Are you trying to find manual laminators among various brands on the market but aren’t sure where to begin? To assist you in finding the right one, we’ve put together a list of the 7 best to help you pick the perfect one!
We investigated and evaluated a number of the top-selling manual laminators on the market in order to create our list of the best. Making a decision among the many options available is never simple. There are an infinite number of models available, each with a distinct price. And as you’ll find out, the best options aren’t usually the ones you imagine! This comparison is rich and relevant because of the numerous factors that were employed. You will find products featured in this ranking not only based on their pricing but also on their features and other customers reviews. To write this review, we completed 29 hours of research and did 75 manual laminators tests. You won’t need to pick products at random any more. If you’re unsure of what to look for, browse our list and consult the buying guide!
An overview of our top picks
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The best manual laminators you can buy today
- Specification：Maximum Laminating Width:25.5" (650mm); Maximum Laminating Thickness:0.4" (10mm); Roller Diameter:2.68" (68mm)
- More Solid: Cast iron backing， which is not easy to deform, high quality, and high precision lamination, and the sturdy can provide higher stability
- Advantage: Manual cold laminator uses soft rubber rollers, smooth and flat surface with a strong retraction type, film get through without wrinkle and departure.There is no warm-up time and your material will move quickly through the laminator. All you have to do is turn the handle! Also, little maintenance is required compared to hot roll laminators.
- More Safety: Cold roll laminatiing machine doesn't need to heating, it won't melt and stick nd no heating, means no chance of burns and no potential fire hazard -- all reasons why cold laminators are a practical choice for schools, offices, and sensitive work environments. They are ideal with untrained or unsupervised staff who have a need to use the machine
- Wildely Application: Cold laminator machine is widely applied in wedding photography, spraying and painting as well as mounting of a poster, advertising photograph, book cover, document, calligraphy and painting, invitations, etc
- Metal Structure: All metal construction for heavy-duty commercial and professional uses, manual cold laminator uses thick metal materials to make the machine more stable. Note: The handle has been upgraded to all-black. But the high quality is as good as ever.
- Perfect Laminating Performance: Manual cold roll laminator uses soft rubber rollers, smooth and flat surface with a strong retraction type, film get through without wrinkle and departure.
- Adjustable & Folding: Hand crank laminating machine adapts the adjustable roller position, suitable for various material thicknesses; the folding table is convenient for storage and easy to use.
- Stability & Manual: Manual vinyl laminator with four non-slip rubber feet, more stable to protect the machine; no power supply, manual operation, control at any time.
- Multiple Application: Cold press laminator machine is widely applied in wedding photography, spraying and painting as well as mounting of a poster, advertising photograph, book cover, document, calligraphy and painting, invitations, etc.
- Maximum Laminating Thickness: 0.4" (10 mm) soft rubber rollers, smooth surface make film get through without wrinkle and departure.
- Roller Diameter: 2.68" (68 mm) Adjustable roller position suitable for various material thickness.
- Package Weight: approx 19 Lb (8.6 Kg) High quality/high precision cold laminator .
- Maximum Laminating Width: 14.4" (360 mm) and Maximum Laminating Thickness: 0.4" (10 mm); Roller Diameter: 2.68" (68 mm).
- Nine inch cold laminator uses drop-in refill cartridges instead of pouches or Pockets
- No heat and no electricity means no cords to Worry about and no unpleasant odors
- Uses laminate refill Xyron item 145612, laminate/magnet refill Xyron item 100128, 5 inch laminate refill Xyron item 624674
- Lightweight and portable for use throughout your home, School or Office
- Use to laminate Items up to 8.5 inches wide or add magnetic Material to the back and laminate the front for use with whiteboards
- Folding Design: Cold laminating machine adopts a folding design, and the panels on both sides can be folded and disassembled as needed
- All Metal Structure: Laminator machine with laminating sheets is made of high-quality steel and wear-resistant rubber rollers, equipped with a high-strength metal platform, and assembled by surface spraying
- Manual, Cold Press: Cold roll laminator does not require power or heating. Easy to operate and convenient to use
- Adjustable Thickness: The maximum laminating thickness of the laminating machine is 0.4 inches (10 millimeters), and the maximum laminating width is 14 inches (360 millimeters).
