summary of what lloydsofindiana.com offers for competitive, American laminating machines and American laminating solutions.
American Pouch Laminators
Banner American PL4A Pouch Laminator
The Banner American PL4 pouch laminator is ideal for laminating ID cards and badges, membership cards, luggage tags, etc. Laminate up to 4″ wide and as thick as 10 mil pouches! The PL4 Features a 4 roller system to provide the highest quality laminating results. Easy to operate and a short warm up time make this laminating machine one of the best selling pouch laminators. The PL4 has been the consumer choice for many years.
Banner American PL135-4 Pouch Laminator
The PL135-4 pouch laminator is perfect for laminating ID cards and badges, membership cards, luggage tags, etc. In addition to cards,The Banner American PL135-4 will laminate larger documents up to 12″ x 18″, or A3 in size.
American Heated/Roll/Educational Laminators
Banner American Entry 4500
The ENTRY 4500 Laminating and Mounting machine is the ideal laminator for large-format imaging services. The ENTRY 4500 is capable of mounting, laminating and encapsulating output from 36″, 42″ and 44″ inkjet printers. Affordable and functional, the ENTRY 4500 is loaded with features important in giving you the highest level of results for each and every project.
The ENTRY 4500 Laminating/Mounting machine offers carefully designed features intended to quickly get you up and profitably running without the added expense of more advanced machines. The easy-to-use design makes the operator’s job simpler.
25″ Ledco Educator Laminator
The 25″ Ledco Educator laminator 110V / 220V is designed for teachers to protect and enhance posters, dry erase charts, flash cards, bulletin board graphics, games, visuals and teaching aids of all kinds.
The Ledco Educator offers simplified controls to help eliminate many common errors often associated with complicated thermal laminators. With added options for use with 1.5 mil, 3 mil and 5 mil the Ledco Educator laminator 110V / 220V is designed to handle and produce a multitude of projects with ease for the many requirements that face today’s teachers.
For more American made laminating machines, laminating equipment or laminators; or for any American made binding machines, American uv coaters and supplies or other print finishing needs please visit lloydsofindiana.com and review their “Made in America” section of their web site.
UV Coating for the WIN!
The True Benefits of UV Coating & UV Coaters
The Quality is in the Coating…
Using uv coating on your printed products allows for colors to become more vibrant and rich. For example, all of your printed materials with blues or blacks in them will allow for a nearly wet-like appearance. Coating your products with a uv coater is one of the most effective (and efficient) ways to create beautiful, finely finished products.
Document Mailing without the Damage…
Do you print a lot of products that are mailed for your customers? Well, as your customer’s documents travel from post office to post man to post man to post office to their consumers, the document may become damaged or warped or even destroyed as it makes its journey. Using uv coating on your printed documents provides durable, damage-resistant products without lacking any visual appearance! Additionally, products that are uv coated are resistant to smudging and marking which allows for not only your customers professional presentations to look great, but yours as well.
Go Green, Stay Clean…
With regulation worries, an over taxation applying, uv coating provides an outlet for business owners to print and finish responsibly. UV coatings are free of solvents and do not emit volatile organic compounds, or VOCs when cured. This basically means 2 things:
1 – You’ll get a great PR value with not only your current customers (and the general public), but you’ll also get a distinct marketing edge as well for presenting to newer clients.
2 – You are taking the correct steps to help save the environment, and going green is staying clean.
Finishing your printed products with a uv coating system has now become more efficient than ever. ‘And with the overall high-quality, fast output of a uv coaters, uv coating has never been easier.
Watch the video below to see just how fast (without lacking any quality) uv coating is…
Printing Types vs. Protective Mediums
There are as many ways to print your photos as there are photos themselves, and likewise, nearly as many ways to preserve them. Ink jet and dye sublimation, as well as traditional methods of printing photos will each benefit from some form of protection from the elements. Sunlight, chemicals like the acid residue found on most papers and temperature extremes can cause pictures to fade, discolor.
Coatings can be applied to the finished photo, which will put a well distributed coating of a chemical base on the surface of your photograph , which dries to a thin film to protect your photograph. The protective film is not thick enough to protect the photo against water damage or acid residue, but provides a degree of protection against fingerprints and ultraviolet damage.
Albums also provide reasonable protection for photos – so long as they are stored in a temperature controlled, dry place.. Albums provide great protection with acid free paper and thin film pages, but do not protect against humidity or water damage.
For the ultimate in protection, consider laminating your photographs. Lamination protects against high light, humidity, chemicals, fingerprints (you can actually wash a laminated picture with soap and water) and nearly any other environmental factor. Laminating works by encasing the photo in a transparent plastic shell. The degree of protection provided by photo laminating can be adjusted by altering the thickness of the laminate used.
