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The Finishing Room

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Finishing and Equipment

The guillotines, folders, stitchers, collators, creasers and rounders that trim, fold and join a printed sheet, and what each machine does to it.

A bindery workbench under a low angled lamp, with a folded 64 page theatre programme open on the saddle of a small stitcher, a spool of 24 gauge wire beside it, and a steel rule laid across the fore edge to show the shingled sections.
Programmes lying on the saddle, the fold over the wire before the clinch. Plate FE-001 · Finishing and Equipment · bound on 20/09/2026 · The plates stand beside the folios they belong to.

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Saddle-Stitched Programmes: Wire, Fold and Creep

Creep on a 64 page saddle-stitched programme, wire gauge and leg length for a heavy cover, and where the fold must land. Measured on a short run.

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