- Wildely Application: Laminator machine with laminating sheets is widely applied in wedding photography, spraying and painting as well as mounting of a poster, advertising photograph, book cover, document, calligraphy and painting, invitations, etc
- Specification: Maximum laminating width: 14" (350 mm); maximum laminating thickness: 0.4" (10 mm); roller diameter: 2.42" (61.5 mm); size:18.7" x 13.39" x 9.45"; net weight: 14.3 LB
- No Electricity Needed: The all metal frame cold laminator is completely manual operation, no power supply, simple structure and more economical use
- Perfect Laminating Performance: Manual cold laminator uses soft rubber rollers, smooth and flat surface with a strong retraction type, film get through without wrinkle and departure; there is no warm-up time and your material will move quickly through the laminator; all you have to do is only one step--turn the handle! Almost no maintenance is required compared to hot roll laminators
- Convenient for Storage: The cold laminating machine is small in shape, with folding function, the desktop on both sides can be folded which is help to save more space and more convenient to storage, does not occupy space, lightweight, easy to carry and store, suitable for family and business use
- High Stability and Durability: This cold press laminator machine is made of high quality steel and wear-resistant rubber roller, equipped with high strength metal platform, adjusting bracket and metal feet desktop,which makes the machine more stable and has a longer service life; it is more durable when laminating, without bubbles or weak film
- Widely application: The mount lamination machine uses pressure to bond film and printed matter together, could laminates items up to 14 inches wide, such as copy paper, business cards, contracts, labels, photos, DIY card, and more; through the process of laminating to strengthen the surface of printed matter and improve wear resistance and aesthetics, the graphics will be fresh, colorfast, non-yellowing
- ☑【Product Parameters】Product Size：21*12*16.5Cm（8.27*4.72* 6.5In）; Rubber Roller Length：15*3Cm(5.91*1.18In)（Length*Diameter）; Packing Size：20*14*26 Cm; Product Net Weight：2.3 Kg（5.07Lb）; Package Weight：3 Kg; Rubber Roller Material: Plastic
- ☑【Application】This Cold Lamina-Tor Is Suitable For Cold Pressing And Mounting Of Pictures, Photos, Calligraphy, Etc
- ☑【Efficient Cold Laminator】Manual, No Electricity Required. The surface is smooth and flat, and the film coating ability is strong, and the film will not wrinkle or come off when the film passes. Without preheating time, your material will pass through the laminating machine quickly
- ☑【Easy To Carry】This manual cold laminator weighs 2.3 Kg and can be easily carried to work places, homes, friends parties, wedding photography shops, etc. to take pictures and film at any time, so that beautiful photos can record your life
- ☑【After-Sales Service】If you have any questions, please consult the professional customer service team at any time, we will reply as soon as possible within 24 hours
- Maximum Laminating Width:14" (360mm) Manual, no electricity required
- Maximum Laminating Thickness:0.4" (10mm) soft rubber rollers, smooth surface make film get through without wrinkle and departure
- Roller Diameter:2.68" (68mm) Adjustable roller position suitable for various material thickness
- High quality/high precision cold laminator
- 2 position handling board to control the laminating process
- 【Manual/Electric Dual Working Mode】Glossy or satin cold laminating film included as GIFT. This 63inch 1600mm cold laminator work both by electric and manual, two working methods. Cold press process to cover graphics with cold laminating film which has good waterproof and excellent performance.
- 【63in Laminating Width/1in Laminating Thickness】Max laminating thickness is 1in (25mm), Max laminating width is 63in, the Dia of the roller is 5.1inch(13cm).Cold laminatingh is widely applied in wedding photography, spraying and painting as well as mounting of poster, advertising photograph, book cover, document, calligraphy and painting, invitations and more.
- 【Foot Switch/High Efficiency】No need to roll all the time manually, with automatic electric function, high effciency and more acurate. Also installed foot switch, so it can control the rotation of the laminating machine, labor free.
- 【Dia 5.1in Soft Rubber Rollers】The laminating film won't melt or stick on the rolls, this mean you won't experience a burnt plastic odor. Also equipped with soft rubber rollers, so wrinkles or bubbles are much less likely to form. Cold laminators won't harm heat sensitive documents or photographs
- 【Simple Structure/Easy Operate】The structure of the cold laminator is simple and easy to operate. With two pressure regulator, manual handle, laminating film placement rod, support frame, four moving caster, emergency switch and foot switch. Both can be placed on the desktop alone and installed on the support frame move to the place you want.
