The Sakura Tissue-Tek Film Coverslipper was used extensively in the lab. It operated great, once it was cleaned, and coverslipped all of our slides. This machine is a workhorse and I would highly recommend its use. There is only one drawback to the system, the stickers we used to identify each slide, had a xylene soluble adhesive which would soften and gum up a lot of the moving parts the slide touched in this machine. So once a week, or more often depending on workflow, the machine needed to be thoroughly cleaned. Most people did not know how to do this, so it usually came down to me to make it happen.

Once of the drawbacks of the film vs glass coverslipping is longevity. The film remains clear for only so long, whereas the glass ones are indefinite, or until the adhesive drys out. We rarely needed to use glass coverslips, and only then on broken already stained slides.