Instant Alerts Get email Alerts on stories that match your interest. To choose a keyword, click here. Choose the right expert at the right price, anytime day or night, at PC World Expert Help . The folding mechanism offers a limited number of fold types, but it is designed for untrained users to operate. Print shops generally consider commercial folding machines to be persnickety and unfriendly to set up and run, so any folder that proves easy to use without special training is quite a breakthrough.
Some forms are opaque and can be used for mailing PINs or other confidential information.
With an optional memory card installed in the printer, users can stop the system after it prints the checks, sign them, and re-insert them for folding and sealing. The system has a few drawbacks. It requires disconnecting the duplexer, if your printer has one, so it can't print on both sides of the page. Also, it can't collate or fold multipart forms.