- Metal Structure: All metal construction for heavy-duty commercial and professional uses, manual cold laminator uses thick metal materials to make the machine more stable.
- Perfect Laminating Performance: Manual cold roll laminator uses soft rubber rollers, smooth and flat surface with a strong retraction type, film get through without wrinkle and departure.
- Adjustable & Folding: Hand crank laminating machine adapts the adjustable roller position, suitable for various material thicknesses; the folding table is convenient for storage and easy to use.
- Stability & Manual: Manual vinyl laminator with four non-slip rubber feet, more stable to protect the machine; no power supply, manual operation, control at any time.
- Multiple Application: Cold press laminator machine is widely applied in wedding photography, spraying and painting as well as mounting of a poster, advertising photograph, book cover, document, calligraphy and painting, invitations, etc.
- 【Adjustable Dimensions】Left and right ends of this cold laminating machine knob adjust the mounting pressure. Maximum laminating width is 29.5in(750mm); Maximum lamination thickness is 0.4in(10mm); Rubber roller diameter is 2.56in(65mm)
- 【Considerate Design】The cold laminator adopts fold-up table for easy storage. Light weight and easy to use. And manual operation without electricity makes the machine more portable to use. The support of the desktop adopts metal feet, which is more durable
- 【High Precision】Adjustable roller position of the manual cold laminating machine suitable for various material thickness. Brand new soft rubber rollers,smooth surface make film get through without wrinkle and departure. So the cold laminator is with high precision
- 【Excellent Performance】This cold laminator can apply cold press process to cover graphics with cold laminating film which has good waterproof and excellent performance. Through process of laminating,the graphics will be fresh,colorfast,non-yellowing
- 【Wide Range of Application】This manual cold laminator is now widely applied in wedding photography, spraying and painting as well as mounting of poster,advertising photograph,book cover,document,calligraphy and painting,invitations and more
- 【Dual Operation Mode】--This cold roll laminator machine comes with adjustable spoon, it can switch electric / manual mode freely, to meet more requirements of film laminating. Automatic electric function, labor free, high efficiency, more accurate. Manually available if you are doing a small laminating.
- 【Wide Format Laminating】--This electric cold laminating machine adopts 51inch/1300mm laminated soft rubber roller. Max. laminating width is 1300mm/51inch. This wide format laminator is equipped with a movable support frame. It can be placed on the desktop alone or installed on the support frame.
- 【Foot Switch】-- Comes with foot switch, convenient and practical. The foot pedal can control the rotation of the laminating machine for a long distance, and one person can operate the film, saving labor and saving effort. Widening the operation table setting, making the material more convenient and easier to operate.
- 【Superior Result】--Brand new soft rubber rollers, smooth surface. With cold lamination, wrinkles or bubbles are much less likely to form. Cold laminators won't harm heat sensitive documents or photographs. Through the process of laminating, the graphics will be fresh, colorfast, non-yellowing.
- 【Widely Application】--This cold laminator machine can apply cold press process to cover graphics with cold laminating film which has good preservative waterproof and excellent performance. This method is now widely applied in wedding photography, spraying and painting as well as mounting of poster, advertising photograph, book cover, document, calligraphy and painting, invitations and more.
- Demele, Gary E (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 914 Pages - 05/27/2022 (Publication Date) - PPI, a Kaplan Company (Publisher)
- No heat, no electricity, no waiting!!!
- Easy to use and portable for home and office uses
- Preserves and protects! Great for presentations, phone lists, art projects and other frequently used documents
- No electricity needed
- Professional document finishing right at your workstation
- 4-in-1 THERMAL & COLD LAMINATOR: It comes with 1*Built-in Paper Cutter; 1*Corner Rounder; 1*User Manual; 20*Laminating Sheets(5*A3, 5*A4, 5*A5, 5*A6), providing all-in-one functionality. Hot method for normal documents, photos, and card stock, while the cold method is great for special old pictures and documents.
- Fast Warm-up, Quick Laminating: With a 90-second rapid warm-up time and a high laminating speed of up to 290mm/minute, it greatly saves you time and boosts productivity. Get your photos and documents laminated quickly and efficiently with this powerful laminator.
