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Joanne Gardner tracks down the solutions to your print problems

Q I need to produce a 12pp concertina fold. The largest fold is at 128mm and it folds to the smallest fold at 74mm, printed on 130gsm matt paper stock. Would you know of a print finisher that can handle this product?
David O’Neill
Via email

A I think you’ll find the issue will be the weight of the paper and being able to create an accurate fold, but with the help of my fine friends at Friedheim International, I have a few options for you, one of which is in Dublin (where I see you are based): Compuform (One Piece Mailer) on 00353 1830 9147. Good old Clinical Print Finishers in Leicester should be able to do the job too: 01162 620050. Thank you also to GAE marketing manager Vic Fletcher, who got in touch immediately after “driving home from Drupa”. He reckons you’d need a suction-fed B2 folder with six folding plates (or a combination of two all-buckle machines). These are not scarce and printers/finishers operating automated Horizon systems with this capability include: Woods of Perth (01738 622244), Trafford Press in Doncaster (01302 367509), Sudbury Print (01787 373421), Colophon & Lavengro (020 8902 3232) and Crossprint on the Isle of Wight (01983 524885).

Q We used to use something called a JalemaClip to bundle together and store documents on the factory wall, but it’s broken. It was from Europe somewhere - can I buy one in the UK and if so where?
Mark Spencer
Via email

A Jalema is a Netherlands-based filing systems supplier and it still stocks the JamelaClip (it now has a self-adhesive version as well). Jalema has a UK agent, Joyce & Company, in Cambridgeshire (01480 405290, info@joyce-pm.com, www.joyce-pm.com), but you can also buy via Jamela’s online shop at www.jalema.com.

Trapping FOLLOW-UP
I have received a slap on the old hand (and rightly so) for telling my Slovakian printer friend, who enquired about trapping software for his Harlequin RIP, to go with I-Trap without mentioning that Harlequin itself has an in-RIP trapping solution called TrapPro. You can buy this on Harlequin’s online store at www.harlequin.com, and this was just announced at Drupa. I sheepishly apologise for this oversight.