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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.
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.
New Year, New Plans
As the holidays approach this season, many businesses are looking for that special gift of holiday spirit to send to their clients, business partners, employees and/or affiliates. However, finding that “special gift” has become increasingly more difficult as time progresses–and with a new year approaching, companies need a “special approach” to remain competitive, efficient and prepared for the new fiscal quarter (Q1 2012).
With the dawn of cloud-computing now in full swing (and with the over-commercialized use of the internet), many people feel as though society has become less involved, and less interactive on an offline-basis than in years previous…
When holiday seasons begin, businesses are asking themselves:
HOW CAN WE. . .
- Increase our production efficiency
- Expand our consumer awareness
- Improve our customer loyalty
- Maintain & Develop our business relationships
- Strengthen our strategy for the next fiscal year
Well, as people are moving away from the offline-basis of communications, hosting a corporate event may be the “special gift” your company needs. Providing a nominal, relaxed and seasonal event is an excellent way to boost overall business reputation and a great way to reward your hardworking team of hands. But why not go the extra step, why not surprise your employees, your loyal clients and your long standing business partners. With the new fiscal year approaching, and with the tax incentives of Section 179, your business has the potential to prepare well, in fact, so well you may change your nominal, seasonal corporate event into an astounding New Year’s Celebration.
However, to pull this off your going to need visit lloydsofindiana.com for all of your laminating, binding, paper handling and graphic finish needs, and then you may want to gather some invitations from GoPromoting.com to keep your event planning at its best. ‘And for the remainder of your party supplies, you may try a friendly, sociable store around your local area. Or you could just visit CustomPrintProducts.com for all of your specialty printed signs, banners and displays.
No matter what your plans are for this year’s events–time is still ticking–and great savings and Section 179 Advantages end this year! So hurry up and get your planning done, and finalize those year end sales, its your time for fun.
Wide Format Laminators and Dry Mounting Systems
Wide Format Laminators and Dry Mounting Systems
Wide format laminators are disigned for digital and inkjet printers. Banner American and Ledco manufacture wide format laminating equipment from 38″ to 60″ machines. If you own or operate a sign shop or digital reproduction facility a large format laminator for finishing and dry mounting your prints is a must.
Wide Format Laminators for digital printing
Laminate and dry mount trade show displays, signs, vehicle graphics and much more. Apply gloss, matte, and textured laminate. Wide format laminators are available that run hot (thermal) and cold (pressure sensitive) material and dual application. Quickly switch from thermal to pressure sensitive materials with the Ledco Digital 42 or 60 model without waiting for heat up or cool down time.
Five Tools Print Shops Can Use to Improve Profitability
You can run a print shop with an off-set press or a digital printer, but you can’t run a profitable shop unless you bring in-house the tools that will help you take projects to completion. It’s one thing to print pages, but what if your customer wants you to bind them? You printed 5,000 sales letters, but now the customer wants to take them somewhere else for mailing? You’re losing out on some valuable revenue by not having a couple extra machines around your office. Add extra profitability to your shop by offering each of these services.
- UV Coaters. Adding a UV Coater will give you the capability to apply hi-gloss, satin or matte coating almost on any printed sheet. There are many configurations to the available coaters on the market. Sizes range from 18” to 30” with a modular design to allow for added components like automatic feeders. This is also an environmentally friendly way to apply a finish to your printing. There’s even one line of UV coating that is 99.9% VOC free – exceeding all environmental air quality regulations. Add that to your marketing and get some new green-minded customers.
- Binding Machinery. Whether it’s low volume presentation binding or high volume commercial applications, binding machinery is a low-cost, yet crucial component to a successful shop. Prepare a presentations or proposals, books or newsletters with the look and feel your customers desire by having available comb, coil, wire or perfect binding. If you bind it, they will come.
- Letter Folders. Add fulfillment services to your shop. Every office needs to send mailed statements, invoices and other marketing material. If it’s going out in a traditional envelope style, there’s a folder to automate the process. These machines fold thousands of sheets per hour. There are tabletop models for low volume or floor models for high volume, but they’re all easy to setup and operate.
- Document Mailing Equipment. While you’re folding some projects, you might as well run an inserter for others. Save time and money by speeding up your mail processing. Inserters and pressure sealers keep your jobs in a neat sequential order so they’re ready for outgoing mail bins. Some inserters can fold and stuff up to five different sheets and BRE’s at 4,000 sheets per hour. Plus, a pressure sealer adds a whole new product type to your offerings.
- Laminators. Laminating adds durability and professionalism to any printing project. Toner, ink jet and UV inks alone are not very durable, but by adding even a thin laminate coating you can prevent ink cracking and insures a long handling life to a piece. Lamination also adds to the look and feel of your work You can impress customers and upsell projects like printing for photos, charts, posters and signage.
Improve your profits by adding to your catalog of finishing services. Lloyds of Indiana has competitive prices and a variety of models in each of these categories.