Fellowes Helios 600 Sheets Thermal Binding Machine with Auto Shutoff, Platinum & Graphite

I'm the owner of Renew Color Therapy and i make personalized coloring books. It's a new business and i just bought the Helios 60 thermal binder for producing the books. It is a great product for heating the glue to bind my books. It's easy to operate and finishes off my product perfectly every time! I recommend this product for anyone that uses this particular binding process.

I bought the Helios some months ago. I am using it to bind together old files and documents. It is an extremely easy job to do thanks to the perfect and safe functionality of the machine.

I bought this machine to bind my own Novel I wrote and printed, and have also used it to bind some smaller documents. I have used the pre-made vinyl thermal binders of various thicknesses for documents from 1/16 to 1 inch thicknesses and I am very pleased with the results. My novel is over an inch thick so I have had to make my own binders to hold all those pages. I make a trough of aluminium foil to wrap around the spine and hold the glue strip in place. I usually cannot completely remove the foil, but a strip of wide tape (book binding tape or Duck Tape) hides the foil and protects it. On the thicker documents I have found it advantageous to also sew the binding in addition to the glue... I drill 1/16th-inch diameter holes about every 1/2-inch along the spine 1/8th-inch from the edge and wend linen thread through them. Due to a printing mistake (my fault) I have had occasion to test the bindings to destruction. The sewn spine is near impossible to destroy without a lot of work. Thinner books without the sewing are also a lot of work to destroy. Pages have not fallen out (unlike some commercial paperback books I have had with this sort of binding!). I have had some problem getting the first and/or last couple of pages to seat fully into the vinyl binders if I am near (or beyond) the upper limit of how many pages the binder is designed to handle, but there is a simple trick to overcome that... wrap the pages with a sheet of paper to hold the pages tightly together, slip it into the vinyl binder and then pull the sheet of paper out from the end... works a treat! I am glad I purchased this binding machine... lots easier than trying to clamp the pages together and slop glue on the edge... and I think it makes a better binding!

We own a small real estate company in Park Slope Brooklyn. We purchased the thermal binder because we wanted to be able to create wire free and punch free property pitch books. The binder heats up fast and does a thorough job of adhering the glue to the pages of books. It's quick, easy and very effective.

I work in Training and Education at a great company. We just received our Helios Thermal Binding Machine and we LOVE it! It completely changes the look of our manuals. It's easy to use and it's fun!

The product is made for speedy binding, and works perfectly the first time, every time. The system is easy to use, and is made to make life easier. It even has a cooling tray, to allow the bindings to cool appropriately on the spine, to ensure the glue binds appropriately. I've tested out the strength of the bound pages, and the pages aren't going anywhere. I love it!

We have a lot of documents that we used to pay someone else to bind for us. This is a HUGE money saver for our office. The fact that it is easy to use is definitely a plus.

This item is self-explanatory and easy to use, but feels overpriced for what it does. The actual covers to use with it, for thicker booklets, seem very expensive. I also think it would be helpful if some of the covers were included as a "tester" with the product. Overall, it seems to do the job it's designed to do, but with the cheaper options available, I'm sure I could have opted for one that costs way less.

First time used, the instructions with the machine are very sketchy, and on-line no better. No mechanism for holding pages together and ensuring they are all in contact with the binding adhesive. Result is a document that spills pages when you open it to read it. and while i am at it the systel for logging reviews is not very user friendly

I've only used this product infrequently. When it worked it worked good. But it just stopped working. It's a piece of junk and I am really angry about it. If I'd put my money in the trash it would have been a better investment.