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100 Horizon machines mapped · 20 problems we solve on them

Our tooling retro-fits to the shafts your Horizon machines already have, so they crease, perforate and cut to a standard the original tooling was never built for. Find your model below, or tell us what you run and we’ll email you exactly what fits.

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Horizon perfect binders

16 models
Eliminate fibre crackingWhite cracked spines and hinges on solid colour and digital covers. The steel scoring collars that cause it, and the pressed creases that replace them.Eliminate laminate liftingFilm that silvers and peels along the spine and hinges of laminated covers. The steel scores that break the bond, and the pressed creases that keep it.The right crease, every jobOne machined steel profile for every job, forever. Or spine, hinges, depth and firmness as settings, changed in seconds per job.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

16 models

BQ Perfect Binders

CABS Lines

CABS System Binders

Other models

Horizon combination folders

13 models
Eliminate fibre crackingCracked colour on the fold, on digital, coated or cross-grain stock. The steel score that causes it, and what replaces it in minutes.True micro-perforationRagged bursts, paper dust, stacks that will not lie flat. The coarse perf wheel that causes it, and the blade that replaces it in minutes.Guillotine-quality cuttingFuzzy, dusty edges and a second pass at the guillotine. The crush-cut slitters that cause it, and the scissor-action tool that replaces them in minutes.Section scores that holdSections that spring open, gusset at the head and fight the stitcher. The barely-there steel score that causes it, and the deep, defined score that replaces it.Pharma leaflet scoringTorn scores and wrinkled folds on thin, highly-folded leaflet work. The abrasive steel score that causes it, and the six-setting pharma score that replaces it.Book cover creasingSpine and hinge creases in one pass, in register, without cracking. The cover work you send out, done on the folder you already run.Close-proximity finishingCrease beside cut, crease beside perf, cut beside perf, or doubles of any of them. One housing, six set-ups, no letterpress bill.Crease with perfs both sidesThe perf-crease-perf pattern for stubs and tear-offs, packed into millimetres, in one pass. The specialist tool for work that otherwise goes to letterpress.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

AFC-74 Cross Folders

Other models

Horizon bookletmakers

8 models
Eliminate fibre crackingWhite cracked spines on stitched work, straight through the colour. The single metal score that causes it, and the pressed crease that takes its place.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

SPF Bookletmakers

Horizon knife folders

7 models
Eliminate fibre crackingCracked colour on the fold, on digital, coated or cross-grain stock. The steel score that causes it, and what replaces it in minutes.True micro-perforationRagged bursts, paper dust, stacks that will not lie flat. The coarse perf wheel that causes it, and the blade that replaces it in minutes.Guillotine-quality cuttingFuzzy, dusty edges and a second pass at the guillotine. The crush-cut slitters that cause it, and the scissor-action tool that replaces them in minutes.Section scores that holdSections that spring open, gusset at the head and fight the stitcher. The barely-there steel score that causes it, and the deep, defined score that replaces it.Pharma leaflet scoringTorn scores and wrinkled folds on thin, highly-folded leaflet work. The abrasive steel score that causes it, and the six-setting pharma score that replaces it.Book cover creasingSpine and hinge creases in one pass, in register, without cracking. The cover work you send out, done on the folder you already run.Close-proximity finishingCrease beside cut, crease beside perf, cut beside perf, or doubles of any of them. One housing, six set-ups, no letterpress bill.Crease with perfs both sidesThe perf-crease-perf pattern for stubs and tear-offs, packed into millimetres, in one pass. The specialist tool for work that otherwise goes to letterpress.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

AFC-56 Cross Folders

Horizon creasing machines

7 models
Add folding to this machinePerfect creases, flat sheets, hand-folding after. The Card Folder couples behind your creaser and folds on the crease, up to 350gsm, five fold types.Rotary creasing on your shaftsIf your machine has tooling shafts, we can put proper creasing on them: crack-free, colour-coded profiles, chosen per job, at full running speed.Rotary micro-perf on your shaftsTear-offs, coupons and reply forms, perforated inline. Ten blade pitches from coarse tear to a line that looks printed, on the shafts you already have.Rotary cutting on your shaftsSlits, edge trims, cut-outs and kiss cuts, inline. A true scissor shear against a hardened boss, on the shafts you already have.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

Impact Creasing

Other models

Horizon buckle folders

6 models
Eliminate fibre crackingCracked colour on the fold, on digital, coated or cross-grain stock. The steel score that causes it, and what replaces it in minutes.True micro-perforationRagged bursts, paper dust, stacks that will not lie flat. The coarse perf wheel that causes it, and the blade that replaces it in minutes.Guillotine-quality cuttingFuzzy, dusty edges and a second pass at the guillotine. The crush-cut slitters that cause it, and the scissor-action tool that replaces them in minutes.Section scores that holdSections that spring open, gusset at the head and fight the stitcher. The barely-there steel score that causes it, and the deep, defined score that replaces it.Pharma leaflet scoringTorn scores and wrinkled folds on thin, highly-folded leaflet work. The abrasive steel score that causes it, and the six-setting pharma score that replaces it.Book cover creasingSpine and hinge creases in one pass, in register, without cracking. The cover work you send out, done on the folder you already run.Close-proximity finishingCrease beside cut, crease beside perf, cut beside perf, or doubles of any of them. One housing, six set-ups, no letterpress bill.Crease with perfs both sidesThe perf-crease-perf pattern for stubs and tear-offs, packed into millimetres, in one pass. The specialist tool for work that otherwise goes to letterpress.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

AF-40 Small Format Folders

Horizon saddle stitchers

5 models
Eliminate fibre crackingWhite cracked spines on stitched work, straight through the colour. The single metal score that causes it, and the pressed crease that takes its place.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

StitchLiner

Horizon tabletop friction folders

4 models
Eliminate fibre crackingCracked colour on the fold, on digital, coated or cross-grain stock. The steel score that causes it, and what replaces it in minutes.True micro-perforationRagged bursts, paper dust, stacks that will not lie flat. The coarse perf wheel that causes it, and the blade that replaces it in minutes.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

Tabletop Folders

Horizon station modules

3 models
Machine-direction creasingCrease down the web at full press speed. No offline pass, no rotary die registration risk, no slowing the line for finishing.Micro-perforation on the webTear-off work perforated down the web, flat enough to keep processing and clean enough to tear by hand. Ten pitches, inline, no speed loss.Every finish, one cassetteCrease, score, perforate, cut and kiss-cut in any combination across the web. One retro-fitted cassette, reconfigured per job.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

Buckle Units

Horizon continuous web finishing lines

1 model
Machine-direction creasingCrease down the web at full press speed. No offline pass, no rotary die registration risk, no slowing the line for finishing.Micro-perforation on the webTear-off work perforated down the web, flat enough to keep processing and clean enough to tear by hand. Ten pitches, inline, no speed loss.Every finish, one cassetteCrease, score, perforate, cut and kiss-cut in any combination across the web. One retro-fitted cassette, reconfigured per job.Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.

Digital Finishing

Other Horizon machines we hold

We haven’t written up a specific problem for these yet. That doesn’t mean we can’t help: if a machine has rotary shafts of any description, our tooling can replace what’s on them — see rotary creasing, micro-perforation and cutting. We engineer everything ourselves, so tell us what you run and we’ll work it out.

gatherers and collators

delivery and stacking units

three-knife trimmers

guillotines

other machines

multi-finishers

sheet-fed rotary die cutters

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