With Summer winding down and back-to-school on its way, now is a great time to start getting your kids settled into a routine. For many parents, that can mean instituting (or reinstituting) a chore chart. Chore charts are easy to make and even easier to find online. The information added will depend highly on your child’s age, abilities, needs, etc. Recently two of our employees, Chelsea and Tarragon, got together with our children (six between the two of us!) and created individual chore charts. Here’s how we did it.

First, we went to ChoreCharts.com and picked out exactly what we needed. ChoreCharts.com has hundreds of styles and designs, and not just for chores. On this site, we found options for chore charts, behavior charts, and reward charts. Even with six kids of all different ages, we were able to find designs that matched each child’s personality.

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A lot of people choose the laminate their documents and photographs. Laminating these items makes them last longer so you won’t need to reprint them, saving you time. Also, lamination can enhance photographs and documents, so they’ll look great. Although laminating your items might sound intimidating, it’s actually pretty easy to do if you use a pouch laminator or self-sealing laminating pouches. This Hub will take a look at these two methods and educate you on how to use them. Let’s get started.

Using a pouch laminator:

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Laminators are essential machines that can come in handy in a variety of work environments especially offices and schools. There are essentially two types of laminators (pouch and roll) and they’re both made by some first-rate manufacturers. These companies range from well-known ones (Fellowes, GBC) to ones that aren’t too familiar to people outside the document finish industry (Drytac, Tamerica). If you’re looking for a laminator, there are some names you should for. Here are seven of them. Check them out so you can learn which names are the best in one area of the document finishing industry.

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When you need to protect your documents from overhandling, tears, and spills, there’s no better way to do so than by using a pouch laminator. These devices are terrific for a variety of environments including the home, the office, and schools, but you should know a bit about them before investing in one. That said, here’s an article that’s all about pouch laminators. There’s even a brief tutorial on how to use one of them. Let’s get started….

Hot and cold lamination. Pouch laminators are thermal devices that heat up to melt the adhesive in sheaths which are known as laminating pouches. Hot lamination is good for most items, but there are times when you might need to use a cold device. Cold lamination is best for items like ink-jet printouts and photographs because these items can be easily damaged by heat. If you plan on regularly working with these materials, select a machine with a cold setting so you can laminate them using self-adhesive pouches.

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Have you been wanting to do something to your documents to make them last longer? If so, it’s time to consider laminating them. Lamination is a pretty easy process – we even have a video that can show you how to do it. However, there are a few things you need to know about lamination before you can successfully protect your documents. Let’s get started!

First of all, you’re going to use a pouch laminator. These machines come in a number of sizes and they can laminate a variety of items such as business cards, marketing materials, technical specs, and much more. You need to use a machine that will be able to accommodate your items. For example, a machine with a 5-inch feed opening can laminate name tags but it won’t be able to accommodate letter-sized documents. However, a laminator with a 9-inch feed opening can accommodate both letter-sized documents and name tags. So choose a machine that will work with your documents.

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