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Folding Guidelines

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Folding Guidelines

Good guideline for designer.

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FOLDING GUIDELINES

Designing your printed piece to work with the folding that you have chosen is very important.
The folding default is head out/head up (the top or right side of the first page will be the visible panel once folded).

Our state-of-the-art computerized folder is capable of folding sheets of paper up to 20” x 28” and folding down
to a finished size of 3”. We also have with the ability to do an open or closed gate-fold.

Letter-fold / Tri-fold - paper is folded in thirds, with Z-fold - paper is folded in thirds, accordion style
one flap covering the other (ex. 8.5” x 11” folds to (ex. 8.5” x 11” folds to 3.667” x 8.5”, and fits into a
3.6875” x 8.5”, and fits into a standard #10 envelope). standard #10 envelope).
Letter fold uses slightly different sized panels to Outside Inside
ensure that the panel that folds in fits nicely and

Brochure
2-Sided
doesn’t hit the fold of the other panels.
5 6 1 2 3 4

Z Fold
Outside Inside
Brochure
2-Sided

Tri-F
1 4

2-Sided

Front
Flyer

Back
ol
Lett d
6 3
3
5 6 1 2 3 4
5 2

e
Foldr
1
1 2
2-Sided

Front
Flyer

Back

5
6 3
Accordion fold - similar to a Z-fold, paper is folded
1 5 4 in fourths/fifths..., accordion style. Each panel is the
same size.
Letter / Tri-fold - Outside panels are slightly larger
Paper Size Panels 5/4 Panels 6/3 Panels 1/2
Outside
8.5” x 11” 3.625” 3.6875” 3.6875”
8.5” x 14” 4.625” 4.6875” 4.6875”
Accordion

11” x 17” 5.625” 5.6875” 5.6875” 7 8 9 10 1


Fold

11” x 25.5” 8.375” 8.5625” 8.5625”


5
Inside

1
2 3 4 5 6

Outside Z / Accordion fold - All panels are the same size


Paper Size (3) Panels (4) Panels (5) Panels
Doub
le 8.5” x 11” 3.667” 2.75” —
Para 6 7 8 1
8.5” x 14” 4.667” 3.5” —
llel Inside 11” x 17” 5.667” 4.25” 3.4”
Fold 7 11” x 25.5” 8.5” 6.375” 5.1”
1 5 2 3 4 5

Double Parallel fold - paper is folded in half and Outside


then half again. The inside pages are slightly smaller
than the outside pages.
Half 4 1

Double Parallel fold - Panel 6/5 are slightly smaller


Fold Inside
Paper Size Panels 6/5 Panels 7/4 Panels 8/3 Panels 1/2 3
8.5” x 11” 2.69” 2.77” 2.77” 2.77”
1
2 3
8.5” x 14” 3.437” 3.521” 3.521” 3.521”
11” x 17” 4.205” 4.265” 4.265” 4.265” Half-fold / Bi-fold - paper is folded in half (ex. 11” x
11” x 25.5” 6.312” 6.396” 6.396” 6.396” 17” folds to 8.5” x 11”, 8.5” x 11” folds to 5.5” x 8.5”....).

All measurements are in inches. continued next page


All panel measurements are width of that panel.
Gate-fold - paper is folded with the two outside Roll fold - paper is folded in four0ths/fifths..., rolling
panels each folding towards the middle. The two in on each other (like a spiral). The panels each get
panels that fold in are slightly smaller than half of a little smaller so that they can fit inside each other.
the sheet.
Outside
Outside

Roll Fold
7 8 9 10 1
Gate Fold

5 6 1

9 Inside
Inside

5
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4

Roll fold (5 Panels) - each panel is incrementally smaller


Gate fold - folding panels are slightly smaller than half
Paper Size Panels 7/6 Panels 8/5 Panels 9/4 Panels 10/3 Panels 1/2
Paper Size Panels 5/4 Panels 6/3 Panels 1/2
9” x 16” 3.0751” 3.1375” 3.2” 3.2937” 3.2937”
8.5” x 14” 3.46875” 7.0625” 3.46875”
11” x 17” 3.2751” 3.3375” 3.4” 3.4937” 3.4937”
9” x 12” 2.96875” 6.0625” 2.96875”
11” x 24” 4.6751” 4.7375” 4.8” 4.8937” 3.8937”
11” x 17” 4.21875” 8.5625” 4.21875”
11” x 25.5” 4.9751” 5.0375” 5.1” 5.1937” 5.1937”
11” x 25.5” 6.34375” 12.78125” 6.34375”

Outside

Roll Fold
Closed Gate / Double Gate fold - a gate fold that 6 7 8 1

is folded in half.
7 Inside
Outside

1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 1
Gate Fold
Closed

Roll fold (4 Panels) - each panel is incrementally smaller


Inside
Paper Size Panels 6/5 Panels 7/4 Panels 8/3 Panels 1/2
1
8.5” x 14” 3.4063” 3.4687” 3.5625” 3.5625”
6 2 3 4 5 11” x 17” 4.1563” 4.2187” 4.3125” 4.1325”
11” x 24” 5.9063” 5.9687” 6.0625” 6.0625”
11” x 25.5” 6.2817” 6.3125” 6.4529” 6.4529”
Closed Gate fold - outside panels are slightly smaller than quarter
Paper Size Panels 6/5 Panels 7/4 Panels 8/3 Panels 1/2
8.5” x 14” 3.4375” 3.5625” 3.5625” 3.4375”
9” x 12” 2.9375” 3.0625” 3.0625” 2.9375”
11” x 17” 4.21875” 4.28125” 4.28125” 4.21875”
11” x 25.5” 6.3125” 6.4375” 6.4375” 6.3125”

All measurements are in inches. © 2018 TechnaPrint, Inc.


All panel measurements are width of that panel.

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