Impulse Sealers for Shipping & Storing
- Efficient Sealing Solution – Delivers strong, airtight seals for a wide range of plastic and poly materials.
- Compact and Portable Design – Ideal for tabletop use in small workspaces, packaging stations, or retail counters.
- Simply place bag between seal bars, press down and release!
- Adjustable timer for varying bag thicknesses
- Efficient Sealing Solution – Delivers strong, airtight seals for a wide range of plastic and poly materials.
- Compact and Portable Design – Ideal for tabletop use in small workspaces, packaging stations, or retail counters.
- Essential Maintenance Kit – Contains key replacement components to keep your tabletop impulse sealer functioning efficiently.
- Reduces Downtime – Helps prevent interruptions in sealing operations by ensuring quick access to necessary parts.
- Essential Maintenance Kit – Contains key replacement components to keep your tabletop impulse sealer functioning efficiently.
- Reduces Downtime – Helps prevent interruptions in sealing operations by ensuring quick access to necessary parts.
- Efficient Sealing Performance – Delivers strong, airtight seals for a wide range of plastic and poly materials, ideal for packaging and shipping needs.
- User-Friendly Operation – Simple manual control makes it easy to use, even for first-time operators.
- Essential Maintenance Kit – Contains key replacement components to keep your tabletop impulse sealer functioning efficiently.
- Reduces Downtime – Helps prevent interruptions in sealing operations by ensuring quick access to necessary parts.
- Essential Maintenance Kit – Contains key replacement components to keep your tabletop impulse sealer functioning efficiently.
- Reduces Downtime – Helps prevent interruptions in sealing operations by ensuring quick access to necessary parts.
- Comprehensive Repair Kit – Includes essential replacement parts to maintain the performance of your 24" foot-operated impulse sealer.
- Minimizes Downtime – Keeps your sealing operations running smoothly by enabling quick and efficient maintenance.
- Essential Maintenance Kit – Contains key replacement components to keep your tabletop impulse sealer functioning efficiently.
- Reduces Downtime – Helps prevent interruptions in sealing operations by ensuring quick access to necessary parts.
- Essential Maintenance Kit – Contains key replacement components to keep your tabletop impulse sealer functioning efficiently.
- Reduces Downtime – Helps prevent interruptions in sealing operations by ensuring quick access to necessary parts.
- Essential Maintenance Kit – Contains key replacement components to keep your tabletop impulse sealer functioning efficiently.
- Reduces Downtime – Helps prevent interruptions in sealing operations by ensuring quick access to necessary parts.
- Complete Maintenance Solution – Includes essential replacement parts to keep your 16" tabletop impulse sealer operating at peak performance.
- Extends Equipment Lifespan – Helps prevent downtime and costly repairs by ensuring your sealer stays in optimal working condition.
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Whether you’re upgrading the look and feel of your product packaging or have other reasons for professionally sealing polyethylene bags, an impulse sealer is an essential piece of packing and shipping supplies. Keep reading to learn more.
What Is an Impulse Sealer?
An impulse sealer is a power tool created to seal and package different kinds of polyethylene bags and similar items. Whether you’re just sealing a bag for tools or moving from house to house, this product is a must have on all packaging endeavors. Staples’ impulse bag sealers range from 8 to 20 inches and feature an adjustable timer for a perfect sealing experience.
How Do Impulse Bag Sealers Work?
Impulse sealers at Staples use a short impulse of electricity to melt one layer of plastic onto another layer. This creates a tightly sealed package ready for travel that can only be reopened by ripping or cutting the plastic open with non-stick scissors. Some models even feature a cutter that can cleanly cut poly tubing with one simple process.
Staples offers hand impulse sealers and foot operated impulse sealers — with the main difference being the length, voltage and portability of each item. Foot-operated bag sealers use a standard 110 volt power supply.
What’s the Difference Between Impulse Sealers and Constant Heat Sealers?
The difference between impulse sealers and impulse heat sealers is the way that heat is applied to the plastic.
- Impulse sealers use a short impulse to create a burst of heat that quickly seals bags. They’re used for polyethylene bags.
- Constant heat sealers use consistent heat that reaches higher temperatures and takes more time to seal bags, but is capable of sealing heavier products. They’re intended for cellophane bags.
Both products come in different lengths and widths as well as the option for manual or automatic use.
How Long Does an Impulse Sealer Last?
Impulse bag sealers can seal around 1,000 to 5,000 bags before the heating wire sustains damage or breaks. Regular maintenance and replacement of the heating components will help to increase the lifespan of your impulse sealer.
Specifically, you’ll have to replace the PTFE adhesive cover with the heating wire before it burns completely through. The PTFE adhesive should be replaced once its discoloration becomes noticeable and it begins to stick with the item you are sealing.
Replacing these parts can be a tricky process, so make sure you have the right tools and directions before proceeding.