Johnson says one of the jobs that has become much easier to produce on the new folder is a fitness schedule that the hospital's fitness center mails out. The schedule contains multiple folds, similar to a map fold, only smaller. Once the schedule is unfolded, it becomes the size of a poster.
"Our design department has started designing more stuff like this that can be opened up into a full poster, but yet be mailed at lower cost," Johnson says. "These folds are coming out of this new machine in half the time, and the setup's already there. We are not fighting the more difficult folds now. They have been simplified and we're probably running some of those difficult folds now at twice the speed."
Cory Francer is an analyst at NAPCO Research. He formerly served as editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions.