Greeting card scoring machine?

Discussion in 'Folders' started by Jeff, Dec 20, 2006.

  1. Jeff

    Jeff Senior Member

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    What machines should I look at to allow me to produce "hallmark quality" scored and folded greeting cards in short runs?
     

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  2. SM-Printer

    SM-Printer Member

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    Get a used baum folder with perf/score wheel shaft. One wheel has an indentation and the facing wheel puts the indent in. And they are built like a tank.
     
  3. printfinisher

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    Find your self a Morgana Creaser. They are made in the UK and have lots of sizes from manual to fully automatic air feed. They will produce letterpress quality creasing on your card stock. www.morgana.co.uk is their website, we bought one and traded up for the air model a year later as our volumes grew.
     
  4. garry

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    ive always had a problem scoring over a digital print with cracking, no matter what ive done it cracks, make sure not to score over print. if anyone knows how to cure this it would be invaluble to me, but i think its incurable.
     
  6. Nitronut

    Nitronut New Member

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    i have scored the piece before printing if no print is in the score area
     
  7. mightyandy

    mightyandy Senior Member

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    We do 90% of our creasing on Rollem auto4's both digital print from a xerox machine and lithographic print. Most of the digital print which is creased is printed 300gsm occasionaly we do get cracking but only when artwork is incorrectly layed out on the sheet. Providing we crease in the correct direction depending on the grain of the paper cracking can be avoided. We also occasionally get cracking on lithographic print but again this is down to the direction of the grain.

    For anyone looking for a good numbering / creasing machine I would highly recommend the Rollem Auto4 I've ran graphic whizard models K, K2 and current model GW 6000 and had brief experience with a morgana FSN but prefer the rollems for reliability and excellent build quality, over the past 10 or so years we've had afew graphic whizards which (don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of, they are a very good numbering machine especially for inexperienced users) have all failed. We've had one rollem for 15 years and it was well used when we bought it and apart from replacing the tongue/sleeve and all rubber rings they run like new, we still have the same rollem 15years on and its better than the day we got it. And after our latest graphic whizards mainboard failing we've bought a newer rollem to replace its role (the original rollem doesn't support multi-numbering). They are a very realiable machine perfect for perfing, creasing and numbering (Reiner numbering boxes give an excellent number as they are the same as the graphic whizard)
     

  8. ziggy33

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