Texet A3 Laminator

I have had this laminator for 10 years! I bought it in August 2013, and today, after lots of use, the inner roller has decided to die and stop pushing the laminations through. I am so gutted as I love this laminator. I bought this in my 1st year of teaching and it's been with me since, from school to school. It gets used almost daily, all through the school year, and has never failed me! I feel like it's the end of an era! I am so impressed and pleased with it, that I am on here writing a review - before buying another one! The price is incredible, it's compact and so easy to use!

I'm new to laminating - I was keen not to purchase a white elephant, looking for a product with maximum flexibility options, reasonably compact quality laminator. The end purpose was to primarily laminate pictures and photographs up to A4 size. I trawled the internet and read countless desriptions and reviews. When I hit on A3 size laminator I thought 'why not'. Across the various product ranges out there, there were countless reviews describing rippled, wrinkled and jamming experiences which did leave me feeling a tad apprehensive. As it turned out I must have bought the right laminator - this one has a single roller, one switch and an indicator light. It's well put together and of a robust finish, suitable for home/small office use. I didn't need to use a cardboard insert, I presented each pouch square on feeding the closed end in first. The roller pulls through at a really manageable rate and will take from credit card size all the way up to A3. The whole operation was a breeze time after time, no jamming, no wrinkled or rippled finishes, just brilliant results. Needless to say I'm well pleased, nice price too!

I've had this laminator for a while now, and despite a little difficulty initially, I've been very pleased with it. It laminates consistently and well. It's better than it's budget price might indicate, though some people have had issues with them which suggests quality control might be a bit hit and miss. If and when it does expire, I'll probably buy another one the same. UPDATE: I acquired another, very fancy business laminator (Fellowes Venus 2) , so I gave this Texet laminator to my Mum. Then after a few years, the new laminator failed, and as I didn't want to swipe the old one back off my Mum, I actually did buy another of these budget Texets. Having got used to the posh laminator, I miss the super-fast heat-up time, but that's it. The Texet laminates pretty much every bit as well, and while the Texet is slower to laminate, I find I don't really miss the extra speed of the business laminator, as it takes me a few seconds to align the page in the pouch anyway. One unexpected bonus of the Texet, is that the compact size and light weight of the Texet makes it so much more convenient to store and retrieve than my other laminator, which was a bit of a nuisance to set up as it was heavy. Based on my longer experience with the Texet, I've uprated my review to a solid 5. Highly recommended!

The Laminator has worked well so far. It's very simple but laminates perfectly well and is very light so easy to carry back and forth if you need to. I laminate around 10-20 sheets a week, a mixture of full sheets and pre-cut resources. It only really works without using a carrier- just put the laminating sheet straight through- I don't think it gets hot enough to work with a carrier. There are no temperature controls but this hasn't been an issue except for when I initially tried to use it with a carrier. I would prefer it if there was a reverse button, but you are able to stop it going any further and pull it out manually if it gets scrunched up. I have only had 1 incident of crumpling and I only had myself to blame as I had fed it in at a funny angle. It takes a few minutes to warm up and isn't the fastest laminator I've ever used, but equally not the slowest either. Packaged well and delivered very quickly. Overall, I am happy with my purchase, it does the job well for a very reasonable price.

My old Textet laminator finally gave up the ghost and, after considerable research, I decided to buy this model. Although it doesn't have the facilities my old laminator had it wasn't a problem because I hardly ever used them anyway. I set to work to laminate 72 pages of A4 using 160 micron pouches. Once the machine was up to temperature it just worked with no fuss and completed the 72 pages in a reasonable time. It has been mentioned in other reviews that the speed is quite slow. I cannot argue with that but wonder if it needs to be any faster. It is a basic machine designed I would think for home use where speed is not necessary. Besides which since I was performing the task on my own, I was also having to prepare each sheet. I found that, by the time I had correctly positioned each sheet in its envelope, the laminating process for the previous sheet was about complete. Overall, this is a great little machine at a very low price and I would recommend it to anyone for low usage requirements.

Bought for use at school where I work, as we are fed-up of waiting for others to do our laminating. Used regularly but not frequently (2 or 3 of times a week for a couple of hours) and is standing up well. Quite quick to warm up, but you do need to let it warm up so put it on before you need it. Ready light is not the easiest to see as you have to be at the right level and direction to see it easily, but this isn't really a problem. Easy to feed laminations through and they don't get jammed. Can use a variety of thickness of laminations but we tend to go for reasonably thin ones (80microns) and they come out well. Used with both A4 and A3 and equally good with both. Hasn't let us down yet.

Update After three and a half years of intermittent use it is still going strong. On the whole it is better not to laminate more than 6 or so items as after that the pouch sometimes creases - perhaps the machine is too hot? However I have done up to 12 on occasion with no problem. Recommended. Original I have only used it twice but it seemed to work fine each time (even with some rather old laminating pockets). Unlike some machines it is not "skin tight" on A3 which helps if you do not get the work lined up absolutely straight. A word of warning if you have a light directly overhead - the red and green lights reflect this so they look as if they are on. This makes you think it is ready to go qhwn it is not. If you have an overhead light hold your hand over the machine lights to check they really are on. (This may explain why some peope find it does not "work well")

I read the other reviews and decided to purchase this laminator and it has been great.It arrived very quickly, I plugged it in,after reading the instructions and managed to laminate 3 A3 posters straight away. I thought they looked really nice and I was very pleased with them.The laminator was very easy to use and produces super results. The only negative comment would be that I could only find 3 A3 pouches and I thought there would be 5 in the box with the laminator, but I was not that concerned as I had ordered some A5 and A3 pouches as well.

Esta plastificadora es fantástica. La uso mucho y no me ha dado ningún problema desde que la compré. Plastifica de manera rápida y eficiente, dejando los documentos con un acabado profesional. ¡Estoy muy satisfecha con mi compra!

Perfetto

Ravie de cette plastifieuse (laminor) qui accepte les formats A6, A5, A4 & A3. Idéale pour la réalisation de sets de table, posters, pèle-mèle ou divers montages. Pour ma part, mes premiers essais ont été la plastification des recettes de cuisine imprimées que nous utilisons le plus souvent. Ma meilleure amie m'avait vantée les avantages de ce genre d'appareil, j'en suis ravie ! Les cartes cartonnees de piscine de nos petits sont restées sèches :-) Très simple d'utilisation, il suffit de la brancher, de l'allumer et de patienter une dizaine de minutes pendant la mise en température (voyant vert allumé dès que la bonne T°C est atteinte). Quelques feuilles sont comprises (80 µm). Après avoir glissé votre feuille à plastifier entre les 2 épaisseurs de plastique, il s'agit d'insérer l'ensemble (partie soudée en premier) et de laisser faire... En quelques dizaines de secondes, c'est terminé ! Comme tout appareil qui chauffe, des précautions d'utilisation sont à prendre. Eviter bien sûr que les enfants s'en approchent. Le rapport qualité prix est excellent pour une format A3. Je recommande +++

Excellent produit.

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