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Horizon SB-17
Each job you run comes with its own specific problems, and more often than not the culprit is found on the tooling shafts. The standard finishing tools supplied with your machine aren’t accurate, versatile or delicate enough for the results you — and your customers — expect. At Technifold we design and build bespoke, retro-fit premium finishing tools to solve both common and complex finishing problems.
Your SB-17, finished properly.
The steel scoring discs on your SB-17 cover feeder crack coated and digital covers
Perfect-bound covers pick up all four of their creases — two spine, two hinge — on your SB-17's cover feeder, from steel scoring discs that crush the fibres instead of stretching them. On coated, laminated, recycled and digitally-printed cover stock, that shows up as cracking along the spine and hinges: on the one surface of the whole book your customer actually handles.
- All-steel scoring discs — they crush and split cover fibres instead of stretching them
- Cracking concentrates exactly where the eye lands: the spine and the hinge line
- Worst on the stocks modern cover work actually uses — coated, laminated and digitally-printed board
The Technifold Quad-Creaser replaces the steel scoring discs on your SB-17's cover feeder with the same patented rubber-creasing principle that ended fibre-cracking on folding machines. All four cover creases — both spine creases and both hinges — are formed in one pass, with the fibres stretched gently into shape instead of crushed.
- Patented rubber creasing ribs — spine and hinge creases without cracking, on coated, laminated and digital cover stock
- All four creases in one pass through the cover feeder, positioned to your cover layout
- Interchangeable colour-coded ribs match the crease to the cover stock on the pallet
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A cover that opens flat is built at the hinge — your SB-17's scoring can't guarantee it
The hinge crease decides how the finished book opens and how the cover sits against the first page. A weak or uneven steel score leaves a hinge that fights the reader, gaps at the spine, or a crease line that fractures the first time the cover is opened fully.
- Score depth set by feel — hinge quality drifts from make-ready to make-ready
- A shallow hinge stresses the glue line every time the book is opened
- Deep-set steel scores fracture the cover coating along the hinge
With the Quad-Creaser the hinge is a formed crease, not a scored line: deep, even and repeatable on every cover, set once for the job and identical from the first cover to the last. Books open flat, covers sit tight to the spine, and the crease line stays clean through repeated opening.
- A deep, even hinge crease — set once, repeatable for the whole run
- Covers hinge cleanly instead of levering against the glue line
- The same device covers your spine and hinge positions — one make-ready, four creases
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What owners say
“We have now used our Tech-ni-Fold Spine Creaser for a Horizon 5500 for a couple of months with great success. We really improved our quality and optimised our production, saving a lot of time. Therefore I can highly recommend this product.”
“We had to score thicker covers offline, and now we can do it inline. It has increased productivity, but it is more about the quality of the finished product. I would definitely put your product forward to other print houses.”
“Well, what can I say about the Quadcreaser? It does exactly what it says on the box, with no fuss or mess. It’s quick, it’s user-friendly, it’s reassurance – exactly what we and our customers require. Pleasure to do business with you again.”
The next step
See what fits your Horizon SB-17 — and what it costs.
Every system on this page is matched to your exact machine — and they work alone or in combination, whatever mix of jobs you run.
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The systems that serve machines like the Horizon SB-17
These are the Technifold families this type of machine typically runs. The exact build for your SB-17 — tools, positions and settings — is confirmed as part of your configuration.