Published SPEED equipment for pharmaceutical leaflets, commercial print and packaging. Compare the available specifications and discuss the configuration required for your work.
A buckle folder forms a fold by pushing the sheet against an adjustable stop plate until it bows and is gripped by the folding rollers. Because each plate is an independent stop, one buckle …
4 models → pharmaceutical folding machinePharmaceutical folding is a miniature-format, high-accuracy discipline: a patient information leaflet is folded to a finished panel small enough for a carton, at a fold accuracy measured in …
4 models →A buckle folder forms a fold by pushing the sheet against an adjustable stop plate until it bows and is gripped by the folding rollers. Because each plate is an independent stop, one buckle folder produces parallel, cros…
T490 A high-precision entry-level buckle folder for miniature printed sheets, with quick changeover for small-batch production. The most compact machine in the SPEED range and the usual choice for pharmaceutical inserts and instruction leaflets.
T520 A flexible medium-small folder purpose-built for pharmaceutical leaflets and mixed print production. Fully inline compatible with a flattening press, parallel cutter, labelling machine, hot-melt gluing machine and vertical stacker.
T600 A high-output commercial folder for medium to large printing facilities, engineered for uninterrupted bulk production with stable quality over extended runs. The usual choice for mass-produced brochures, catalogues and pharmaceutical inserts.
T780 The flagship heavy-duty industrial model for oversized sheets and high-volume lines, equipped with a vacuum feeding system, double-sheet detection, servo drive and PLC touch-screen control. Built for large brochures, maps and packaging work.
Pharmaceutical folding is a miniature-format, high-accuracy discipline: a patient information leaflet is folded to a finished panel small enough for a carton, at a fold accuracy measured in fractions of a millimetre, wit…
T490 A high-precision entry-level buckle folder for miniature printed sheets, with quick changeover for small-batch production. The most compact machine in the SPEED range and the usual choice for pharmaceutical inserts and instruction leaflets.
T520 A flexible medium-small folder purpose-built for pharmaceutical leaflets and mixed print production. Fully inline compatible with a flattening press, parallel cutter, labelling machine, hot-melt gluing machine and vertical stacker.
SD-X250 An inline parallel knife unit that trims and slits folded leaflets in the same pass as folding. Runs as a module in a folding line or as a stand-alone unit, with 30–90 m/min throughput and a 15 mm maximum finished thickness.
SD-XP300 A dedicated flattening press for post-folding and post-stitching processing of leaflets, inserts, booklets and brochures. Removes fold bulge so finished stacks pack and feed cleanly on downstream equipment.
Feeding equipment determines how consistently sheets reach the folder and how often a run stops for reloading. The SPEED round-pile recirculating feeder is specified with the host folding machine rather than as a standal…
The SD-X250 and SD-XP300 serve different finishing steps after folding. The SD-X250 parallel knife unit trims or slits folded work when a square cut edge is required. It can run in a folding line or as a standalone unit.…
SD-X250 An inline parallel knife unit that trims and slits folded leaflets in the same pass as folding. Runs as a module in a folding line or as a stand-alone unit, with 30–90 m/min throughput and a 15 mm maximum finished thickness.
SD-XP300 A dedicated flattening press for post-folding and post-stitching processing of leaflets, inserts, booklets and brochures. Removes fold bulge so finished stacks pack and feed cleanly on downstream equipment.
A preview of the fold reference library. Exact machine compatibility depends on the ordered plate arrangement, stock and a fold test.
Half fold 
Letter fold 
Double parallel fold 
Parallel fold 
Gate fold 
Roll fold 
Accordion fold 
Cross fold 
Map fold 
Z fold Filmed on customer floors and in the SPEED fold-test room. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Booklet & brochure buckle folder in production
A T600-class buckle folder running multi-panel booklet and brochure folds — plate changeover, roller grip and stacker delivery shown end to end.
Watch on YouTube →Instruction-manual folding with a vertical stacker
Miniature instruction-manual folding with the vertical stacker module — the configuration pharmaceutical printers use to keep small panels aligned at the delivery.
Watch on YouTube →Pharmaceutical leaflet and insert folding line
The pharmaceutical folding line as a system: miniature buckle folding, parallel knife trimming and press flattening working as one process.
Watch on YouTube →An automatic paper folding machine does three things a hand-fed folder cannot: it separates one sheet at a time from a full pile, it holds that sheet in register through every fold, and it delivers a counted, squared stack at the end. Everything that decides your unit cost — how many operators you n
Solution · High-speed foldingSpeed on a folding machine is not a single number. A folder only holds its rated 180 or 210 m/min if the feeder keeps up, the rollers do not slip, and the delivery does not force a stop every few thousand sheets. High-speed folding is therefore a system question: feeder continuity, transmission type
Solution · Pharmaceutical leafletsA patient information leaflet is the hardest folding job in print. The sheet is small — often 60 × 100 mm unfolded in the miniature end of the range — the paper is thin, the fold has to be square enough to feed a cartoning line, and the fold line must not crack the ink or the fibre. Get any of those
Solution · Outsert systemsAn outsert is a leaflet folded deep enough — typically eight, twelve or sixteen panels — that it becomes a small booklet in its own right, usually wrapped around or packed with the primary container. The engineering problem is that every additional panel multiplies the error of the panels before it,
Solution · Large formatLarge format folding is a different machine class, not a bigger version of a small one. Once sheets pass roughly A2, the paper behaves like a stiff plate: it needs a wider and gentler feed, larger roller diameters to avoid marking, and enough structural rigidity that the frame does not flex under a
Solution · Commercial printA commercial print finisher is judged on the number of different jobs that can leave the floor in a day. That makes changeover time, fold-pattern range and the ability to switch paper stock between jobs more important than a headline speed figure nobody runs all week.
A definition, the three machine types, and how to tell which one your work needs.
From pile to squared stack — the feeding, folding and delivery stages, and what each one costs you when it is set wrong.
Seven decisions, in the order that eliminates machines fastest — with the numbers to bring to a supplier.
What actually drives the price, which options earn their cost, and how to plan installation and acceptance.
Two mechanisms, two sets of strengths — and the cases where the answer is a machine that does both.
Send your sheet size, finished size, paper weight and fold pattern. We will recommend the platform and configuration, then fold a sample on your own stock and return it with measurements.
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