Carrier - Lamination pouches are placed in a carrier. The carrier looks like poster board, but is glossy on the inside. The carrier prevents excess lamination glue from getting on your rollers.

Clear Roll Film - An everyday film that will adhere to most ink lay downs. Clear is popular with schools and copy shops because it works great on a variety of substances. Clear gives your document a glass-like appearance. Temperature range: 210°-275°

Cold Lamination - Cold lamination film is done by using pouches with a sticky inside that applies to the product being laminated.

Core Thickness - Most laminators, 12 to 27 inches, use lamination with a one inch core. The core is the hole that runs through the lamination film. Roll laminators, 40+ inches, use anywhere from a 2 1/4-inch core up to a three inch core. Your laminator manual should show you what size core you need to use.

Dry mounting - A thermal process, which uses a heat-activated adhesive (dry mount tissue) to adhere the back of an image to foam board, mount board or another paper-surface mounting substrate. It may be done with a press or with some types of laminators. It has often been used by framers in the art and photo markets.

Hot Lamination - Lamination is done with heat. Heat activates the lamination film causing it to attach to the product being laminated.

Matte Film - Matte pouches have a slightly granular, frosted texture to reduce glare. Due to their texture, these pouches will accept pencil, pen, marker, and reduce smudging. Excellent for both indoor and outdoor applications.

Mil Thickness - The thickness of lamination film is known as the mil thickness (thousandths of an inch).

Polyester - The base or outer protective layer of most thermal laminating film. It does not melt during the thermal laminating process. It is also the base layer of many PSA films.

Polyethylene - The adhesive almost always used in thermal films. During hot lamination it liquefies. The lamination takes place in the nip. Fans or chill rollers in the laminator then help cool the adhesive so it becomes a flexible solid again.

Pressure Sensitive - Lamination film that has at least one side that is sticky. The sticky side will attach to the product being laminated. Pressure-sensitive pouches have a stick back which allows them to be used as stickers.

Pressure Sensitive Pouch - Pressure-Sensitive Pouches have a sticky backing. After a Pressure-Sensitive Pouch has been passed through a laminator, the back can be pealed off and stuck to a surface.

Select Pouch Film - Select Film is U.S.-made lamination film. Usually considered the best quality, Select Film costs more than the Standard Clear Film.

Standard Clear Pouch Film - Standard Clear Film is the most common form of film used for lamination. Standard Film is imported from overseas, which is why the cost of standard clear film is usually less than the U.S.-made Select Film. The quality in the past was poorer than Select Film, but is now about the same.

UV/UL Pouches - UV/UL Pouches are usually used for outdoor lamination. The UV/UL Pouches are able to filter out harmful UV/UL rays from the sun, which cause fading.

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