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From: edb@io.UUCP (Ed Blachman x4420)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: desktop folding?
Message-ID: <1370@io.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 23:23:01 GMT
References: <37740@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: The Drood Review Of Mystery
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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