Folding & Creasing

There are so many different ways your print can be folded. 
The most common folds are shown below. 


Paper of around 170gsm and above should be creased before it's folded, this is to prevent it from 'cracking' down the fold. This involves scoring the paper before it is folded. Creasing can be done in a few ways - the most common is on a folding machine that creases just prior to folding this allows for a faster turnaround as it's reducing the amount of offline processes. The alternate way is to run it on a separate machine that presses the same score line into the paper.


Cracking occurs when coated paper is folded - it can sometimes purely be aesthetic but at the same time can also lead to a total failure along the fold. Cracking is made worse by heavy coverage of ink across the fold.

Most Common Folds