This unique device imparts VERY high pressure with heated rollers unlike other brands that use flat heater plates without any pressure to speak of - those types of laminators do not work at all. This unit performs like a multi-thousand dollar "hot roll" laminator at an affordable price. The trick to all of this is that the manufacturer (GBC) externally heats the rollers by radiating heat into the neopreme-coated rollers positioned from heaters positioned 180º away from where the rollers touch each other, (eg. one heater mounted above the top roller and one below the bottom roller). This amazingly simple engineering trick makes manufacturing of this device inexpensive yet performs like the very expensive (upwards of $2,000) internally heated, large format hot roll laminators.

This GBC 9" laminator will make absolutely perfect circuit boards up to 8" x 10" in size and is also used to apply the Green & WhiteTRF films for making extremely impressive boards. (The "GreenTRF" is applied over the toner image to prevent pitting during the etching process and the "WhiteTRF" is used for making what looks just like a conventional silk-screened layer on the board and voila! one commercially looking PCB ready for populating and soldering. Strange as it may sound, making PCB's is now actually fun because it's so simple. The best part is that an entire double-sided PCB can be made in under 15 minutes! The only drawback of our system is that you are limited to a maximum board size of 8" x 10" and only single and double-sided.