Fellowes Venus VL-125 Laminator
The Fellowes Venus Laminator is one of the premium office laminators that laminate hot or cold and a variety of thickness laminating pouches for at home or office convenience.
Ease of Use, Performance: 24/25
Look & Feel: 23/25
Features 25/25
How much I enjoy 23/25
Total: 95/100
Laminators have come a long way in such a short time; my wife’s daycare has this behemoth laminator that takes rolls of plastic to laminate their projects. This may be the perfect laminator for large objects such as posters but it is such a pain to use and change the rolls of plastic. A day care is the perfect example of a work situation that requires a laminator that works well and is not only easy to use but safe.
They are occasionally forgetting it and leaving the heater on which is not exactly a safe situation but I won’t even get into trying to replace the roll of laminating plastic. To laminate several objects like photos and letter sized papers they want to use for games or hang up they have to sit and place each item, hold them in place as it starts to go into the machine and wait for it to come out the other side.
Yes, they can laminate poster sized objects but they do that so very rarely, mostly they laminate letter sized posters and smaller stuff for games and activities so they last longer than a day or two. Using a laminator should be easy and the Fellowes people know how to construct not only safe and reliable products but easy to operate ones.
The Fellowes Venus Laminator is a great laminator and so very easy to use as well as having several safety features like an automatic lock so you cannot open the cover when it is hot. No getting near the heating rollers or any of the insides until it cools off so you can’t burn yourself, even when it is off and unplugged.
This perplexed me when I first opened the box and tried to peer inside at the inner workings of the good looking laminator, I just wanted to check out the insides when I first received it. Then I read some of the accompanying pamphlets and saw a screw that holds the unit closed in shipping and thought my problems were solved. I still could not open the cover and decided to read the manual and find out if there was something else holding it closed as it seemed to be held shut in one spot.