Half Fold: The half fold is commonly used for brochures and greeting cards.
Tri-Fold: This common fold, used for mailings and brochures, is much like a letter folded by hand for inserting in an envelope. The Tri-fold produces a self-contained unit, easily handled by automated envelope inserters.
Z-Fold: The “Z” style offers an advantage for multi-page letters to be collated and hand inserted for mailing. Because the pages nest together, the letter is opened with the pages in sequence, however it tends to spring open and should be avoided when automated envelope inserting is used.
Double Parallel Fold: An excellent fold for legal sizes or larger. An 8.5” x 14” folds to 3.5” x 8.5”.
Gate Fold: The gate fold is often used for menus and brochures. The succession of message presentation is more dramatic than with the Two Parallel Fold.
Half then Tri-Fold: This fold is perfect for newsletters. An 11” x 17” sheet folded this way has only one open side and &Mac222;ts into a #10 envelope. The newsletter looks good and is easy to handle.
Half then Z-Fold: When used for a newsletter has the advantage of positioning the masthead on top of the front and the mailing panel right side up on the back.
Half then Half: This is a typical fold for booklet binding, pages are printed, folded and collated for saddle stitching. Fold can also be used for newsletters.