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This is a demo and review of the Tamerica Eco-49, a 4:1 coil binding machine

The Eco-49 is 13 pounds of heavy duty all metal construction. It punches papers for binding with coil spines.

Out of the box assembly is just one handle on the right side and you’re set to go

Among its new features is the side margin adjustment knob. This assures accuracy and consistency

in all your punching.

Convenient in the chip tray are to ways of measuring your project. One helps you determine the thickness

of your finished document

and the other helps you determine what size spiral you’ll need. With your materials all set,

let’s watch the Eco-49 in action.

You adjust your side margins and you pull the lever.

Holes that are punched are compatible up to two inches.

The Eco-49 claims that you can punch up to 12 sheets of 20lb paper per lift. However, in our test run we

found this to be really difficult.

We made it, but it was a strain. So we lowered our expectation as well as our amount of paper down to

8 sheets and that seemed to work out just fine.

Keeping this in mind, large documents could be quite tedious. Also, the Eco-49 is only a puncher; you’ll have

to coil by hand or use a second machine such as Tamerica’s DuraCoil or Akiles’ Roll-@-Coil line.

And clean up is a snap with a front loading chip tray.

And that’s it. That’s the Tamerica Eco-49 coil punch machine.

Form more demonstrations and reviews of this product and many more, check out MyBinding.com.