This works well, runs somewhat quickly, doesn't have any exposed heating elements and does a great job helping to preserve my child's projects. Its fairly small which makes storage pretty easy. It is also light weight making it pretty portable. We do a lot of art parties for our little ones and its nice to have this option to save their work.  The kids were so impressed with the process and enjoyed being able to feed their work through the machine. We didn't have any issues using it for a party where each of the kids got to pick one piece of their artwork to laminate. We had zero issues in the functionality. My husband did comment that it smelled "hot" upon opening the package which I didn't notice at all. I did receive this as part of a Chat Pack through Chatterbox and was able to donate a laminator to our  Parent Play Date Group locally.