Product Description
The GBC HeatSeal H525 commercial photo quality laminator offers quality, high speed lamination with desktop convenience. Heated roller design offers exceptional quality on photos and other glossy stocks. Ideal for light commercial-duty including small or medium-sized office use, the 12.5" GBC HeatSeal H525 Photo Quality Pouch Laminator conveniently laminates menus, letter or legal documents, photos, badges, luggage tags, and business cards. Photo-quality lamination technology utilizing four heated rollers allows picture-perfect, clear lamination without bubbles or wrinkles on all glossy stocks. Innovative ReadyGlo? lamp illuminates the laminator throat indicating the machine is ready for use. Provides variable temperature and speed utilizing a one-touch digital keypad and LCD readout, plus a cold lamination setting, allows lamination of 1.5 mil up to 10 mil thermal pouches, designer mounting boards, and self adhesive pouches. Sleek, modern design compliments office decor. UL and cUL listed. Limited one-year warranty.
Product Details
- 12.5" document entry for laminating menu, letter or legal size documents, photos, badges, luggage tags, and business cards.
- One-touch digital keypad with LCD readout.
- 1.5 Mil to 10 Mil and mounting board lamination capability.
- Four hot rollers provide photo-quality lamination.
- Variable temperature, including both hot and cold settings, for compatibility with thermal and self-adhesive pouch products.
- Utilization of a carrier is optional.
- Speedy warm-up shown with ReadyGlo ready indicator light.
- Laminates at a fixed speed of 20-inches per minute.
- Reverse motor feature to assist in the clearing or prevention of pouch jams.
- Limited one-year warranty.
- Dimensions: 23.25" x 14.5" x 8.75"
- Weight: 22.16 lbs
- Part Number: 1701550 , G1701550
Staff Review
GBC HeatSeal H525 Photo-Quality Pouch Laminator Review
General Binding Corporation (GBC) has a great line of pouch laminators known as the HeatSeal series. One of the machines in this series, the H525 Photo-Quality Pouch Laminator, is definitely a device that you should look at if you need a laminator. It offers beautiful document finishing, it’s easy to use, and it operates quickly. It can also work with a lot of different types of pouches so you’ll have a lot of lamination options. Here are the details of this device as well as a note as to whether it’s worth the money or not.
The details:
- The H525 has a wide feed opening that’s 12.5″ across. Due to the size of the opening, you’ll be able to laminate a lot of different items both small (business cards) and large (menus).
- This laminator is easy to operate because it has an LCD display. You control the machine via a digital keypad and it’s easy to get the hang of.
- This machine can handle a wide range of both thermal and self-sealing pouches, including ones that are 10 mil thick. You’ll also be able to laminate mounting boards, which isn’t a common feature on most laminators.
- The H525 has fully adjustable speed and temperature settings. It can do both hot and cold lamination, so you’ll be able to laminate thermally sensitive items including photographs and documents printed with water-based ink. The machine has four hot rollers so you’ll be able to enjoy high-quality lamination that’s free of bubbles and other imperfections.
- This laminator heats up rather quickly and is equipped with a ReadyGlo light so you’ll know when you can start laminating. Once it’s ready to go, it can process up to 20 inches of material in 60 seconds. If you experience a pouch jam, the H525 has a reverse motor feature that can help you clear it up in a jiffy.
- GBC has marketed the H525 as a carrier-free device. However, you should still use a carrier because it will prevent the adhesive in your pouches from getting all over the rollers. If that happens, it can seriously damage the machine.
- This machine is a bit on the large size. Its dimensions are 23.25″ x 14.5″ x 8.75″. However, it does look great, and will be a nice addition to your office.
- The H525 comes with a limited one-year warranty. It’s also very reasonably priced for a device that offers such high-quality lamination.
The verdict:
The GBC HeatSeal H525 is definitely one of the better pouch laminators available. It’s remarkably easy to use and it really does offer near-perfect lamination at an unbeatable price. This is one of those rare devices that can handle both 10 mil pouches and mounting boards, so that alone is enough to recommend the machine. The only downside to this device is its rather large size, but if space isn’t an issue, you’re going to find the H525 is the perfect machine all of your lamination needs.
