The Enhanced HSTS 3048 High Speed Two Sided
Thermal Laminating System


SIGNIFICANT Features & Performance Comparisons Between "The AUTOFEEDS HSTS 3048"
(When Compared With Other Competitive Products)


  • Autofeeds can run 8 1/2" x 11" products landscape, which increase productivity by 20% as compared with running portrait.
  • Autofeeds can accommodate paper weights down to the 20lb and up to .060" flawlessly and at 100 ft/minute without feeder adjustment.
  • Autofeeds provides a 48" long sheet capacity and offers a 60" option, unique to the industry.
  • Autofeeds provides a programmable controller and simple operator interface for sheet pitch/gap set up and adjustment on the fly.
  • Autofeeds provides completely unencumbered feeder loading access from the front side for comfort and safety when loading smaller sizes.
  • Autofeeds provided an angled roller registration conveyor, unique to the industry, that alternates as a hand feed table without and set up or equipment adjustment permitting instant hand feeding down to post card size.
  • Autofeeds provides heat roll shields, unique to the industry, that maintains heat on the adhesive side of the film. This feature also seconds as a nip guard through solid state interlocking proximity switches.
  • Autofeeds provides solid cast aluminum electricity heated rolls, unique to the industry, for maximum heat retention, and no risk of cracking as do the ceramic rolls.
  • Autofeeds provides independent heat consoles essential for differential film lamination of varying calipers or varying chemistry or single work where the lower heat roll can be turned off.
  • Autofeeds provides a reverse roll wrap laminating roll disengagement pin, unique to the industry, for immediate removal of film wraps on the laminating rollers. This feature also enhances cleaning, with the machine locked out providing for the ability to turn rollers easily and safely by hand.
  • Autofeeds provides automatic, pneumatic, operator adjustable, film web tension controls, unique to the industry, eliminating operator intervention as film rolls expire or when different diameter or different construction film rolls are loaded.
  • Autofeeds provided an automatically engaging rear heat roll idler, unique to the industry, for web up without the risk of burning hands and maximizing film web wrap on the heat rolls.
  • Autofeeds provides a lower film unwind trolley, unique to the industry, for outboard loading of 18" diameter film rolls.
  • Autofeeds provides fans and shill rolls as standard with the ability to add a second bank of fans and the ability to adjust chill roll contact. The Autofeeds chills are engaged utilizing the exact same web path, negating the necessity to cut and re-route the web.
  • Autofeeds provides the inherent flexibility to run the unoriented embossible polyester cast security films, gaining enormous popularity with the phone card, and ID card manufacturers.
  • Autofeeds provides the inherent flexibility to run at 100 ft/minute when double cutting an 8 1/2" x 11" letter size product running in the landscape mode.
  • Autofeeds provides the inherent flexibility to run single side work gapped and cut via the encapsulated method.
  • Autofeeds provides a pull roll air clutch which maintains perfect tension stability no matter what the film roll diameter. Our competitors favor fixed gains and rely upon the pull rolls to allow slippage of film and product creating tension oscillation in the gaps and tension build up as the film rolls diminish.
  • Autofeeds provides edge trim knife guides/guards. unique to the industry, permitting the waste edge to be wound up without traveling through the pull rolls while protecting the operator from injury.
  • Autofeeds utilizes toothed belt pulleys, precision timing belts, printer class sealed bearing and solid state electronics throughout. This quality of machine build is unique to the industry.
  • Autofeeds offers double film unwinds, unique to the industry, enabling film rolls to be prepared on the machine while running, reducing the down time between roll changes to 90 seconds or less. (This feature also permits encapsulation of book covers in cheap polypropylene while leaving the spine exposed for the bindery utilizing side by side upper film rolls).
  • Autofeeds offers an integrated electric film roll hoist, which eliminates any manual lifting of film rolls into the machine.

This is by no means a complete list, rather these are the most significant differences that become immediately obvious when direct comparisons are being made with our competitors.

Ease of operation and outright versatility are matters that become clear during trials that we actively encourage on the most difficult materials. Outright speed is but one issue, and our system is proven to exceed and competitors yield, on any like film by as much as 75%.