Digital BW, The Print

Richard:

I recommend a commercial product called "Score it" board. It could be  
made at home though.

It is a foot square board with a ruler on one side. In the middle of  
the board at 90 degrees to the ruler, it has a metal rule embedded in  
the board and about one sixteenth of an inch high above the board. It  
comes with a scoring rule and a stop guide. The rule is a wooden stick  
with a concave end that shapes the score. You position the card so  
that the metal rule is where you want the score, make sure it's  
straight, and run the scoring rule against the card, impressing the  
card into the metal rule. This is identical to the way scores are made  
in print shops ( I know, that's where I work).

Leslie Otterbein

On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Richard 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,
>



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