True micro-perforation on your folding machine

Ragged burst perforation line from a standard folder perf wheel on blue stock — The same stock, perforated twice. Left, the perf wheel your folder came with. Right, the Micro-Perforator.

Fine flat micro-perforation line from the Technifold Micro-Perforator on the same blue stock — The same stock, perforated twice. Left, the perf wheel your folder came with. Right, the Micro-Perforator.

Run a tear-off job through your folder and look along the perf line. If it is a row of ragged bursts, with paper dust on the rollers and sheets that will not lie flat in the stack, that job is fighting the perforating wheel the machine came with.

Standard folder perf wheels crash a coarse steel blade against a steel anvil. The teeth burst the sheet rather than cut it, every pass dulls them further, and a worn blade chips or snaps mid-run and stops the folder dead. So reply cards tear crooked in the customer's hands, the stack bulks up until boxes will not pack, and jobs that should run inline get sent out to be perforated on a cylinder at somebody else's price and pace.

This is what is causing it, and what replaces it:

Coarse rusted steel perforating blade supplied with folding machines, held in hand — Coarse teeth that burst the sheet against a steel anvil, against fine double-bevel blades that cut cleanly into a nylon sleeve and shrug off work that snaps conventional ones.

Technifold micro-perforation blades engraved 52, 25 and 17 TPI, stacked — Coarse teeth that burst the sheet against a steel anvil, against fine double-bevel blades that cut cleanly into a nylon sleeve and shrug off work that snaps conventional ones.

The Micro-Perforator replaces it in minutes, on the slitter shafts your folder already has. The hardened blade cuts against a nylon sleeve instead of steel, so each tooth cuts the sheet cleanly instead of bursting it. The perforation lies completely flat: no bulking in the stack, no paper dust, and the finished sheet runs straight through laser printers. Set it once and it holds for the run, whether that is five hundred reply forms or five hundred thousand.

8 TPI — Every blade we make, coarse to ultra-fine. 3 and 7 TPI tear-off blades complete the range, and every one is engraved with its pitch.

10 TPI — Every blade we make, coarse to ultra-fine. 3 and 7 TPI tear-off blades complete the range, and every one is engraved with its pitch.

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Micro-perforation in action. 4 minutes 33.

Micro-Perforator on the folder shaft with a sheet running through, perforated line trailing behind — On the shaft, sheet running through, the finished line behind it.

“The tool has replaced all such devices that came before, simply because it produces a much better result, the perf lies flat, meaning there is no bulking up of sheets when we stack them. The blades seem to last forever and the nylon anvils are extremely robust. We get through hundreds of thousands of reply forms and the set up is easy.”
Russell Bangs · Haslam Printers Ltd

The facts

Blades: Ten pitches, 3 to 72 TPI, matched to your stock and tear
Cuts: Against a nylon sleeve, never steel on steel
Result: Perf lies flat: no stack bulking, runs through laser printers
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

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True micro-perforation on your folding machine

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