Book folding

In the 1880s and 1890s, book folding machines by Brown and Dexter came onto the market, and by the 1910s hand-folding was rare, with one publisher declaring them to be "practically obsolete" in 1914.

[1] The folding process is also necessary to produce print products other than books—for instance mailings, magazines, leaflets etc.

Adjusting the paper stop in a buckle folder determines where the fold will be placed.

[2] Although buckle folders are fast, simple, efficient, and have small folding tolerances, they are not suitable for substrate of very low (<40g/m2) or very heavy paper grammage (>120g/m2).

[citation needed] It also has small folding tolerances, but is a more complex machine.

  1. Letter Fold / C-Fold / Tri-Fold
  2. Tri-Fold / Gate Fold
  3. Double Gate Fold / Roll Fold
  4. Z-Fold / Accordion (6-page)
  5. Double Fold / Double Parallel Fold
  6. French Fold / Double Right-Angle Fold
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