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Use Lamination To Protect And Preserve Your Posters

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Lamination involves sealing flat material (such as posters, documents or ID cards) between two plastic sheets. Lamination provides a variety of benefits:

Lamination: Preserves & Protects:

This list identifies some of the ways lamination protects your materials and gives an example for each.

  • Protects from spills: science experiment instructions
  • Protects from rain: marching band music
  • Protects from grease and chemicals: auto shop maintenance check list
  • Protects from smudges & fingerprints: presentation material
  • Protects from abrasion: reusable instructional materials
  • Protects from the sun: outdoor directional signs
  • Protects from creases and wrinkles: historical documents

Lamination: Improved Appearance:

These are a few of the ways lamination improves the appearance of your materials.

  • Enhances contrast
  • Dirt, grease and smudges can be cleaned off
  • Gloss, matte or satin finishes are available

Lamination gives your materials a finished, professional look of quality. Something that is laminated just looks better!

Lamination: Saves Money:

Lamination can save you money in a variety of ways, such as:

  • Laminated materials can be reused
  • Valuable graphics are protected
  • Stiffens signs and posters (additional backing material is not required)
  • Make low-cost signs that resist weather

Lamination provides a durable way to protect and enhance almost any type of printed material. It improves the quality of materials by enhancing color and contrast, and providing a glossy "wet" look.