Digital BW, The Print

When AAubreyBodine.com started selling note cards, I made a "folding machine" that Jennifer called "the clapper".  I took two clip boards.  I cut the clip off one of the boards and then hinged the bottoms of the boards together.  

For folding a card, I would fold over the ends of the card to met, tuck them under the remaining clip, and whack the hinged part over onto the card to flatten the fold, all at once.  Then I used a "Martha Stuart" bone to tighten the fold.

After doing that 22,000 times, we got a Martin-Yale 929 folding machine.  (Which I still use for scoring.)

I had the paper stock precut to 10"x7" (grain short) to feed into my fleet of four CIS-equipped Epson 890s.  Two and a half minutes to print a card - 2 dozen per hour, times 4 for about 100 cards per hour production rate. Ink cost per card of about a half of a cent.

I do it all differently now - Xerox Laser print engine, electric paper cutter, Morgana folding machine - to produce 1200 to 2000 cards per month.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been folding my greeting cards by squashing them down with a ruler. This was ok until I changed papers recently; I am sure that there is a better - a quicker and cleaner way - to fold them.
> 
> I found this page on scoring the cards: http://www.theartfulcrafter.com/greeting-card.html - but if you are making a lot, it will be too time-consuming - so I wondered if anyone had improvised a device to speed up the process and make a clean, professional-looking fold. I'm thinking about what sort of design would work and be feasible to make at home.
> 
> thanks,
> Richard
> 
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