Scotch Thermal Laminator Combo Pack, Includes 12 Assorted Pouches (TL902E)

by Scotch

• This is a thermal laminator combo pack
• Two roller system with two temperature settings for both 3 mil and 5 mil thickness
• The package contains one laminator that will laminate items up to 9 inches wide, plus 12 starter pouches: five letter size pouches (TP3854), four 4 x 6 Inch size pouches (TP5900), and three 3 x 5 Inch size pouches (TP5902)
• Laminator will laminate pouches up to 5 mil thick

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Scotch Thermal Laminator TL902 packs professional-quality laminating performance into a package compact enough to use in your home, office, or in the classroom. Convenient and easy to use, this laminator allows you to protect frequently handled documents, preserve artwork, create teaching aids, and more--uses are limited only by your imagination!

Important Features

The Scotch Thermal Laminator TL902 features a two roller system with two heat settings that allows you to laminate items up to 9 inches wide and use laminating pouches up to 5mil thick. You can laminate letter-size, legal-size, business-card size, and photo-size papers, all with crisp, clear results. This laminator is photo-safe and features a jam release lever to quickly release items if they get caught in the machine. Weighing only 5.4 pounds and taking up only 9 inches of surface space, it is portable and easy to stow away when not in use. When paired with Scotch Thermal Laminating Pouches, you can be confident that your documents will look their best and important information will show through.

At Home in the Office

The Scotch Thermal Laminator TL902 is a great addition to any office or business. Protect important documents, make ID cards, laminate menus, create reusable calendars or organizational charts, and make signs and postings that last.

Teacher’s Pet

Teachers and educators will love the versatility of this machine. Quickly and easily create classroom seating charts, teaching aids, instruction sheets, phone lists, class schedules, name tags, and classroom decorations that stand up to the rigors of the school year.

Arts, Crafts, and Creativity

Protecting photographs and preserving children’s artwork are just the beginning of what this laminator can do. Make greeting cards, holiday crafts, enhance scrapbooking projects, create and protect your own recipes, laminate your favorite sheet music, and make collages--let your creativity run wild! This machine can even laminate certain fabrics!

Outdoor Uses

The Scotch Thermal Laminator TL902 isn’t just for indoor fun. Make sure fishing and hunting licenses last through the season, or protect expensive ski lift tickets and season passes from moisture. Coaches can laminate play books, play sheets, and lineup cards to use when the weather gets nasty. Take it to the garage and laminate vehicle titles and registrations, and keep instruction manuals from getting greasy or dirty.

Product Description

This is a thermal laminator designed to laminate paper products up to 9-Inch wide. The package contains one thermal laminator, plus 12 starter pouches: five letter size pouches (TP3854), four 4 x 6 Inch size pouches (TP5900), and three 3 x 5 Inch size pouches (TP5902).

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

84 of 91 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars easy to use, if you're not in a hurry July 10, 2012

By engk916 VINE™ VOICE

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Length: 2:03 Mins

this laminator is compact, and intuitive enough to use out of the box without reading directions. the pouch used in the video review is the 3x5" size.

this laminator can handle any pouch less than 9" wide, and accepts lamination pouches which are 3-10 millimeters thick. however, the machine only has heat settings for 3-millimeter and 5-millimeter. the instructions say that the 3mil setting should be used for thin objects (e.g., standard paper) and the 5mil setting should be used for thicker items (e.g., cards, photo paper).

the laminator took longer than i expected to heat up (about 4-5mins) and seems to process the pouches a bit slowly. if you have a lot of items to laminate this product probably isn't for you. the exterior of the laminator heats up with use, like a toaster, so use caution with this device.

all in all, a great product for the occasional laminator like myself (i use it mostly to laminate sheet music or make my own flashcards).

39 of 44 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Performs well, but rather flimsy August 16, 2012

By Ann B. Hibbard VINE™ VOICE

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It is always helpful for companies to offer scaled-down, inexpensive versions of their products, thus allowing people on a tight budget to still be able to obtain a workable solution without spending mega-bucks. Such is the case with this Scotch Thermal Laminator. The price is nice and low, but it does reflect in the product itself.

In actual functionality, this little thermal laminator works well. It lives up to the expectations as far as laminating thicknesses up to 5 mil well. In fact, I have not had to run anything back through the laminator a second time. The quality of lamination was crisp, clean, and without blemish.

The body of the laminator is decently solid. It would be very difficult to burn oneself on the heating element, as it seems well protected. My primary complaint about the "cheap" construction of the laminator is the feeding tray. It was very difficult for me to actually get the tray in the appropriate position because I felt that I was going to break it every time I tried to position it. Also, the instructions say to use the paper size guide to firmly secure a pouch in place before running it through the laminator, but the guide is too wide for the smallest pouches that are included in the combo pack. So, there is no way to ensure that the smallest pouches process straight through the laminator.

Bottom line: I'm glad to have the laminator. It has been faithful and useful thus far. The flimsiness of the tray does make me concerned about the longevity of the laminator, but I also think a buyer would get their money's worth out of this product before needing to replace it.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Super laminator! June 27, 2012

By MissPammy VINE™ VOICE

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I've wanted a laminator for many years, because I love being able to safeguard documents, recipes, scrapbook pages, etc., from fingerprints, stains, rips, and other damage. I just couldn't justify the price back then. The price for this one is surprisingly low, so I wondered how effective it would be. I had just received an information sheet for a series of classes that will be continuing for the next six months and wanted to preserve it for use during that time, so I tried laminating it in this unit. The unit was very easy to set up and use. Clear instructions are included, but all you do is open up the document tray, plug in the unit and allow it to heat up until the blue light comes on, put your document into a pouch, and feed the pouch through. There are further instructions for relaminating if there is any problem with the seal, but I had zero problems. I fed the document through, peeled off the pouch sheet, and my laminated document was perfect. When done, you just turn off the unit, unplug and allow it to cool, and put it away. The results were stellar. I used the 3-mil weight setting since the page I was laminating was an ordinary Xeroxed page, and the seal was perfect. The laminated page is reinforced yet flexible, clearly readable equally on both sides, and lightweight. I am in love with this laminator! There are so many things I want to laminate--especially recipes I've tried and liked that I printed off the Internet. I highly recommend this laminator.