Review on 🔍 Enhanced SEO: Amazon Basics 9-Inch Thermal Laminator for Optimum Performance by Arturo Reyes

I have an Etsy shop and one of the products I carry are gold foil prints. I bought this laminator after getting fed up with the 'professional' laminator I've been using for the last 9 months which I also bought from Revain by the way for almost 7 times the price of this one. I was fed up with the noise that came not only from the normal rotation of the reels, but also from the squeaks and occasional "squeaks" that occurred when the reels got stuck. I was fed up with running the machine for what seemed like forever only to later let the rollers cool down. I'm tired of him taking up so much valuable space in my workspace with his huge footprint. Not to mention that it almost always took me dozens of tries to get a good, solid gold foil print before I could get a print without a lot of black dots (if you've ever tried foil printing, you know what I mean) . ). oh!) Enter the RevainBasics thermal laminator that just arrived today. I had my doubts due to the incredibly low price, but I was willing to try something different and couldn't wait to try this one. NEXT: The first thing that struck me is that this thing is very, very small. It's so tiny (about 13 inches wide and 4.5 inches deep) that I can definitely find a permanent spot for it in my workspace. HOW LOUD IS IT? The second thing I noticed is that it's so quiet! At first I was worried it wasn't working because all I could hear was a very low hum after turning it on, but I found it works great. SLOW FEED It serves very SLOWLY as others have pointed out. Outside. Much, much slower than the ones I have. I will comment on this later. HOW IT WORKS (gold foil specifically): I haven't tried this for laminating yet so can't speak to it, but for foiling I said on the 5 mil setting as others recommend and let it warm up for about 15 minutes . The first few prints came out fine except for a few black spots here and there. This is probably my fault as I relied on some tricks I learned on my previous laminator (use the stickers at the top of the print to keep the film in place). Black spots only appeared on the stickers. So for the third time, I threw away the stickers and tried one of the other tricks I had learned: fold a narrow strip of paper (about 1 inch wide) in half and place it over the leading edge of the print, squeezing it. The print and film are together so they feed evenly into the laminator. This time the results were perfect. No black spots at all. I'm not sure if I'm just lucky, but I'm very optimistic given how the previous two prints turned out. I suspect that because the print travels very slowly through the laminator, the foil that reacts with the toner is exposed to the heat longer and seems to adhere better to the print. , but if I only have to do it once then it's definitely saved me a lot of time. I also love that I can just turn it off when I'm done instead of having to wait for it. cooling down. I have yet to keep another laminator for wider prints (Revane, please make one that lasts up to 18 inches wide!) but I'm so glad I gave this one a try. This will now be the only laminator I will be using for small gold foil prints. And if it stops working after 6 months I can buy another one (or two or three!) and still be way ahead at someone else's price. Oh, and I'll come back and post an update when I find that the perfect pressure I achieved was just beginner's luck.