Ron Bergman
Dataproducts Corp.
2.1 General Terminology
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2.2 Process Specific Terminology
FOLDING:
Z Fold: A fold in which two folds are placed in the sheet in opposite
directions. The first fold is located at 25% of the sheet length,
and the second is located at 50% of the sheet length (i.e., the
center of the sheet). Z Folding is often used on 11x17 inch or A3
size sheets, when they are included in sets containing 8.5x11 inch
or A4 size sheets.
Half Fold: To fold a sheet in half so that one of the resulting
dimensions are exactly half the original sheet. Often used for
signatures or booklets.
Letter Fold: Folding a sheet roughly in thirds. Usually performed on
8.5x11 inch or A4 size sheets for insertion into an envelope.
Nesting: The process of inserting sheets into other sheets that are
being folded. For example, nesting a brochure inside a letter in
preparation for mailing.
**** ISSUE: Is this definition applicable?
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Signature: The process by which images are placed on a large sheet of
paper in correct panel areas and in the proper orientation such that
when the sheet is folded it will produce a booklet with each page in
the proper order and orientation.
**** ISSUE: Used in other definitions. Keep?
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BINDING:
Adhesive Binding: A method of attaching sheets together to form a
book or booklet using glue or adhesive. Some adhesive binding
methods apply the glue to sheets individually, before merging them
together for form a book, but most methods involve the application
of adhesive to an entire book of sheets.
Comb Binding: A method of binding in which a series of small
rectangular holes is placed along the bind edge the sheets. The
sheets are then held together using a tube shaped plastic binding
strip with comb like fingers that fit through the holes in the
sheets.
Spiral Binding: Sometimes referred to as wire binding, this binding
method is a mechanical bind in which the individual leaves are held
together by a wire or plastic spiral that is fed through small holes
in the paper binding edge.
Padding: Applying a non-penetrating adhesive to the edge of a stack
of sheets such that the sheets can be easily peeled off one at a
time. Frequently used for forms.
Velo Binding: A bind formed by punching holes into the edge of the
sheets, placing a two piece plastic strip (one side formed with
plastic pins that pass through the holes) along the edge and then
staking the two pieces together.
Perfect Binding: A method of binding in which all pages are cut and
roughed up at the back or binding edge and held together by an
adhesive.
Tape Binding: The act of placing tape over the bind edge of a set.
Sometimes contains adhesive to provide a functional bind to the set,
and sometimes done for decorative purposes on a set that has been
edge stapled.
**** New enums:
adhesive(9)
comb(10)
padding(11)
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**** ISSUE: There is no definition for plastic(5).
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SLITTING/CUTTING/TRIMMING:
**** ISSUE: Present labels only refer to Slitting. Should they be
changed to SlittingCutting or SlittingCuttingTrimming?
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Trim: To cut the edges of a sheet or set of sheets. Often performed
on a booklet of sheets that have been folded to eliminate the
"creep" or edge shingling that results from the folding
process.
Tab Cutting: The act of cutting the edge of a sheet to form an index
tab, thereby allowing quick identification and access. The external
tabs are sequentially placed along the book edge for visibility and
ease of grasping.
Perforating: The act of cutting a series of very small, closely
spaced holes or slots into a sheet to allow for ease of separation
of a portion of the sheet. Sometimes also used to ease
bending/hinging of heavy weight papers.
Scoring: A means of applying small linear grooves or impressions
along a sheet to allow easy folding. Often used on heavy weight
sheets and book covers.
Slitting: The action of cutting apart a large sheet to form smaller
sheets. Usually done using a sharp circular roll system.
**** New enums:
trim(6)
tabCut(7)
perforate(8)
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**** No definitions for slitAndSeparate(4) and slitAndMerge(5)
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**** Is a generic slit(3) and cut(9) required?
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STITCHING/STAPLING:
Staple: The process of binding a set of sheets together using a 'U'
shaped piece of metal wire that is punched through the set. The ends
of the metal staple are then bent over, or 'clinched' to hold the
staple in place. Technically the term 'stapler' refers to devices
that use pre-cut metal staples, but the term is also commonly used
to refer to devices that use wire spools and then cut/form the
staple. (see the definition of Stitch)
Stitch: The process of binding a set of sheets together using a 'U'
shaped piece of metal wire that is punched through the set. The
wire used to form the staple is cut and formed into a 'U' shape in
the stitcher head, and the staple 'leg' length is often varied
depending on the number of sheets to be bound together. The ends of
the metal staple are bent over, or 'clinched' to hold the staple in
place.
Stitching can also refer to the process of sewing the edges of the
signatures of a book together.
Active Clinch: A method of folding over the legs of a staple using a
moving clinch mechanism. Active clinching results in a flat clinch.
Passive Clinch: Sometimes called an anvil clinch, a method of folding
over the legs of a staple using a curved shaped forming plate.
Passive clinching results in a curved shaped staple leg that does
not lay flat to the set.
Bypass Clinch: A type of clinch in which the legs of the staple are
bent over with a slight offset relative to one another. The method
allows long staples to be used on small sets without staple leg
interference after clinching.
Saddle Stitch: The process of stapling a set along its center line as
part of a booklet making process. Usually 2 or 3 staples are used.
Landscape Single Stapling: The process of placing a single staple in
the upper left hand corner of a set that has an image orientation
such that the sheets are viewed in Landscape position.
**** ISSUE: This definition does not fit with our current enums. Is
this definition required?
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Portrait Single Stapling: The process of placing a single staple in
the upper left hand corner of a set that has an image orientation
such that the sheets are viewed in Portrait position.
**** ISSUE: This definition does not fit with our current enums. Is
this definition required?
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Dual Stapling: The process of placing 2 staples along the bind edge
of a set. The staples are typically located at 25% and 75% of the
length of the bind edge. Although dual stapling is often performed
on the long edge of a set, legal documents are frequently dual
stapled along the top, or short edge of the set.
Triple Stapling: Same as above, but using 3 staples along the bind
edge, and usually applies to the long edge only.
**** New enums: dualStaple(11) and tripleStaple(12)
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**** ISSUE: The placement for these staple operations can be top,
bottom, left or right. 8 enums could be added to define all
combinations, which seems rather awkward, or use the finAxisOrientation
and finAxisOffset attributes to provide this position information.
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WRAPPING:
Shrink Wrap: A wrap of thin plastic which when heated will shrink and
wrap tightly around the stack thus preparing it for shipment.
Band Wrap: Bundling a finished stack to prepare for shipment. Also
known as Strap Wrap.
**** New enum: bandWrap(6)
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**** ISSUE: There is no definition of paperWrap(5)
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****
Punching definitions were really the punch hole pattern and hole size
parameters. These were added in the 02 draft.
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Stack definitions are not applicable. These functions are already in
the Printer MIB and are not a part of the Finisher MIB.
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