An old engraving of a woman a working at a paper folding machine used in the printing industry. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This ‘knife folder’ is a machine would be used for ‘octavo’ work (16 pages from the single sheet printed on both sides). With the paper sheet held in place on the table by two registration pins, the ‘folder’ (the dull blade in front of the operator) pushes down on the paper until it engages with two rollers which create the fold. It is then collected below the machine. Until the mid-1800s, book and newspaper folding was done by hand.
An old engraving of a woman a working at a paper folding machine used in the printing industry. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This ‘knife folder’ is a machine would be used for ‘octavo’ work (16 pages from the single sheet printed on both sides). With the paper sheet held accurately in place on the table by two registration pins, the ‘folder’ (the dull blade in front of the operator) pushes down on the paper until it engages with two rollers which create the fold. It is then collected below the machine. Until the mid-1800s, book and newspaper folding was done by hand.
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