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How to Design Layouts with Folds - The first thing you have to do when designing a project with folds is deciding where you want it to fold.
Brochure Folding Techniques for Increased Sales - Effective sales brochure design is controlled by how a brochure unfolds! All sales and marketing literature readability, and how strong a message it broadcasts, is affected by how it unfolds in a recipient's hands. The overall cost of creating any brochure is also governed by it's folding patterns.
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Card Designs - Subscribers of the Design Cafe were invited to submit card and folding ideas f... we thought these ideas were notable...
Designing with Paper Folds - "The way you fold the paper is one of those design elements which costs you nothing; if you're going to fold the paper anyway."
Folds Add Focus - When you create a brochure, don't overlook the importance of the fold.
Flyer Printing Tips - Here you can gain knowledge of flyer design tips and on folding
The Form and Function of Folds - Folds are as important to your brochure design as illustrations, typefaces, and color. A smart layout heightens the drama with which your message is revealed to the reader.
Folding and Scoring - Tons of resources on folding and scoring here
Folding Tips and Pointers - Determining the best way to fold a given job may not be at the top of your customer’s priority list, but it is critical to the planning process and can mean the difference between a beautifully finished or a flawed, cracked, shoddy-looking piece.
How Many Different Kinds of Binding Are There? - There's a whole lot of different ways to bind a multi-paged project. Some of these methods can be applied by affordable equipment while other methods are best left to bindery professionals found in a bindery. Here's a bunch of professional and office methods for holding pages together.
How Many Different Kinds of Binding Are There? - There's a whole lot of different ways to bind a multi-paged project. Some of these methods can be applied by affordable equipment while other methods are best left to bindery professionals found in a bindery. Here's a bunch of professional and office methods for holding pages together.
Know the Score - One of the things I like about the finishing business is that there's more to it than meets the eye. Each postpress operation has special guidelines, considerations and limitations. Take an apparently straightforward operation, like folding. Simple, right? Wrong! For folded projects to be successful, you have to know the score.
Learn About Printing - Describes and illustrates several common parallel and right angle folds including accordian z-fold, c-fold, parallel map, 8 page parallel roll, french fold, and 16 page broadside
New life for old brochure layouts - The solution to this is really a simple matter of backing up and taking a different perspective on the whole approach.
Post Prepress - Talks about post prepress scoring, folding, and binding
Printing Glossary - Thematic Glossary of Cutting, Numbering, and Binding
Printing 101 - Among the many topics covered at International Paper are tips on folding and scoring and how different paper characteristics affect how well a paper folds.
The Professional Guide to Folding - The Professional's Guide to Folding will ensure good communication and accurate results from the start of a job to the finish. This is a must-have for print and design professionals."
Scoring - What is a score? A score is simply a crease in a sheet of paper that establishes position for a fold. Scoring is a process that sometimes comes as an after-thought when it should be a fore-thought!
Scoring and Folding - Tips and Techniques for scoring and folding
Smarter folding - Short runs, faster-turnaround demands and a shrinking supply of skilled bindery professionals have focused printers' folder requirements squarely on quick setup, changeover and makeready.
Tips and Tricks - Folding Guide (PDF)- The most commonly used folds are identified below. Certain folds require an allowance for short panels in order to enable folded panels to nest properly....
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