Before
AfterRun a solid-coloured cover through your folder and look along the fold. If the coating has split into a ragged white line, that job is fighting the scoring blades the machine came with. Steel scoring crushes the fibres instead of stretching them. On digital prints, UV varnish and laminated stock it gets worse, and the heavier the ink coverage the louder the crack.
So good work gets ruined at the last step. Reprints. Samples bent by hand for the customer. Jobs quoted with a margin for waste, or covers sent out to be letterpress creased at somebody else's price and pace.
This is what is causing it, and what replaces it:
Your folder's steel score
The Tri-CreaserThe Tri-Creaser ends this on the machine you already own. Its colour-coded rubber creasing ribs form the crease without breaking the surface. The crack disappears, at full machine speed, on stock from 85 to 350gsm. It slides onto your folder's shafts with no modification, is fitted in minutes, and each colour setting is matched to a stock weight so operators change jobs without guesswork.
No payment details. No commitment.
“We have a customer that requires virtually perfect non cracking spines on a saddle stitched book, using coated 10 pt cover. Prior to using your scoring device, we were offline scoring on a sheet fed press and still could not achieve perfection. We nearly lost this customer due to this issue. Then we tried your device and it solved the problem immediately. Since the beginning, this device has worked flawlessly, so well that we have purchased additional units in some of our other divisions.”
The facts
- Stocks
- 85 to 350gsm
- Fits
- Your folder's existing shafts, no modification
- Setup
- Fitted in minutes, colour-coded settings per stock
- Handles
- Digital toner, UV varnish, laminates, cross-grain work
- Proven
- 45,000+ tools running in 79 countries, since 1999
Built for the folders you already run
And every folding machine with standard slitter shafts. If yours is not listed, ask, the answer is usually yes.