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Create a Better Way with the Xyron 9-inch Creative Station
Make any flat item into a sticker, a magnet or laminate with this one easy to use machine!
The Creative Station is the perfect tool for crafters, parents, teachers, professionals and anyone with a desire to create. This multi-function machine comes loaded with twenty-five feet of acid-free, non-toxic permanent adhesive, allowing you to begin creating the moment you take it out of the box. Operation is safe and simple, heat-free, odor-free, and does not require batteries or electricity.
Xyron adhesive is perfect for working with intricate die cuts and embellishments. The edge-to-edge application ensures your corners won't curl up. The unique application process eliminates the mess of glue, the unpleasant smell of spray adhesives, and the danger of burns with a hot glue gun. Your machine will come loaded with acid-free, non-toxic, permanent adhesive for a high tack hold.
How are people using this?
- Specialty Invitations - Save money and create something you can be proud of for weddings, showers, birthdays, or any other important event in your life!
- School projects - Posters and presentation have never been easier for you and your child!
- Home DIY projects - Customize your design on whatever you want!
Additional refills of permanent adhesive are available in a forty foot length. Refill cartridge is item AT905-40.
Machine Use
1-2-3 Easy Steps
- Fold down the entry tray and lay a flat item up to 9-inches wide face up on the tray until you feel it meet the roller.
- Gently guide item forward while turning handle clockwise. Cut paper backing by sliding the cut blade across the cut bar.
- Give your item a rub, remove the protective plastic film, peel your sticker from paper backing and apply to project.
You are now ready to create!
To switch cartridges:
- Open cartridge compartment by lifting up on the latch on top of unit
- Pull cartridge up and out of machine
- Guide cartridge into compartment using tracks on the side of the machine. Place material flap between rubber rollers
- Close lid by pressing down until it clicks into position
Machine Features and Available Cartridges
Repositionable Adhesive Feature
Repositionable adhesive cartridge contains forty feet of acid-free, non-toxic, repositionable adhesive. Item AT906-40 (sold separately)
This is a great option when you may need to readjust placement of items as you are creating your project. You can place, remove and reposition your items without leaving any sticky residue. This works best when working with children, for use in stenciling or temporary décor projects
How are people using the repositionable adhesive?
- School Projects
- Scrapbooking
- Card making
- Creating personalized stencils
Laminate Feature
Double sided lamination cartridge contains forty feet of laminate. Item 0902-01-40 (sold separately)
Cold lamination is a great option for the home and small office user. Once you have this lightweight, portable, easy to use machine available, you'll be surprised how many things you find to laminate! The cold lamination process allows you to trim items virtually anywhere without having the laminate lift and separate. The lamination refill cartridge applies permanent laminate to both sides of flat items, to add protection and durability.
How are people using the lamination cartridge?
- Preserve awards, artwork, recipes and more
- Create signs for office and school walls
- Printing or cutting out images and ideas for learning materials
- Creating unique bookmarks or luggage tags
Magnet/Laminate Feature
Magnet/Laminate cartridge contains ten feet of material. Item LM907-10 (sold separately)
Imagine being able to turn your favorite photos, quotes and images into beautiful magnets. Now you can with the 9" Creative Station and the Laminate/Magnet Refill cartridge. A thin layer of magnet material is applied to the back of the item and laminate to the front. Trim to size and your item will now adhere as a magnet.
How are people using the laminate/magnet cartridge?
- Create inspirational messages for refrigerators or metal file cabinets
- Send magnetized "save the date" cards
- Display artwork cleanly, without the clutter of additional magnets to hold it up
- Create personalized magnet calendars
About Xyron
Xyron was founded in 1996 in Scottsdale, Arizona and has grown within the creative marketplace to become a world-class provider of transformation tools for creative individuals both in the home and office.
Xyron is an Esselte company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of office products. Esselte offers a wide range of innovative solutions for your work environment through such well-known brands as Pendaflex, Oxford, Ampad, Xyron, Rapid and Leitz.