- Versatile and Portable: Perfect for both personal and professional use, this laminator is ideal for home, office, and school. It can laminate artwork, documents, photos, menus, letters, and more. Choose the laminating sheets of appropriate thickness (3mil, 4mil, 5mil) to lay your files. With an entry width of 230mm, it can accommodate A3/A4/A5/A6 size papers, providing versatility for all your laminating needs.
- Smooth Laminating Experience: Say Goodbye to Paper Jams with ABS button - This laminator features a specially designed anti-jam function that prevents paper jams with just one click, ensuring a seamless laminating experience. Protect your important documents from damage and enjoy a hassle-free laminating process.
- Peace of Mind Guaranteed: Enjoy the confidence of a 30-day money-back guarantee for any reason, along with a 12-month warranty for quality-related issues. Customer satisfaction is our priority, ensuring you have a worry-free experience with our product.
- 5 in 1 laminator machine Set: Including A3 laminator*1, 50pcs laminating sheets(5*A3, 5*A4, 20*A5, 20*A6), paper cutter*1, corner rounder*1, user manual*1. The paper cutter can cut pouches as your need, the rounded corner trimmer can trim the sharp edges and corners. 50pcs laminating pouches can fulfill your laminating needs.
- Efficiency and Quiet: This 11x17 laminator machine with sheets can preheat in 60-90 seconds. Meet different requirements with faster speed of 360mm/min, which can better improve your work efficiency. A quiet laminating machine can let you focus on your work, which perfect for school, office and home use.
- Support Cold and Thermal Laminator: Built-in double-roller and intelligent temperature control to protect your important documents/photos, ensuring smoother, high-quality lamination without bubbles, wrinkles or curling. There is no heating process for cold laminating, which mode needs use with self-adhesive cold seal pouches (not included).
- ABS Button: Equipped with a quick release button, the "ABS" button. If a paper jam occurs, turn off the machine and press the ABS button, then pull out the paper. ABS button solves jam problems easily and effectively, which can protect your important documents from damage.
- Widely Use:This laminator has a 13 inch wide entrance for laminating A3/A4/A5/A6 size paper, which compatible with 80-125MIC (3-5Mil) laminating pouches .such as painting, menu, letter, certificate, postcard, photo, ID card.
- 𝗨𝗜𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝟵-𝗶𝗻-𝟭 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲: Elevate your lamination experience with our versatile machine, accommodating up to 13 inches wide. This laminator, equipped with a dual-roller system and two temperature settings, comes complete with an array of essentials, including 40 laminating pouches of various sizes, a paper trimmer, corner rounder, hole puncher, and 3 binder rings.(Access the extras under the top cover of the 13-inch laminator.)
- 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝟭-𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Step into efficient lamination as our machine warms up in just 60 seconds. With a speedy 450mm/min laminating speed, it ensures impeccable results without wrinkles, blisters, or curls. This laminator machine is designed to enhance your productivity with quicker preheating.
- 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 & 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗗𝘂𝗮𝗹-𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲: Explore new horizons with our dual-roller heating system, supportin gboth thermal and cold lamination. Our laminator is your creative companion, whether you're laminating photos, crafts, or more.
- 𝗝𝗮𝗺-𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗺𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: For avid lamination machine users, say goodbye to paper jams. Our 13-inch laminator comes equipped with an ABS Jam-Release button- an ingenious solution to occasional hiccups. Easily remove jammed documents by pressing the button.(Top tip: Insert the sealed pouch end to prevent jams!)
- 𝗪𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Unleash your creativity with our lamination machine's 13-inch wide entrance,accommodating A3/A4/A5/A6 sizes and beyond. Utilize 80-125mic laminating pouches for safeguarding paintings,menus, letters, certificates, postcards, photos, ID cards, and tags - preserving your documents for the long term.
- 🆗True Mini Size: 335mm x 88mm x 65mm, only 742g, allows you to carry anywhere
- 🆗Easy to Use: One press to auto laminate, fits for 2 x 80-125mic pouches
- 🆗Fast Lamination: 1-2 Min rapid warm-up and 320mm/min high speed complete tasks soon
- 🆗HOT Mode: Perfect to laminate common papers, uses with thermal pouches
- 🆗COLD Mode: Specially designed for heat-sensitive materials, uses with self-adhesive pouches. You can use the cold system to laminate temperature-sensitive items.