The supplies necessary to protect your photographic memories with lamination are minimal. Usually all it takes is a pouch laminating machine, and special photo pouches. Photo laminating pouches such as LoydsofIndiana.com’s PhotoPouch brand are specially sized and formulated to work with traditional photograph prints as well as inkjet, laser prints and dye sublimation prints. PhotoPouches will protect your professional or personal quality photographs, are easy to use and provide for your photos protection at a cost that is more than reasonable for home or business use. Laminating machines can be purchased which will coat and seal photographs up to 13 inches in width. The machines themselves are easy to use.
The cost to laminate your photos will be about 10 cents per photo, which seems a very small price to pay for the peace of mind you get back knowing your business or home photos are protected from the elements that might damage or destroy them. In comparison to losing the photo of a lifetime, or losing critical photographic evidence makes that 10 cent investment seem tiny.
PhotoPouch brand laminating pouches are exclusively available from Lloyd’s of Indiana (www.lloydsofindiana.com) and select distributors. Lloyd’s can provide for your laminating needs with machinery and photo pouch supplies, purchased from an easy to search web site which will keep track of your cumulative orders and any discounts you may have coming, to assure that not only your photos are protected, but so is your time.
Document Mailing Equipment
As direct mailing has become one of the most effective ways to market during the holiday season, lloydsofindiana.com is proud to extend their line of document mailing equipment. Starting now, you can completely over-haul your mail marketing from start to finish–automate and simplify your mailings with an inserter, document folder, or a pressure sealer. lloydsofindiana.com saves time and money by speeding up your mail processing. Be sure to browse their quick, handy document signers as well.
Document Folders
Fold thousands of sheets of paper per hour with our tabletop or floor model automatic document folders. Every office that mails statements, invoices, marketing material and other printed documents can use a folder. Folding machines are easy to setup and easy to operate. Simplify your office today!
For a full list of Document Folders offered by lloydsofindiana.com click here.
Document Inserters
Our document inserters let you quickly stuff envelopes and prepare mass mailings. Our letter inserters and document inserters are perfect for light, medium and heavy duty use.
For a full list of Document Inserters offered by lloydsofindiana.com click here.
Envelope Openers
Automate the tedious task of opening incoming mail with the Formax FD 450 automatic letter opener. The Formax FD 450 reliably operates at speeds of up to 300 envelopes per minute. One side of the envelope is slit so that the contents are left undamaged with no messy paper scraps to clean up. This increases work flow and ensures document integrity.
To learn more information about the Formax FD 450 please click here.
Pressure Sealers
Increase Your Productivity And Your Reduce Labor Cost!!
Lloyd’s of Indiana offers pressure sealers for quick mailing solutions. Fold and seal at the same time with a pressure sealer. Our pressure seal folder sealer machines reduce post processing time by folding and sealing documents into mail ready pieces. No need to use envelopes. Manual or machine steps required to fold, seal, stuff and stamp mail pieces into an envelope are completely eliminated. Pressure seal folder sealer machines are used in conjunction with pressure sensitive forms to create self mailing forms and documents ready for the mail.
For a full list of Pressure Sealers exclusively at lloydsofindiana.com click here.
Document Signers
Document signers apply a signature to a letter that is nearly indistinguishable from a real signature.
For a full list of document signers click here.
Need paper cutters, trimmers, drills, joggers or shredders? lloydsofindiana.com is your one stop resource for all paper handling equipment.
SECTION 179 TAX ALERT
Dec 1, 2011 Important 4th quarter tax planning implications – to take advantage of the incentives, you must act by the end of this month. Both the ‘Tax Relief Act of 2010′ as well as the ‘Jobs Act of 2010′ that passed in late 2010 affected Section 179 in a positive way for this 2011 tax year. The newest changes are as follows:
- The Section 179 Deduction limit increased to $500,000.
- The total amount of equipment that can be purchased increased to $2 million. This includes most new and used capital equipment, and also includes certain software.
- “Bonus Depreciation” increased to 100% on qualified assets. However, this can be taken on new equipment only.
When applying these provisions, Section 179 is generally taken first, followed by Bonus Depreciation – unless the business has no taxable profit in 2011.
Also, many businesses find Section 179 Qualified Financing to be an attractive option in 2011.
- What is Section 179?
- What equipment qualifies for the Section 179 Deduction?
- Any difference between Section 179 & Bonus Depreciation?
- Can I lease equipment and still qualify for Section 179?
- Does software qualify for Section 179?
- What impact did all the Stimulus Acts have on Section 179?
- How do I elect to take the Section 179 Deduction?
For additional information about Sect 179 please visit www.Section179.org.
Lloyd’s of Indiana, Inc. is a supplier of graphic finishing products including laminating, binding, paper handling and other finishing equipment. We offer a complete line of printers, supplies and accessories for identification and Id badge printing.
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