As you might have noticed MyBinding.com carries standard generic laminating pouches and the full line of GBC premium laminating pouches. Many of our customers prefer the exceptional quality that comes with the GBC / Ibico brand and are willing to pay a little bit more for these excellent quality pouches. However, if you aren’t one of those customers who is generally willing to pay a little bit more for the brand name product you might still consider GBC’s letter size laminating pouches. These pouches include a great feature not found on most generic pouches; they are sealed on the long side instead of the short side of the pouch. Here are two reasons why this will make a difference to you when you laminate your documents…

1. Document Alignment: One of the benefits of using a pouch laminator to laminate your documents is that no trimming is required for laminating your documents (provided you use the correct size of laminating pouches). You simply insert your document into the pouch and run it through your laminator and it leaves a nice edge around your document to ensure lasting protection (provided you center your document evenly inside the laminating pouch). However, if you do not get the document centered inside the laminating pouch the edges are not even and the document needs to be trimmed. With GBC’s long side sealed letter sized laminating pouches centering your documents inside the laminating pouches is much easier. You simply align the 11" edge of your document so that it is parallel with the sealed side of your laminating pouch and it is ready to laminate. This is much simpler than attempting to align your document with the short edge of the pouch since the whole document can easily become askew if it is not perfectly aligned at the top.

2. Productivity: In addition the time saved in aligning your documents inside of their laminating pouches, Long side sealed letter sized laminating pouches are also much faster to laminate than short side sealed pouches. For the best results, laminating pouches should always be run through the laminator with the sealed side entering first. This ensures that your documents do not have wrinkles, imperfections or air bubbles in them when they are laminated. With short side sealed laminating pouches this means that you need to run letter sized documents through your laminator the long way (11.5 inches must pass through the laminator). However, with GBC long side sealed laminating pouches you can run the pouches through your laminator the shorter way (only 9 inches must pass through the laminator). Thus, it takes 22% less time to run long side sealed pouches through your laminator than it takes to run short side sealed laminating pouches through your laminator.

GBC makes long side sealed letter sized laminating pouches as part of their ultra clear line of laminating pouches and as part of their crystal clear line of laminating pouches. Both of these lines of pouches are available in 3mil, 5mil and 10mil thicknesses and are available in the Premium GBC Laminating Pouches section of our website.