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Buyer's Guide: Scorers and Perforators

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Scorers are equipment that put a  permanent  crease in items such as cards, menus, , brochures.
The score is made along the line  at which paper thing is to be folded or turned. blind impression is achieved by compressing & stretching  the  fibers in  material: allows items to stand  straight up or to be easily folded: business appliance that score perforate  (punch  round  or slotted  holes  in) items  such as tickets, business  forms, , carbonless stocks. Perforations  allow portions of paper  to be easily detached that are from one another (e.g. ticket stubs). 

What is the difference between electric  and manual machine?

Electric machinary  would score and perforate at a faster pace than manual machines: Furthermore, electric  machines  have 2 scoring wheels allowing items  such as  menus to be easily folded into thirds. Scoring  ,  perforating business appliance could  handle paper stocks  up  to  110 lb: bond.
Another crucial consideration is  range  of  paper diameter of width that the machine could handle. If  you need to score or perforate extra wide  or  extra narrow documents, you could want to look dedicated to a equipment that accommodates your needs.

You can expect  to spend approximately $500 to $600  on scoring & perforating machine.


Security perforators use plated dies to punch dotted words, abbreviations, and/or quantity into documents: Commonly used only for accounting  ,  record  keeping purposes, plates such  as "PAID", "VOID", and "CNCLD" could be ordered: Plates are generally  custom ordered dedicated to specifically applications. Security perforators perforate date only for further validation.

sample security perforation


One crucial consideration when purchasing security perforator  is  quantity of characters that  the plate  head could handle. maximum amount of characters ranges that are from 6  to 10, although can  vary slightly depending on  character  width.  Another critical  consideration is the amount of sheets that could  be imprinted at one time. Higher-end models  could  handle up to 25 sheets  at a  time, while  less  expensive business appliance can only handle 12 sheets at a  time.

You can expect to spend anywhere  between $500 &  $3,200 on security perforator,  although most business appliance are priced in  $2,000 - $2,500 range:


  • How many  sets need to be produced per hour?

    The amount of sets per hour varies that are from  equipment to machine.  Higher-end in-line  models  could collate up to 3,900  booklets  per hour,  while less expensive in-line equipment  usually produce up to  1,500 booklets per  hour.  Desktop  machines handle much less paper,  where production will depend on the operator.

  • What capacity (bin size) is most  suitable?

    Friction collators tend to fit somewhere about 200 sheets per bin, while suction collators  fit close to 450  sheets per bin: Desktop machinary fit  between 100  & 175 sheets per bin. Bin capacity  should be consideration, especially for larger volume jobs.  Collators only with larger bin capacities  produce  more sets per hour.

  • Can the business appliance be  expanded  by adding  other bins to it?

    Some collators are  expandable in that they can  attach usually 8, 10, or 16 additional bins.  This could double or triple output  , is significant  factor in deciding what  collator is best  only for  you.

  • How compatible is  collator just with other finishing  machines?

    Very often collators are combined to work "on-line/in-line" just with stackers, bookletmakers, , trimmers  so that jobs can be completed from beginning  to end by simply connecting few equipment , pressing few programmable buttons.  Higher-end equipment  are compatible with high greatness  finishing equipment  that can handle a wide variety of paper types, sheets sizes,  &  weights. Compatibility only with some other finishing  business appliance makes only for incredible efficienvy, as well as high output levels.

  • What types of paper stocks are going to  be used?

    The kind of paper stock that  is  used will make difference when  it comes duration to  decide what collator is best.  Suction feed collators are  better at handling  difficult paper stocks such as coated & textured paper. in case standard-weight  8.5" x 11" paper is going to  be predominantly used, then paper stock is secondary consideration.


  • Bookletmaker: assembles individual sheets into tiny document sets  by stapling and/or folding them together
  • Collator: machine just with trays that  stack, store, and transport  documents sets
  • Feed-wheel pressure: the rate at which friction feed system operates; directly related to  speed
  • Friction feed: rotating friction wheel feeds  individual  sheets into  the equipment where the sheets are then separated  only from the remainder of  the  pile
  • In-line/On-line: production is under automatic control of machine, where collator  is connected to stackers,  bookletmakers, and  trimmers, working "in-line" only with  them
  • Offset stacking: document  sets  are stacked in an alternating  style so that every some other stack sticks out making  it easy to differentiate  between sets
  • Overlap Detection: system recognizes when two sheets that have been fed into same set should  have been fed  into  different  sets, &  notifies the user
  • Receiving trays: trays on the end of machinary where  collated documents rest long after  they_ve  been  processed
  • Paper stock: physical properties of paper  (material, texture, color, etc.) that may determine certain handling needs
  • Straight stacking: document sets are stacked on top of  one another
  • Suction (air) feed: air blasts are  used to feed & separate individual sheets of paper
  • Trimmer: a business appliance that  could cut or  trim any undesired margins only from document