EasyIDea Premium ID Card and Badge Laminator | ML450 Mini Lam for ID Cards | Temperature Controlled |

I purchased this product to donate to my local clubs that require membership. They needed a laminating machine for membership cards.

It was a replacement unit from one I bought from an ID card vendor. Same thing for 30 dollars less

This laminator took 23 minutes to laminate 5 cards. Each card has a cut piece of regular paper folded in 1/2 in a 10 ml. Laminating pouch. Each card had to be put thru the machine a minimum of 6-7 times each. Will definitely return this item. What a waste.

I have used this to laminate various club cards and it works well. The warmup to operating temp seems a little slow.

Bought this little guy to laminate business cards and make luggage tags. Works perfectly with 5mil laminate pouches. Works ok with the 10mil. I am not sure if my business cards are a little too thick -- but it takes several passes to get the pouch closest to the business card to seal. I will try to laminate a thinner business card in 10mil pouch and update. All in all its worth the money and if you don't have to do a lot of laminating i would recommend.

It was very useful for what I wanted to for and I continue to make use of it. I will recommend it to any one that needed a laminator for basic ID's.

Ordered 2 cot size rv mattresses, they came in quickly and were even better than advertised, love them and would use this seller again

This laminator is attractively priced at $52.99. While it is more than adequate to laminate 100 or fewer ID Cards, for quantities greater than that spend the extra money and buy the Pro-Lam 100 4" Laminator by Akiles. It can be found for less than $190. If I were reviewing the Akiles I would give it 5 stars without a doubt.The easyIDea ML450 I purchased was used exclusively for laminating Customer Rewards Cards (credit card size). I used Artisyn synthetic paper (10 mil) sandwiched by a 10 mil matte/matte butterfly pouch. I successfully laminated almost 500 cards before purchasing the Akiles Pro-Lam 100 4" Laminator.But wait, you said 100 or fewer cards above you're thinking. You are correct. Although all the cards required a minimum of two passes through the ML450 Laminator to successfully bond the three layers, the first 100 or so cards were otherwise trouble-free. After that I began getting blemishes, blisters and cards that wouldn't bond no matter how many times I passed them through the laminator. I averaged about a 10% failure rate over the last 350 or so cards. Artisyn paper ain't cheap!! Neither are the pouches!! Every reject costs, and it adds up.So for light duty I give it 4 stars since it gets the job done and has a great price. However for medium or heavy duty it only receives 2 stars because this laminator just doesn't cut the mustard. Average: 3 stars.For anything more than 100 cards I'd spend the extra $135 and get the Akiles.