Jielisi 12 Inch Paper Cutter, A4 Paper Trimmer with Automatic Security Safeguard Guillotine for Coupon, Craft Paper, Label and Photo, Black

This cutter looks nice, feels sturdy and the blade is sharp. I was able to cut through 8 layers of (thin) notebook paper; it struggled beyond that.This cutter is almost entirely in metric. The grid is centimeter squares, the ruler is centimeters on both sides. (Which you can't tell from the pictures or the description.) The only inches are going down perpendicular to the ruler / blade - you cannot measure inches anywhere else. If you want to lop of the entire side / top of a page, this will work just fine. If you want imperial measurements along the direction of the cut for, say, a partial cut of a certain length into the page, this isn't the ideal cutter for you.Accuracy is slightly off. I checked the grid against two separate transparent rulers, if I line up at the top, they get progressively off-center going down, so the lines on this do "drift" slightly from accurate, but I'd guesstimate it at <1%, so probably good enough for many uses in the size range this cutter is capable of. Because you don't have a perfectly flat surface (part of the ruler is lower than the rest since it has to tuck under the base) measuring past 4 inches is tricky. It appears to be most accurate with the page following the curve of the base down to the lower portion rather than pulled taught - so you will need to be careful in the tradeoff between accuracy and bending the page.The angles are even less accurate, but they are almost worthless anyway.. If you try to make an angled cut, the paper gets in the way of closing the ruler, so you either have to squish and wrinkle the paper or make a smaller section. If you want to cut a 45 degree isosceles triangle, the largest you can make has ~2 inch sides before your run into the ruler. (If you want to avoid the ridge that is there to help with paper alignment... you can't.) You wouldn't, say, be able to cut a 5" origami square in half with this - at least not using the angle lines.On the lack of a cutting guide. Another reviewer complains there is no guide where the blade is. It is still possible to line this up. The ruler does not block your ability to see the groove for the blade, if you line paper at each end of this, then you can position the paper exactly where you want it. Alternatively, you can measure up from the bottom of the page using the ruler (including the pull out part, see above.)I do like they include a spare blade on this. I would recommend removing the second blade to give yourself more room and to see better for alignment. I was unable to fully cut a page while using the ridge guides along the same side as the second blade. because the second blade was just close enough that you couldn't quite get that last bit of the page. Instructions on how to remove it are on the packaging, but you basically put the blade in the middle, flex the ruler out, and slide the blade out through the stretched-out middle of the transparent ruler. Then you have to figure out where to put it so the blade doesn't get damaged and doesn't damage anything else...I also like that you have to push down on the blade to engage it, otherwise the blade does not protrude outside its plastic housing. This means that if even you run your finger along the bottom of the blade assembly, you are unlikely to cut yourself (unless, of course, you are really trying to be a dunce.)I did plan to store this upright on a shelf, however the blade/guide tends to fall open when I set it on the flat edge, so it takes up more space than I had hoped.The paucity of imperial units isn't ideal; this is a U.S. customer base. Part of me wants to send this back because the description did not make it clear and there will be times I'd want the imperial along the direction of the cut or for my grid. The mathematical precise part of me dislikes the unit drift. The other part of me thinks it is probably "good enough" for many uses and there are workarounds for the lack of imperial units. I'm debating sending it back.

For the price, it's pretty impressive. Although it is made of polystyrene, it seems well-engineered and well-made. Joints are tight. Lines are straight. Angles and measurements seem accurate. You can't drop bricks on it or throw it at annoying people, but it should hold up to a lot of reasonably careful use.The "instructions" are a joke--literally. They were clearly translated into English, but by whom, from what language, or why are a complete mystery. (Rather than tell-tale mistranslations, they are full of odd misspellings and typos.) But there isn't much to figure out, so chuckle and move on.The two blades are a mystery. Since they are identical, one must just be a spare. The blades are replaceable, supposedly, but there's no clue where to buy more. (Fiskars sells similar-looking blades for a similar-looking cutter. Maybe they fit.) Maybe if you do enough cutting to eventually wear the blades out, you should be buying a sturdier unit anyway. The blades are not "rotary" despite Amazon's classification--just pointy metal blades. The blades so have two cutting edges, so you and cut in both directions.It won't cut more than a few sheets at a time, and probably will not last anyone's lifetime, but so far I like it.

I didn't read some of the reviews on this paper cutter before I bought it, I might have purchased something else. I too am very disappointed that the only inch measurements are along the top. I need inch measurements on the clear holder where the blade is. All the little squares are centimeters. It is a solid cutter though, should hold up better than my old one which was not cutting straight anymore. Easy to change the blades, just slightly spread the clear sections apart, gently, and the blade pops in and out. So, I am going to have to figure out how to mark inches on the clear section. I haven't tried the diagonals yet, if they are true markings, it should be really great.

