Digital Finishing
The Rotary FlexFold
Your inkjet prints faster than your bindery folds. The FlexFold closes the gap — 1.28 million pages an hour.
+450 installations worldwide
Why the FlexFold
Why choose the Rotary FlexFold?
1,000 feet per minute, web-fed
Folding and signature gluing at full web speed. The folder stops being the bottleneck.
20″–60″ width capacity
18–90 lb paper range: Bible-weight thin stock to heavy coated.
Tool-free automatic changeovers
Format, waste, and splice handled automatically — the line keeps running and nobody reaches for a tool.
8 / 16 / 32 / 64pp signatures
Minimum blank pages at every count, including 64pp Collect-8. Short-run books stop paying for filler.
Twin Star collator
Stream aligner and automatic waste diversion keep book blocks moving — untouched by hand.
Head and tail gluing
Spot gluing matched automatically to each new section.
Down the line
Every stage automated. Every touch removed.
How one line keeps pace with a digital press running flat out.
01The rotary fold
Twin drums fold at speeds a knife folder can't touch — 1,000 ft/min, continuously.
02Automatic web slitting
Reconfigures to the next format from the job command alone. No tools, no stop.
03Zero-touch divert
Transition material routed out automatically — only sellable product moves on.
04In-line pre-folder
The web conditioned and aligned before the first fold, at full press speed.
05Collate and stack
Stream aligner and automatic waste diversion, fully enclosed and unattended.
06One continuous line
Press to bindery-ready book block with nobody in between — and no blank-page filler.
Product tour
See the Rotary FlexFold on a production floor.
Three minutes of the line running — folding, collating, and delivering book blocks at full speed.
Training & Support
We don't leave after commissioning.
A Timson press is a decades-long relationship. Installation, training, remote diagnostics, and lifetime parts all come from the works that built your machine — not a third party.
Installation & commissioning
Print-tested in Kettering, then commissioned to the same standard on your floor by our own technicians.
Operator training
Your crews trained on your press, by the people who built it — until they're running at full speed.
Remote diagnostics
Kettering and North America dial straight into the press for fault diagnosis and control updates.
Parts for life
Dedicated spares stock shipped ground, overnight, or same-day — even for presses built 40 years ago.
The numbers
The folder stops being the bottleneck.
1.28M
pages folded per hour
1,000ft/min
web-fed folding speed
0
touches per format changeover
The range
Purpose-built for books, end to end.
The T48A
Three-minute make-readies. Profitable from 1,000 copies.
- Plates changed in under 3 minutes
- 28–120gsm — Bible stock to bulked trade
- Upgradeable in place to full ZMR
The T48A ZMR
Change plates at full speed. Never stop printing.
- Plate changes at full speed
- 550 m/min (1,800 fpm)
- Under 30 copies waste per change
Timsons
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