The Score...on Folding a Scored Paper

In earlier articles in our newsletters, Grain direction...the long and short of it , Scoring 101 we covered important topics related to folding paper but frankly we never got down to the brass tacks of the acutual folding action and how to do it.


The above image shows how you always fold away from the score channel. The score hinge created during the act of scoring works in the opposite direction that most folks intuitively think of when looking at a flat scored paper.

Early on in my paper career during a call to a Midwest printer I learned this important lesson from an old curmudgeon of a printer who enjoyed seeing me fold the paper in the incorrect direction. A little embarrassing but a good lesson about folding scored paper. This is nothing earth shaking but proper folding direction is extremely important.