Technical Details Related to Form Printing.

This article describes equipment for producing printed business papers. Since business papers can range from plain listing papers to high-quality advertising prints, the quality standards for continuous forms vary considerably. The more exacting quality standards are discussed, as are the special features of unwind and printing units, problems of size variation of business papers, and press design differences between the printing processes. File-hole punching, marginal sprocket-hole punching, and cross and length perforation are described, Other topics include delivery on the forms press, the peculiarities of multi-web operations, and gluing and attaching.