GBC(R) ProClick(R) P200 Presentation Binding Machine

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• Product Dimensions: 22 x 22 x 13 inches ; 20 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 20 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006IASC
• Item model number: 1758020
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #21 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Presentation Products > Binding Machines
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 29, 2002

Product Description

Binding made easy! The ProClick 150 machine punches up to 12 sheets at a time and has a unique closing mechanism for quick and easy binding. Features include ergonomic doublehandle punch, combsize guide and storage compartments for ProClick spines and report covers. With ProClick, pages turn easily and lie flat. You can add and remove pages at any time. Punches both standard and oversized covers. The 32hole format works with GBC ProClick spines.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars barely does the job, December 12, 2007

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P. Benda (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GBC(R) ProClick(R) P200 Presentation Binding Machine (Office Product)

Our typical document sizes are 20-200 pages with small runs (we use spiral rather than pro-click bindings for large documents), at relatively low frequency, so we couldn't justify spending thousands of dollars for a professional hole punch machine.
This device is rated at 12 pages, frequently we have to cut that to 5 because sheets don't feed easily into the punch area. So you insert, if they don't go all the way in (you can feel the page margins bending), you pull out and slide in fewer pages, and shake the sheets a bit until they seat properly. It's very time consuming. I think there may be small shreds of paper at the punch holes that new sheets get caught on, or the hole punch surface area is uneven.

Once the paper is in, it punches fairly cleanly, but pushing down on the handle feels like you're squashing a sack of potatoes, and the lever doesn't always travel the same distance, occasionally making peculiar cracking noises. Not a functional issue, just thought you'd like to know.

Finally, this is a device that is designed specifically to put holes evenly along an edge of paper. But there are no longitudinal paper guides. So whether it's 8.5x11 or any other size, you're never quite sure if the sheets are all the way in and whether they're in straight. Over the course of using this thing, we've probably thrown a full ream of paper into the trash because the holes were punched at an angle or on the edge altogether (leaving a toothy line of half-moons on the edge). So then it's back to printing extra sheets, or even rebinding the document if you didn't notice the misalignment right away.

The binding tool mounted on the top is marginally useful. Our device arrived with a bent slide on the top, so you can set up the comb and insert sheets, but we have to squeeze the comb closed by hand (which works just fine.) Perhaps others will find the slider-thingy more useful.

I'd rate the entire contraption a "one" but, to be fair, it DOES work and it's reasonably durable and well manufactured (albeit with a quirky design). And the finished pro-click product looks very good.

My next purchase will probalby be a different brand of punch with same hole pattern.