This is a useful and fun product. Very light weight. I keep it at my desk and useit more than I expected. Also, the price is right. I wish I had oneof these sooner. I use it to cut construction paper to mount and frame myAdult Coloring Pictures for gifts. The reason I did not give it a five star is because itrequires a slight adjustment when using the pull out ruler. It seems to skewthe paper slightly which will throw off the measurement slightly. However,the cutter is so quick, I am willing to learn to watch for the alignmentwhen cutting the paper.

We needed a simple paper cutter for our product labels and it does the job. There are 2 blades on it that slide back and forth. I was not sure if I needed to use 1 or both blades but just using the one works great. I was able to cut through 9 sheets of sticker paper and no problems. It is very light weight but sturdy at the same time. The product packaging was not sealed all the way but it was the very hard clear plastic that you have to cut with really hard scissors in order to get the item out so I have to say thanks for not putting me through that lol. Anyway this I must say is not a high end paper cutter so don't expect perfection. This will do for now.

This paper trimmer leaves much to be desired. It works well as long as you don't need precision in terms of measurements. Unfortunately, the grid is based on the centimeter rather than on the inch, which makes it difficult to ascertain the correct marking from one end to the other end of the 12 inch paper. Also the blades overcrowd each other, so that you have to use both blades to cut the entire length of a 12" sheet of paper, one going up and the other going down. I really tried to like this product sufficiently to keep it, but I ended up returning it because of the issue with the grid not aligned to the inches.

For the price,it it does what I need it to. I've been using it to cut watercolor paper with a thickness similar to cardstock. I don't think that it would work as well for cutting multiple sheets. I have to go over the line twice to ensure a clean cut and the guidline bar seems flimsy. It cuts pretty straight but you must be very careful not to slide anything while cutting. When you line up a side you've cut and the precut side of the paper they don't quite match up but it's no noticeable enough on its own. I have tried cutting a diagonal and that seems to work well. Again make sure not to move anything though. I was disappointed that it doesn't seem to come with a scoring blade...only two regular blades.

(C.E.O./Sci: female gender male/SS)...This thing more sturdy than expected for da price - made out of some magical plastic or something - it do bend around if you put some force to it...They surprise you - pay for something that included - panda'd...Unfortunately - I purchase for cutting vac bags/foil primary use - am unable to use da magnetic tape I got for da fridge - underside molded with empty spaces...There are 2 (0.5-inch x 2-inch) area on each end however - gonna try me industrial magnetic tape there (not industrial strength specifically)...Wonder if I will be panda'd here...

It meets my needs for a fair price. I wanted a simple cutter for clipping printable coupons and similar small projects. The package says it has a cutting capacity of 12 sheets, I didn't cut more than 3 sheets of computer paper at one time because I don't want to beat up the blade too bad. It does come with 2 blades though, which is nice.

This is a god but not pricey paper cutter with one draw back. When it's time to change the blade you are supposed to position it near the center of the guide then gently separate the two bars and remove the cutter body. Since the guide is flexible enough to allow the two halves to be spread apart care must be taken when cutting because the guide will flex if you don't pull the cutter in a straight line .

I think this was a used item. The packaging was a little damaged, and it had both blades in the track. One of the blades had a plastic leg broken on it. It took awhile to remove, but once I did the cutter worked perfectly! 4 stars only because of the package and defective second blade. Everything else works perfectly now.

I bought it a while ago as a way to prepare for a big craft project for a kindergarten class. I did not unpack it until yesterday and when I did, I realized that the blade part was missing. So today was the day of the project and I had to hand cut all the materials for a class of 18 kids. It did help me with marking and leveling but the missing part really threw my timeline off for a few hours.

So far it does a really nice job cutting one piece of paper at the time. The ruler helps and also the paper holder keeps the document in place to get one fine cut. For the price I paid for this one model I feel it is worth it.

The perfect lightweight portable cutter! I use this all the time. The guide is straight. The blades are sharp and cut through my label paper flawlessly. I've done up to about 3 sheets at a time. And one sheet is thicker than regular copy paper. So i'm pleased. I'd purchase again! But there should be no need... I did purchase extra blades for if/when they get dull.

I was amazed that the lines on this cutter do NOT go all the way across the board. There are no lines under the plastic guide, I attached a photo so you could see, as it's hard to notice that huge omission in the product pictures with the plastic guide down. I needed 1/2" and 3/4" cut guide lines, but they aren't there. Wow. This makes it useless. I returned it.FYI - there are two cutting blades so you need to make sure you use the correct blade. There are no instructions with the product, so... one blade is for thicker card stock (I cut 100lb, only 1 sheet at a time, it worked great). I then cut regular paper using the same blade because I didn't know they were different. That gave a rough cut, like you folded then tore the page. I recut the paper with the other blade and found that it was a finer blade that did a smooth cut for paper. So, test out the blades on scrap material first to figure out which blade is which.Hope this helps!~CynthiaHandmade In Conifer Jewelry & Accessories