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Reviewing The GBC Catena 65 Professional Roll Laminator

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Full featured 25″ roll laminator designed for a professional production environment.Ideal for copy shops, printers, in plant print shops and for use in medium and large sized organizations.Offers
mounting capabilities for use with 3/16″ mounting boards including
sintra, foam core, etc. Ca

Overview:

  • Full featured 25″ roll laminator designed for a professional production environment.
  • Ideal for copy shops, printers, in plant print shops and for use in medium and large sized organizations.
  • Takes lamination to the next level to allow for cold laminating, mounting, encapsulating and more.

Features / Strengths:

  • Offers
    mounting capabilities for use with 3/16″ mounting boards including
    sintra, foam core, etc. Can be used with hot mount adhesive or with
    pretreated boards.
  • Can be used with a wide assortment of hot laminating films including 1.5mil, 1.7mil, 3mil, 5mil, and 10mil thicknesses.
  • Adjustable
    speed and temperature settings give you full ability to adjust for
    varying material thickness, film types and other factors.
  • Comes
    standard with 1″ core adaptors. However, 2.25″ core adapters are
    available for specialty films that are not available on a 1″ core.
  • Integrated core adapter

Limitations / Weaknesses:

  • Can not accept laminating film on a 3″ core. This limits the availability of some specialty films that only come on 3″ cores.
  • It
    can be more difficult to configure and master this type of roll
    laminator than a typical school laminator or a simpler machine. This
    machine does a lot of things and that makes it a little bit more
    complicated and can take a little bit of work to learn.
  • This
    laminator can only laminate documents up to 25 inches wide. If you need
    to deal with wide format posters or other items you will need to choose
    a larger machine.
  • Like all roll laminators, this machine can
    be somewhat difficult to load. However, once you have done it a few
    times it gets a lot easier.

Construction:

  • Plastic sides with metal feed tray and components.
  • Generally
    does not require a lot of service. However, you need to be careful
    around the rollers and should not attempt to clean them with sharp
    objects or to laminate items with glitter, 3D objects or other
    materials that can damage the rollers.
  • If you are not careful
    it is possible to load this laminator backwards causing the film to
    wrap around the rollers and creating a big mess.

Recommendation:

  • This
    machine is a great starting point for a printer, copy shop or in plant
    print shop that wants to be able to do multiple types of lamination.
  • For the largest users there are faster more versatile laminators on the market. However , they also cost a lot more.
  • Offers a great set of features for its price range and comes with the GBC name and 90 days of on site warranty service.

About the author

If you need more information or would like to purchase the GBC Catena 65 Professional Roll Laminator or any of the other Roll Laminators that we carry please feel to visit our site or contact us with your questions.

This review was written by Jeff McRitchie who is the director of marketing for Mybinding.com.
Jeff has written more than three hundred articles and more than two
hundred reviews on Binding Machines, Binding Supplies, Report Covers,
3-Ring Binders, Index Tabs, Laminators, Laminating Supplies, Paper
Shredders and Paper Handling Equipment.

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