Lamination paper at home without a laminator

In everyday life, people very often have to use various documents. Unfortunately, not all of them are made of thick and high-quality paper, they have a casing or a cover preventing them from being damaged. In these cases lamination comes to the rescue. I.e plastic sheeting of paper sheet to make everyday carrying such documents safer. This deprives their owner of anxiety about the safety and appearance of the necessary papers. However, it happens that you need to laminate something very urgent, and special equipment for this is not at hand. It's not scary! The protective shell can be made even without a laminator.

Next will be considered a few simple ways to carry out the lamination independently improvised means.

Lamination materials

Before proceeding to the lamination procedure at home, you should consider the necessary materials that you need to stock up before work.

REFERENCE! Materials are selected depending on the method of lamination, which will be selected.

File

One of the easiest ways is lamination using a regular stationery file. This method is the most budget, it will require only the presence of an iron, a sheet of paper and, in fact, a file.

Lamination Film

You can use a special film for the laminator. It is usually sold in packs of 100 pieces, does not differ in high cost and is available on the shelves of almost any household or office supply store.

REFERENCE! The films differ in thickness, which is measured in microns. The range of choice of films is quite large: from 77 to 200 microns, where 75 is the thinnest, and 200 is the densest film.

It is difficult to tell which film to choose. Many like those that are "thinner." Look at those papers that are already covered with such protection. This will help you understand which layer you want to get.

By itself, the film is a kind of "pocket", the sides of which can be connected either vertically or horizontally. Inside there is a thin layer of glue; when heated, it sticks the film to the paper.

Additional materials

• To secure the protective layer is required iron.
• You can not do without scissors and rulers.

How to mine the text at home without a laminator

Despite the abundance of types of carrying out this procedure at home, they are all done according to a single instruction, where only source materials can change places.

• Take a home iron, which must be brought to its average temperature.

IMPORTANT! When heating, you should be very careful, because in case of overheating there is a high risk to spoil both the film and the document itself.

• The desired document is located between the parts of the film pocket.
• From the corner where the halves connect, the entire surface is gently ironed, rubbing the bubbles that appear.
• In the process of "sticking", under the action of temperature, if the film was matte, then it should acquire transparency and become tough to the touch.
• If you do not heat the iron too much, then it does not stick to plastic in the process. However, to avoid material damage. It is recommended to use as a sheet of paper.
• If during the lamination process there is a bubble with air, you can try to dislodge it with an ordinary dry cloth.