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How to Run 2 or More Scores When You Only Have One Scoring Tool

[fa icon="calendar'] Fri, Feb 22, 2019 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines, Scoring Machines

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It can be a headache, but there are times when it’s necessary to run a scoring or perforating job twice through a piece of bindery equipment. Maybe you have one creasing tool available but this job calls for two or three. Perhaps it’s an equipment scheduling problem and the small folder with one scoring tool is the only one available that day. The headache usually starts with the second pass through the machine, when the operator discovers the entire first pass didn’t register, or is in the wrong position, or is crooked. Worse yet, a customer discovers the problem!

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Cold Weather Tips for the Bindery and Press Room

[fa icon="calendar'] Fri, Feb 01, 2019 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines

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With this extreme cold weather blanketing much of the country we figured it would be a good time to review some of our past articles pertaining to cold weather questions, with static being a perennial favorite topic. Some might be surprised at the impact the cold can have on their bindery operations. Here are links to a few articles (including resources) that could help you in the coming frigid months, especially as temps start to dip. For those of you in Hawaii, the Caribbean and other warm climes, go ahead...be amused!

Static in the Print Shop & Bindery - Is There a Cure?
There may not be any flip-the-switch cure, but there are preventive measures that can keep you from pulling your hair out.

Tip for Beating Static on Your Folding Machine
A few homegrown but effective tips.

Dealing with Dry, Cracked Fingers in the Bindery and Press Room
Tired of having your fingers wrapped in Band Aids from January through April?

Cold Weather Tip for Folding Machines and Technifold Tri-Creasers
Ever leave your folding machine on a Friday in good running order only to find nothing but headaches right after the weekend? If it's really chilly on Monday mornings, or any morning, here's a shortcut that could save you some troubleshooting time on your folding machine.

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Run 2-Up Jobs on Your Folding Machine Without a Split Guide

[fa icon="calendar'] Thu, Jan 17, 2019 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines

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The question of how to run 2-up folding jobs has many answers depending on the size and layout of the piece to be folded. We get occasional questions about this common layout, that of an 11x17” which folds 1x in half to 8.5x11, then again 2x to a #10 or 1x to a 5.5x8.5. The concept we're discussing really applies to any similar size and fold configuration where one piece folds and trims in the parallel section, which then sends two pieces to the right angle for folding

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Micro Perforating for Laser Printers, Copiers and Bindery Equipment

[fa icon="calendar'] Fri, Jan 11, 2019 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines, Printing Business, Scoring Machines

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Chances are good that customer requests have gotten you involved in micro perforating, whether through in-house perf operations or through outsourcing. It’s common today for end users to run pre-perfed, pre-printed forms (supplied by their local printer) through their own laser printers, copiers or digital presses. Invoices and statements are good examples of this.

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Minimize Folding Machine Push-out on 16 Page Signatures

[fa icon="calendar'] Fri, Dec 14, 2018 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines

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In the process of folding paper we encounter ‘pushout’. As one sheet is folded inside another, the inside sheets naturally have a tendency to push out (or creep out) away from the spine by the thickness of the paper for each subsequent fold. Ideally this is all compensated for in the design stage where printed images on the inside pages or panels are shingled further inward toward the spine as they near the center of the stitched book (or folded piece,) and outer pages are moved away towards the face.

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Avoid Folding Problems - Curled Cover Stock and 'Alligator Skin'

[fa icon="calendar'] Fri, Oct 05, 2018 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines

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Despite their versatility in the bindery, folding machines do have limitations. The bigger the diameter of the fold roller, the heavier the sheet that can be run. Grain direction also matters. But before you take the salesman’s head off for suggesting that you score and fold an 18pt cover stock, consider this technique that might help you finish an impossible job.

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Use Your Gatefold Plate to Prevent 3 Common Folding Machine Problems

[fa icon="calendar'] Fri, Sep 21, 2018 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines

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If you happen to have a gate fold attachment for your folding machine and you use it strictly for gate folds, you could be cheating yourself. You may not know this, but it’s entirely possible to use a gatefold plate to reduce, or even eliminate, three issues common to letter folds and other multi-panel folds:

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Four Tips on Getting More from Your Tri-Creaser

[fa icon="calendar'] Thu, Aug 16, 2018 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines

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The blessing and the curse for folding machine and bindery equipment operators is that there is always something new to learn.  It’s great when you learn something new and you can do a job faster or better. But you can’t rest on your laurels because on this new plateau of performance there are even more things to learn, more questions and more is expected of you. There is a Chinese proverb that sums it up: “Learning is like rowing upstream. Not to advance is to drop back.”

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7 Perforating Tips for Folding Machines and Scoring Machines

[fa icon="calendar'] Fri, Aug 03, 2018 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines, Scoring Machines, Micro Perforating, perforating

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A Bindery Success™ subscriber recently emailed to talk about an issue he was having with perforating on their folding machine. As with most post-press problems, the more we dug into it, the more we had to peel back layers. In this case the problem which generated the inquiry is that perforator blades are wearing out too fast for the boss’ liking.

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Micro Perforating Tips for the Folding Machine

[fa icon="calendar'] Fri, Jul 27, 2018 / by Technifold USA posted in Bindery How-To Tips, Folding Machines

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There is no doubt that our Technifold anvil-style perforating systems deliver a cleaner, flatter product than conventional folding machine rotary perforating systems (illustrations, right.)  There is less distortion of the sheet and it’s possible to safely get more teeth per inch (tpi) with the stronger double-bevel perf blade typically used in the anvil method.

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