chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (01/11/90)
Here's a strange question, but I'm not entirely sure where to look for an answer. I'm looking for a desktop folding machine -- something that can take small stacks of paper (up to at least 10 pages, preferably about 15) and fold them in halves or thirds. Folding them by hand doesn't sound bad until you realize you're folding 800 sets six times a year. Now, I know they're available in the 'big, massive' size for printers, but is there a reasonably priced system available for us home-based desktop publisher? Who would sell this kind of stuff? -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking] The Answer? That would be telling, Number Six.
jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) (01/12/90)
> Chuq Von Rospach writes: > ... I'm looking for a desktop folding machine -- something that can take > small stacks of paper (up to at least 10 pages, preferably about 15) and > fold them in halves or thirds. Folding them by hand doesn't sound bad until > you realize you're folding 800 sets six times a year. > > Now, I know they're available in the 'big, massive' size for printers, but > is there a reasonably priced system available for us home-based desktop > publisher? Who would sell this kind of stuff? Contact: The Printer's Shopper P.O. Box 1056 Chula Vista, CA 92012 for a free catalog. They have two devices which might interest you: 1. Electric device looks like a toaster and electrically folds documents into thirds. I don't know if it will take multiple sheets, or is limited to one sheet. About $150.00 2. A mechanical device that is like a book. You put a pile of paper into it and fold it over and it folds the paper with it. Much easier than hand folding. Aboaut $30.00 Happy Folding Jim Winer -- Post, don't email, I usually can't reply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- opinions not necessarily | "Why on earth would we want a human intelligence and do not represent | living in circuitry? any other sane person | We can already mass produce human intelligence especially not employer. | with unskilled labor | almost anyplace fairly cheaper." -- Jim Meritt
edb@io.UUCP (Ed Blachman x4420) (01/12/90)
In article <37740@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >[...] I'm looking for a desktop folding machine -- something that can take >small stacks of paper (up to at least 10 pages, preferably about 15) and >fold them in halves or thirds. [...] > >Now, I know they're available in the 'big, massive' size for printers, but >is there a reasonably priced system available for us home-based desktop >publisher? Who would sell this kind of stuff? I and a bunch of my friends put out The Drood Review, a small-but-growing mystery review monthly, and we had this very problem in re some mass mail- ings we were trying to do. As you note, folding gets old very quickly, especially when you're dealing with thousands of pieces. Mass mailings are hard enough on volunteer goodwill as it is. We wound up buying a Martin-Yale CV7 Auto-folder, which meets our needs and sounds like it'd meet yours. We paid $739 for it, from a "printing equipment, sales and service" company. Once we got the hang of using it, it has worked very well for us. It's definitely Martin-Yale's bottom-of-the-line offering -- they make more expensive machines, with more features, and better suited to *really large* mailings. But, as I say, this model is plenty for us (our largest mailings have involved folding on the order of 10K 8.5 by 11 pages into thirds). I guess I should make explicit the fact that I have no connection with Martin-Yale other than as a satisfied customer. >Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking] Ed Blachman edb@ileaf.com (or) ...!uunet!leafusa!edb