Printek 850 Series manual Form Layout Considerations

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Tenting is usually caused by glue drying on the perforation after the forms maker puts the forms into the box, or forms which are not glued at all. Forms with solid glue lines, which run vertically down the entire form, are the most susceptible. If you experience such a problem, request “interrupted glue line” forms from your vendor. This method stops the glue approximately three-quarters of the way down the form and then resumes gluing at the top of the next form. The gluing should not begin too far below the top of the form or pages of the form will be able to fan apart and be a potential cause of jamming.

Another area where not all forms are alike is in the quality of carbon paper used, or in the way carbonless inks are applied. If the back copies of your form are too light, request a quick-release carbon or a higher quality carbonless inking method.

Form Layout Considerations

When designing preprinted forms, the most common problem is forms that are designed “too tight”. This means that boxes where data have to be printed are just barely large enough for the data, and that even the slightest misalignment will cause characters to be printed on at least one of the lines that form the box.

While the print alignment can be adjusted on the PrintMaster 850 Series printer to 1/100th of an inch, this is often too much to expect of the forms manufacturer. Where the preprinted information is placed in respect to the tractor holes on the form often varies on every other form in a single box of forms, or from one box of forms to the next.

To help avoid this situation, create larger areas for data by allocating blank lines in the printed data for horizontal lines, and allocating blank columns for vertical lines. If this is not possible due to the amount of data that has to be

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