Wholesale laminating for the print trade · Since 1998
Lamination ServicesWe Laminate What You Print.50–70% Below Staples.
Menus, placards, placemats, posters, signage — sent to us flat, sealed on our own machines in Henderson, Nevada, shipped back ready to sell. Printers, agencies and restaurant groups have used us as their back shop for 25 years.
Or call (310) 871-4933 and ask for Ida, Mon–Fri, Pacific. Tell her your size, quantity and mil and you get a real number on the call.
- Trade pricing — we quote printers and resellers, not walk-ins
- 1.5 mil to 10 mil, gloss or matte, up to 27″ wide, any length
- 100% made by Americans in Henderson, Nevada
The whole reason to call us
The Same Letter-Size Sheet, Four Different Prices
These are the published walk-in rates at the three places most people take a laminating job. Not one of them publishes a volume break — the price is the same whether you bring one sheet or five hundred. We are a wholesale laminator, so our price falls as your run grows, because our cost does.
That is 55% below Staples and 68% below FedEx Office, at 250 pieces — and the gap widens every step up the ladder. Office Depot looks close until you read the fine print: their same-day laminating excludes quantities over 15 sheets. The cheapest retail price on the board is not available to anyone ordering a real run.
| Laminating only · gloss or matte · 5 mil | 100 | 250 | 500 | 1,000 | 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.25″ × 5.5″ cards, tags | $0.62 | $0.44 | $0.36 | $0.29 | call |
| 5.5″ × 8.5″ half-page | $0.84 | $0.61 | $0.49 | $0.41 | call |
| 8.5″ × 11″ letter, menus | $1.18 | $0.89 | $0.72 | $0.58 | call |
| 8.5″ × 14″ legal, long menus | $1.44 | $1.08 | $0.87 | $0.71 | call |
| 11″ × 17″ tabloid, placemats | $2.05 | $1.54 | $1.24 | $1.01 | call |
| 12″ × 18″ oversize | $2.38 | $1.79 | $1.44 | $1.17 | call |
Everywhere else it is a checkbox
Look at how the big printers sell this. Lamination is a finishing option you tick at the end of a print order — often with no price next to it at all. Nobody sells laminating as the product. We do, because it is the only thing we do.
Their “volume pricing” often isn't
We priced a competitor's laminated menu at 25 pieces and at 1,000. Identical per-piece price at both. That is a price list with a volume column that does nothing. Ours moves at every break, and the table above is the whole thing.
Retail quietly caps the order
The cheapest counter rate we found excludes quantities over fifteen sheets. Retail print counters are built for a walk-in with a certificate, not a printer with a skid. Past about a hundred pieces you are not their customer.
Laminating your sheets. Send them flat and we seal, trim and pack. Want us to print them too? We do wholesale colour printing as well — ask for the combined rate, it is cheaper than buying the two separately. 3 mil and 1.5 mil run less; 7 and 10 mil run more. Round-corner, hole-punch and slit are pennies, not surcharges.
Get the full wholesale price list → — every size, every mil, every finish, on one page.
Anything printed on paper
What We Laminate
If it is printed on paper and it needs to survive being handled, spilled on, wiped down or hung outdoors, it comes through our shop.
Restaurant Menus
Single sheet, folded or multi-panel. Wipe-clean, spill-proof, reprint-cheap.
Placards & Signage
Wall signs, table tents, shelf talkers, safety and instruction cards.
Placemats
Tabloid and oversize, round-cornered. The workhorse of family restaurants.
Posters & Maps
Up to 27″ wide and as long as you need. Gloss for punch, matte for glare-free.
Badges, Tags & Cards
ID badges, luggage tags, membership and loyalty cards, price tags, bookmarks, teaching aids. Slit, punched and round-cornered to spec.
Oversize & Odd Sizes
Anything up to 27″ wide runs on our roll laminators at any length. Odd trim is a Tuesday here, not a surcharge conversation.
Trade & White Label
We are the back shop for printers, agencies and franchise groups. Blind ship to your customer with your packing slip. Your client never sees us.
Get the spec right
Gloss Or Matte, 1.5 Mil To 10 Mil
Most people order the wrong thickness and find out after the run. Here is the short version, and if you are unsure, call and describe the job — that conversation takes two minutes and saves a reprint.
- 1.5–3 mil — menus and inserts that stay flexible and fold. Cheapest per sheet.
- 5 mil — the default. Stiff enough for a menu that gets handled fifty times a day.
- 7–10 mil — placemats, outdoor signage, anything that has to stand up on its own.
- Gloss — colour pops, deepest blacks. Shows fingerprints under hard light.
- Matte — no glare under downlights or flash. The right call for anything photographed or read at an angle.
Why cheap lamination fails
A Bad Seal Shows Up Three Weeks Later
Delamination at the corner. A milky haze across a dark solid. Silvering along the edge where the film never bonded. None of it is visible the day the box arrives — it shows up after the menus have been through a few shifts, and by then they are your problem, not the printer's.
- Heat and pressure matched to your stock — coated stock and uncoated stock do not seal the same, and a shop running one setting all day gets one of them wrong.
- Sealed edge, not a cut edge — we leave a proper bond around the perimeter so the film cannot lift.
- Solids checked before the run — heavy ink coverage is where silvering happens. We look first.
Working with us
Four Steps, And You Talk To A Person In All Of Them
Tell us the job
Size, quantity, mil, gloss or matte — or just describe what it is for and we will tell you what it should be. Call Ida or send the form.
Get a real number
A wholesale quote from a human who has run the machine, not an auto-calculator that has never seen your stock. Same business day.
Ship us flat sheets
Or we print them for you. Either way they arrive here, get sealed on our machines, trimmed and finished to your spec.
Back on your dock
Packed the way you asked, blind-shipped to your customer if you want. Then your spec is on file — the reorder is one phone call.
Who we are
A Real Shop In Henderson, Nevada
Lamination Services, Inc. has been the laminating back shop for print brokers, sign shops, agencies and restaurant groups for over 25 years. We are not a marketplace, we are not a reseller, and we are not a retail counter with a pouch machine. We own the laminators, we run them ourselves, and everything ships from our own floor.
That is also why the price works. A retail print counter is selling you a service they treat as an add-on. Laminating is the only thing we do.
Our guarantee
If The Seal Fails, We Reprint It Free
Delamination, silvering, haze, a lifted corner — if the lamination fails on a piece we sealed, we run the job again at our cost and we pay the freight both ways. No tolerance percentage, no “within industry norms,” no returning the boxes first.
- 90 days from delivery, because a bad seal shows up weeks later, not on the dock.
- Freight both directions is ours — you do not pay to ship back a job we got wrong.
- No return required. Send a photo. We believe you and we rerun it.
- We flag the risk before the run, not after. Heavy solids and coated stock get checked first.
Compare that to the retail counters. Of the nine sellers we priced, five publish no guarantee at all, and the one branded guarantee we found has no terms published anywhere.
Start here — costs you nothing
Get A Free Sample Pack In The Mail
You cannot judge lamination on a screen. Gloss versus matte, 3 mil versus 5 versus 10 — the difference is in your hands, not in a photograph.
Tell us where to send it and we mail you a physical pack: both finishes, four thicknesses, sealed edges and rounded corners you can flex and scratch. Free, no account, and we do not need a credit card to send it.
- Gloss and matte side by side in your hand
- 1.5, 3, 5 and 10 mil so you can feel the difference before you spec
- Our full wholesale price list in the envelope
Tick “send samples” on the form below, or just call (310) 871-4933 and give Ida your address.
Why a printer trusts us with their customer's job
No Testimonials Here Yet. Here Is Hard Proof Instead.
Every laminating site you just looked at has glowing quotes on it. Anyone can type those. Below is what we can actually show you, and a standing offer to prove the rest before you risk a single sheet.
A verifiable address
1889 E. Maule Ave, Unit G
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Look it up. Drive to it. Our machines are on that floor and the work is done in Henderson, Nevada — not brokered out to whoever is cheapest that week.
A person, not a ticket queue
Call (310) 871-4933 and ask for Ida. A human answers, Mon–Fri, Pacific.
Try that with the retail counters. Then try asking one of them what mil your job should be.
Proof you can hold
Free sample pack, mailed to you. Both finishes, four thicknesses, sealed edges you can flex and scratch.
A company that will not put a physical sample in your hand before you order is asking you to take their word for it. We are not.
Before you call
Questions We Get Every Day
Do I have to print with you, or can I send my own sheets?
Either. Most trade customers print their own and ship us flat sheets to laminate, trim and pack. We also do wholesale colour printing, and the combined print-and-laminate rate is cheaper than buying the two separately.
What thickness of lamination do I need?
5 mil is the default and the right answer for most menus. Use 1.5 or 3 mil if the piece needs to stay flexible or fold. Use 7 or 10 mil for placemats, outdoor signage, or anything that must stand up by itself.
Should I choose gloss or matte lamination?
Gloss makes colour pop and gives the deepest blacks, but shows fingerprints and throws glare under hard light. Matte eliminates glare and is right for anything read at an angle, photographed, or used under restaurant downlights.
What is the largest piece you can laminate?
Up to 27 inches wide and any length. Our roll laminators do not care how long the sheet is, which covers tabloid placemats, oversize posters, maps and banners.
Is there a minimum order for wholesale laminating?
Our pricing is built around volume, so the value starts around 100 pieces and improves from there. We will take smaller jobs, but below about 25 pieces a retail counter is genuinely competitive on convenience and we will say so.
Can you ship laminated work directly to my customer?
Yes. We blind ship with your packing slip and your branding, direct to your customer. Your client never learns we exist. Most of our print-trade customers work this way.
How do I send artwork or printed sheets?
For printing, send a press-ready PDF built to finished size with an eighth-inch bleed where artwork runs off the edge. For laminating your own sheets, ship them flat on a skid or in cartons and call first so the run gets scheduled.
Why is your lamination cheaper than Staples or FedEx Office?
Laminating is the only thing we do, and they treat it as a retail counter add-on. Their published walk-in rates are $1.99 to $2.75 per letter sheet with no volume break at any quantity. We are a production laminator, so our cost falls as your run grows. The film is the same film.
What if the lamination fails after I ship it to my customer?
We reprint the job free and pay freight both ways for 90 days after delivery. No tolerance percentage and no returning the boxes first — send a photo. A bad seal shows up weeks later once the piece has been handled, which is why the window is 90 days.
Do you offer round corners, hole punching or slitting?
Yes, all standard finishing, priced in pennies rather than as a surcharge. Round corners for menus and placemats, hole punch for tags and badges, slitting for multi-up cards. Tell us on the quote and it is included.
Three fields is all we need
Tell Us The Job
Name, email, phone — that is genuinely all that is required. Everything below it is optional and only speeds the quote up. A person reads every one of these and comes back the same business day.
- No account, no credit card, no auto-quote robot
- Do not know your spec? Leave it blank — that is what the call is for
- Tick the box and we mail you free samples either way
Ask for Ida · Mon–Fri, Pacific
Email quotes@laminationservices.com
1889 E. Maule Ave, Unit G
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Made in Henderson, Nevada