Identification card printer and laminator

The present invention relates to an apparatus for bonding a heat bondable lamina onto a card that forms a substrate. The lamina is separable into sheets that fit the cards closely. Informational materials can be printed either on the cards or on the lamina. A laminator for laminating sheets of lamina onto substrates such as cards uses a web of lamina material that preferably has a bondable and printable layer on the reverse side and can then be printed with information and laminated onto a blank card. The web also preferably has a series of spaced transverse lines of reduced strength so the web can be separated into individual sheets of lamina by creating a tension in the web across the transverse line of reduced strength.