Xyron's products include award winning adhesive tools, unique handheld dispensers, and patented cold lamination products. We offer solutions for all your adhesive needs ranging in size from glue sticks up to wide format machines for professional use. Xyron helps you create a better way.
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Customer Reviews
It's so easy to use. You can make ANYTHING a sticker with ease. Pictures, die cuts, memorabilia, etc. If it's flat, it can be slid through the Xyron 900 and turned into a sticker. No more messy glue! It is mechanical, but not electric. You slide a cartridge in, place your picture (or whatever you want to make sticky) on one side, turn the crank and it comes out the other side as a sticker. SIMPLE! No mess, no fuss, no little removable parts to lose.
The only downside at all is that the cartridges can be pricey. I buy mine from my local Michaels ALWAYS using a 40%-50% off coupon. So, that really helps, otherwise you are looking at $30-$35 each. BUT, other adhesives can be expensive, too. I haven't attempted to see which costs more over the long run.
The other amazing thing is that you have a myriad of cartridges to choose from. You can use permanent adhesive, repositionable adhesive, MAGNET back, you can laminate, etc.
This is a MUST have for scrapbookers. You will save a great deal of time and not have sticky fingers! If you KNOW a scrapbooker and they don't have this machine... BUY IT FOR THEM. They will love you forever.
I've owned this item for over three years now.
Pros:
The variety of things you can do with this machine are amazing. Make magnets, make stickers, and laminate with no heat! Simple design means no batteries, no need to plug in, just grab it and go. This has been great for craft projects with kids, scrapbooking, and protecting keepsakes. As long as you are working with flat, smooth items, it works consistently well.
Cons;
Cartridges are expensive, so use a coupon when possible.
Fabric appliques didn't work, in that fabric items didn't stick well, and the thickness of the fabric caused material to wrinkle.
The magnet cartridge laminates the front of the item, and puts sticky thin magnetic material on the back of the item as it goes through the roller. When making magnets, I found the magnetic material too thin- and sometimes because it is so thin, it isn't powerful enough to hold things up. It also is so thin it makes it very difficult to get the magnet off a surface if you have made a sticker out of something thin (like a photo.) Don't try to make a magnet out of anything too thick though, or it will wrinkle the laminate on the front and be ruined. I have been able to remove the front laminate, but it took parts of the project with it because it is very sticky.
It claims you can trim magnets right up to the edge, but I have found this is not a good idea with slightly thicker items (like about the thickness of a credit card without the numbers on it.) The slight "height" of the item creates a small gap between where the laminate and magnetic material come together around the outside of the object.
2-sided laminate cartridge; good as long as you are laminating flat, smooth objects. Watch out if you get a bad cartridge, or try to laminate something a little thick or uneven. It will form wrinkles as it laminates, and that will ruin your project permanently. It's impossible to get the laminate apart unless there are air pockets.
We used it to laminate autumn leaves we collected as souvenirs from a trip to Vermont. The stems of the leaves proved to be "too thick" and caused the laminate to wrinkle. We tried laminating fresh flower petals to preserve their color, and won't ever try it again! Next time we will use dried, pressed flower petals. The fresh flower petals are too "thick" and get scraped off or moved around by the cartridge frame that nearly comes in contact with the item being laminated. Flower petals we did manage to laminate had small air pockets around them and began to rot within a week, turning brown and moldy inside the laminate. We even tried laminating the fresh flower petals between two pieces of clear protective sheets, only to have the air pockets again, which allow petals to move around, and again, rot.
Haven't tried the temporary adhesive cartridge.
If you buy the special cartridges, this machine can also produce magnets, iron on decals, and re-positionable stickers (which is nice when you place the sticker down crooked).
The machine is lightweight, easy to use, and portable. No plugging in or batteries.
Definitely worth the money
I use this for puting patterns to wood for my scroll saw work
I make mostly jig saw puzzles from calendar's or my own... Read more
