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Lassco Wizer Cr50p Electric Floor Standing Cornerounder Corner Cutter Review

Overview:

• The Lassco Wizer CR50P is a heavy duty floor standing corner rounding unit that is ideal for industrial applications and commercial printers.
• It is designed to allow you to quickly and easily add round corners to your documents, printed materials, business cards, and promotional items. It is simple to use, powerful and incredibly versatile.
• This review will take a look at both the strengths and weaknesses of the CR50P corner rounding machine.

Strengths / Features:

• The Lassco Wizer CR-50p electric cornerounder is one of the most versatile corner rounding machines available on the market. It can accept all sizes of corner rounding units. In fact, you can add a radius as small as 1/8″ to your items using this machine or as large as 1-1/2″. All you need to do is add the correct die. Plus the dies are simple to add and replace. All you need to do is loosen a couple of thumb screws, pop the old die out and insert the new die.
• The CR50P has a mechanism that holds down the stack of documents during the cutting process. Plus, you use a foot pedal to engage the cutting unit which means that you use both hands to hold the materials during the corner rounding process.
• The Lassco Wizer CR-50P has a heavy duty hardwood top that makes it simple to handle large format documents and stacks of materials. This hard wood top makes it simple to line up your documents during the rounding process.
• It is fast, easy to use and extremely versatile. It is not quite as fast as the CR50PX which is a pneumatic unit but is considerably faster than the CR50 which is a manual unit.

Weaknesses / Limitations:

• When rounding the corners on a large stack of paper or on heavier stocks I found that the entire document table on the CR50P flexed. This caused the documents to shift slightly and for the stack to not be rounded perfectly. Individually each item looked fine. However, in a stack you could see how the stack shifted during rounding. The only way that I found to fix this was to round the corners of the documents from one side and then to flip them over and round them from the other side. However, if you don’t want to do that you can always just round smaller sections at one time.
• The CR50p uses a special system to hold the materials in place when rounding the corners. This works fairly well. However, it does tend to leave marks on the top document. In order to prevent this you need to use a piece of chipboard or an extra sheet of heavy cardstock that can be thrown away after it is rounded.
• The chips produced when rounding corners with the CR50P are supposed to fall down a special chute and into a box or waste receptacle that you place under the unit. However, the chips sometimes back up within the cutting dies and need to be cleaned out. In order to deal with this you simply need to remove the cutting unit from the corner rounder and blow the chips out of it.

Recommendation:

• The CR50P is an excellent option for print shops and industrial corner rounding applications. It is a heavy duty commercial corner rounder and is actually the cornerounder that we choose to use in our production facilities.
• Although this is a good quality corner rounder it is not the most accurate corner rounder available on the market. It if is essential that all of your corners line up when stacked up it might be better to look at a larger unit such as the Diamond 5 which allows you to round a larger stack of materials at one time.
• The CR50P is incredibly versatile and allows for cutting a huge number of radius corners. Check it out for yourself today.

About the Author

If you need more information or would like to purchase the Lassco Wizer CR50P Electric Floor Standing Cornerounder Corner Cutter or any of the other Corner Rounders that we carry please feel to visit our site or contact us with your questions.

This review was written by Jeff McRitchie who is the director of marketing for Mybinding.com. Jeff has written more than three hundred articles and more than two hundred reviews on Binding Machines, Binding Supplies, Report Covers, 3-Ring Binders, Index Tabs, Laminators, Laminating Supplies, Paper Shredders and Paper Handling Equipment

Swingline Ingento 18″ x 18″ Maple Guillotine Cutter Review

The Ingento 18″ x 18″ is a very popular guillotine cutter from Swingline. Here is a look at some of this machines various strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths and Features:

1. Perhaps the greatest feature of the Ingento 18″ x 18″ is the Ingento name itself. These paper trimmers are considered the industry standard and they are in use in schools, churches, and commercial print shops all over the world. They have a great reputation that they have earned by providing years of faithful service, and we see no reason why this machine won’t do the same.
2. Part and parcel of the reputation for durability, of course, is the solid construction of the Ingento 18″ x 18″. Using a base that is made of a chunk of solid maple, and a cutting arm that has been die cast of high-quality metal, this is a machine is built to last. This is a machine that has a nice weight to it, giving you a solid feel that leads to clean and precise cuts. There are rubber feet on the bottom of the machine that prevent it from slipping as well.
3. Safety features are very important when it comes to guillotine paper cutters, and the Ingento 18″ x 18″ has a few that are worth noting. First, there is a latch for keeping the cutting arm locked down and immobile when the machine is not being used. There is also a steel spring tension system that keeps the cutting arm up in any position so that it will not drop if you take your hand off of it. And finally, there is a guard rail located on the base that will keep the fingers of the hand that is holding your paper well away from the blade.
4. The blade itself is made of high quality stainless steel and actually sharpens itself while you are using it. It can handle not only regular paper, but photos, laminated sheets, and heavier stocks as well. Of course, any blade can get a few dings over time from accidental misuse and the like. The blade of the Ingento 18″ x 18″ can be taken off and sharpened, or replaced entirely if need be, saving you money over the cost of a new trimmer.
5. The 18 inch blade on this machine not only allows you to cut letter and legal sized sheets with ease, it can handle larger custom sized projects as well. It may take up a little more space than its little brothers on the line, but it will still fit on the average desktop, and the increased capacity makes it worth it.

Weaknesses and Limitations:

1. The 15 sheet capacity (per lift) is suitable for up to medium duty use, but if you are going to be cutting thousands of sheets per week, you might want to look for a machine that can do a little more just to save time and effort.
2. The safety features are well conceived, but guillotine trimmers like this one should not be used by inexperienced users unless they are being closely supervised. The same, obviously goes for children, should you be buying the machine for a school.

About the Author

If you are interested in more information about the Swingline 18×18 Ingento Paper Cutter, you might want to visit MyBinding.com. They offer a great price on binding equipment and they even offer Free Shipping on orders over $75.00. Plus, they carry a full line of Guillotine Cutters, of all types and capabilities. Check it out today!

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