No it's not laminated it's coated in nano particles with spin coating which sprays small bumps on the paper smaller than the water molecules in a uniform spray so the water molecules don't touch the paper but instead are on top of the coating. You can write on the paper just when u do it will most likely break the coating because u will be crushing the nano scale structures I work with the spin coating at UMass Lowell in a Nanotechnological Class as an undergraduate.