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Guillotine-quality cutting on your folding machine

If booklet edges come off your folder fuzzy and every trim job means a second pass at the guillotine, the problem is the slitters your folder came with. Fit a scissor-action Cutting Tool to the shafts you already have, and those jobs skip the guillotine entirely.

Look at the edge of a booklet stack straight off your folder. If it is fuzzy and whiskered, shedding dust over the rollers and the delivery, those sheets are being crushed apart, not cut.

Standard folder slitters pinch the sheet between two dull collars until it tears through. So the edge looks like felt, the dust builds up, and the honest fix has always been a second pass on the guillotine: more handling, more waiting, another operator tied up, and jobs quoted with that extra pass built into the price.

This is what replaces it, and everything it can do:

One tool. Four cuts. All guillotine quality.

Cutting Tool slitting a sheet cleanly in two through the centre on the folder shafts
Single slit
Cutting Tool making two clean cuts in close proximity with the waste strip shearing away
Double cut
Cutting Tool trimming the sheet edge on the folder shafts, waste stripping away cleanly
Edge trim
Cutting Tool making a kiss cut on a blue sheet on the folder shafts
Kiss cut
The same scissor set-up does all four: a slit through the centre, two cuts with a clean waste strip, an edge trim, or a kiss cut. All inline, at full folder speed.

Jobs that used to queue for the guillotine come off the folder finished. That is the whole point of this tool: the second pass disappears, and with it the handling, the waiting and the operator it tied up.

The Cutting Tool fits in minutes on the slitter shafts your folder already has. The hardened knife runs against a double-sided cutting boss in a genuine scissor action, the same principle as a guillotine blade, so the sheet is sheared cleanly instead of crushed apart. The bosses self-sharpen as they run, the blades last up to five times longer than competing rotary cutters, and spacer rings set two cuts in close proximity when the job needs it. Booklets, business cards, greetings cards and coupons ship straight off the machine.

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The Cutting Tool in action.
Technifold hardened cutting knife, bevelled edge, engraved Tech-ni-Fold
The hardened knife. It shears against a self-sharpening boss and outlasts competing rotary blades up to five times over.

Since fitting our Tech-ni-Fold cutting tool we have been delighted with consistent quality trimming of booklets as they come out of the folding machine. The other great thing is that we don’t need to change the blades very often. In fact this type of job caused us major headaches for a number of years – now that the cutting tool has been fitted the issue of trimming is a non issue.

Samuel Adams · Revival

The facts

Action
True scissor shear against a hardened boss, guillotine-quality edge
Blades
Last up to 5 times longer than competing rotary cutters
Bosses
Double-sided and self-sharpening in production
Does
Single cut, double cut, edge trim, kiss cut, all inline
Fits
Your folder's existing shafts, no modification
Proven
45,000+ tools running in 79 countries, since 1999

Built for the folders you already run

HeidelbergMBOHorizonGUKHerzog & HeymannBaumfolderMB BäuerleShoeiMultigrafUchidaPetrattoMorgana

And every folding machine with standard slitter shafts. If yours is not listed, ask, the answer is usually yes.

Tell us the machine you run and the jobs it struggles with.

We’ll email you exactly what fits and what it costs, specified by the engineers who make the tools, not picked from a catalogue.

No payment details. No commitment. A money-back promise has backed this tooling since 1999.

Not ready to talk? We’ll post you a free sample pack, creased, perforated and cut on our own tooling, so you can see the finish first.

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