Basics Folding

Once again I get the question on how do I make this more cost effiecent?

And when I look at the piece it has folds perfs, scores and is twisted in several directions.

Here is some secrets to help save money.

In folding a sheet, we have to look at the thickness of paper as NO one like cracking where the fold goes. Simple rule the thicker the paper the more the crack will be. So we score the sheet, but if you are in a price competive state, than we can run the project and the folds will go with the grain of paper (paper has a grain) and we can run a scoring wheel on the folder. This will not be the best score but with the grain going the correct direction then this will be a OK score, but this will save major dollars.

This is when we can also put a perf in the sheet.

These are little things which saves not only cost, but time and with the combination of the two sometimes it is worth having a few minor flaws compared to perfection which cost way more!

My thoughts

Alan