Customer Reviews

Brother LX900 Cool Laminator Multifinishing

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Brother's "Coollaminator" is conviently compact in size; only 14" Long and 12" wide. Designed with a very stylish grey body and trimmed nicely with a purple document alignment tray and faced paper dock. I found it to be easily moved and transported from room to room, as it only weighs approximately 5 to 7 pounds. I am very pleased with the finished document it produces! My work is clean, bubble and wrinkle free! I am very happy with it's professional output. Brother also supplies a variety of lamination effects to work with its machine. Dual lamination tape, adheasive tape and magnetic backing tape. These different tapes allow me to finnish many of my office needs, but it also sparks many different crafty ideas for my home too. Place mats, holliday decor- ations, bumper and window stickers. The automatic trimmer cuts away excess film with or without a border! It's user selectable features allow you to choose how you want your finished document to be trimmed! I can't say enough about the Brother Coollaminator. Thanks, Brother, for another fine product!

I recently purchased this product for a number of home projects and I have been extremely satisfied. Upon receiving the LX900, it took me less than 10 minutes to unpack, set-up and begin laminating. I found the instruction manual to be clear and well written in English, not sloppily translated from Chinese. There aren't too many settings on this laminator, so even someone as inept as myself can avoid making mistakes.

Two things I absolutely love about this product. First, you can power it on and immediately begin laminating. No waiting for it to warm-up. I use this at home, so it's not powered on all day like it would be in an office. When I realize I want to laminate something I can literally have it done within 1 minute, and get back to work on my project. Second, I love the auto-cut feature. This laminator does an amazing job of auto-sensing the size of the paper, and cutting the laminate to the desired border size. No painfully sharp edges either! Note, I'm only laminating rectangular items (index cards, 8.5 x 11), so I cannot comment on how it handles irregular-shaped items (circles, children's artwork, etc...). The cuts are so good that the discarded laminate just falls off; you don't even have to pull on it! One other thing I've noticed is that since it doesn't use heat, it doesn't discolor item's that may be heat-sensitive. I use label makers that use heat-sensitive labels. Other laminators would be so hot, that it ruined the labels. Not the LX900!

All in all, I would highly recommend this laminator for any home user. The only thing I can't comment on is whether it's durable enough for an office, or for laminating odd-shaped items. However, it wouldn't surprise me if it handled those equally well.

It set up in less than 5 minutes and I was able to use it immediately. I have been laminating all of my daughters keepsakes so she will have them forever.

Its also compact and doesn't take up too much room on my desk so I can leave it out and have it accessible at all times.

The only con is if you are laminating small cards or photos, it wastes a lot of laminate but I was able to get it to laminate a small business card with ease.

This laminator is so easy to use. I like the idea of it being a "cool" process. There is no warm up time. The cartridges drop in very easily. I've used all three of the different cartridges and I particularly like the magnetic backed laminate. It works great for signs and large photos. I bought this for my business use, but I've found lots of personal uses for it too. I'd recommend this product if you're in the market for a laminator.

Despite what the box says, I've had lots of problems with this product when laminating small-sized business cards and photos. I've wasted *lots* of the laminating "film" trying to get it to work on small items, and am preparing to return this item. Larger items come out very nicely however, so it might work better for other users.

When I got this it worked OK and gave me B- type results. That's fine, because I was just using it around the house for miscellaneous stuff so I didn't need quality. Then, after only 3 months, *poof*, no power. The unit is dead. Too much hassle to go through Brother Inc. for warranty (pay S & H charges, wait 3 lifetimes to get it back refurbed, etc.).

Except for an occasional lapse in between changing out rolls (I use two sizes) which result in my forgetting exactly how to feed the plastic into the machine, I have been very satisfied with this laminator. Works exactly as advertised. I don't recall seeing any directions specific to using two sheets of paper, but I put in two sheets of paper and laminated a two-sided sheet of paper.

I had to bring mine back the same day. Lamination Inkjet prints results in thousands of tiny tiny bubbles, visible only close-up, not from 3 feet away. But The image contrast is thereby ruined, and closeup viewing will reveal the horrable quality. For Inkjet Photo lamination only HOT lamination will do a perfect job, but that requires a photo quality HOT laminator.

I was a little skeptical of a "cool" laminating machine when I first read about it on Amazon. But, for the price, I decided to try it. I am not skeptical at all now. It works great! Everybody in our office is impressed, too. I would highly recommend it!

I wouldn't recommend this product to anyone looking for a professional finish. The cool laminating process often leaves a sticky residue. Brother customer service says that this is way it is and rubbing alchol may remove "some" of the residue. My experience was unsatisfactory with removing the sticky stuff.