- 🆗2-Roller System: Quick and even heating delivers bubble- and wrinkle-free lamination
- 🆗A4 Wide Inlet: Suitable for various items with max. width of 230mm/9 inches
How to choose a good manual laminators
Does the idea of finding a fantastic manual laminators make you anxious? When it comes to purchasing this product, specifically when deciding which model to select, has your head been spinning between options? You are not alone if that is the case. We are aware of the pressure involved in the purchasing process!
Your presence here indicates that you are interested in manual laminators. Before choosing which product would be the best for your needs after being inundated with information, locate a reliable source with genuine selections. You can get that information from a variety of sources, including buying guides and rating websites, word-of-mouth recommendations from friends and family, online discussion forums where users can share their own experiences, product reviews that can be found all over the internet, and YouTube channels. You can only get the right product through exhaustive analysis. But you realize that’s not always simple. In order to ease your concerns, we have taken the time to develop a list of the top manual laminators products available right now. You might be wondering how we came up with the list. How was this buying guide developed?
First, we used our algorithms to gather as much reliable data as we could about these products. To verify all the data gathered, we used both artificial intelligence and a lot of algorithms.
Then, our experts used criteria that are recognized in the business to evaluate them according to their quality to price ratio, allowing us to choose the top manual laminators on the market right now!
The selection of the goods is not arbitrary. Before creating a list, we take into account a number of factors. Below are some of the criteria discussed:
Brand Value: What happens if you choose a dubious brand just because it appears to be a good deal? So the likelihood of receiving a product with a short shelf life increases. That is due to the fact that well-known brands have a reputation to uphold, while others do not. Top manual laminators brands strive to provide some distinctive traits that set them apart from the competition. So, hopefully one or more of the items on our list will be perfect for you.
Features: Useful features are all you need, not tons of them. We consider the important aspects and select the top manual laminators based on those.
Specifications: Numbers always help you measure the quality of a product in a quantitative way. We try to find products with higher specifications, but with the right balance.
Quality: A product’s quality may always be quantified with the aid of numbers. We look for goods with better standards that strike the proper balance. The best quality product that gets highly appreciated and recommended by experienced users.
Customer ratings: Would it be accurate to suggest that the manual laminators were used by hundreds of customers before you? Superior ratings indicate that many customers had better service.
Customer Reviews: Like ratings, provide you with accurate and reliable information about the product from genuine customers. Customer ratings are very important to all of us because they contain accurate and reliable information about the customer service we received from several hundred customers.
Seller Rank: This is very intriguing! Not only do you need a good manual laminators, you also need a product with rising sales that is trendy. It accomplishes two goals. First, the expanding user base proves the quality of the product. Second, given that number, producers must be able to offer greater quality and after-sales support.
Value: You get what you pay for, they say, so consider the value. Cheap isn’t always good and expensive isn’t always bad. However, that does not imply that spending a lot of money on a product that is flashy but underwhelming is a good idea. Before adding them to the list, we make an effort to evaluate how much value you can get for your money from your manual laminators.
Durability: Durability and reliability are closely related concepts. You will benefit from a strong and long-lasting manual laminators for months and years to come.
Product availability: Products come and go, and new ones replace the old ones. Most likely, a few new features and required changes were made. What use is it to use a supposedly good product if the maker no longer supports it? We make an effort to highlight products that are current and offered by one or more trustworthy sellers, if not more.
Negative Reviews: Yes, we do take that into account as well! The goods with the majority of bad reviews are filtered out and disregarded when we choose the best-rated one on the market.
These are the standards by which we selected our manual laminators. Do we end our process there? Hell no. The most crucial fact about us that you should be aware of is that we regularly update our website with current and pertinent information. We have one more layer of filtration since we place the greatest importance on reader satisfaction. Please let us know if any product included here is incorrect, irrelevant, subpar, or simply out of date. We always value your opinions, and we’ll work hard to make any necessary corrections to our list in response to them.
Why should you believe us?
There are now thousands of possibilities for these products on Amazon, but choosing the best one can be difficult and time-consuming. And what manual laminators should you purchase in 2022?
This guide is the result of more than 10 years of experience in researching, testing and writing about many topics. Each member of our team is an authority in their area. We read every article we could find online and every consumer review on every retail website for seven hours. Additionally, we discovered a ton of websites that offered helpful resources, including buying tips and thorough information on manual laminators.
