CreaseStream uses cutting, creasing and micro-perforating technology from sister company Tech-ni-Fold in standalone production machines to finish digital printing jobs.

The CreaseStream Card Creaser deploys the patented rubber rotary creasing system which managing director Graham Harris claims is up to six times faster than any conventional flatbed creaser.  Although a prototype was taken to Drupa, PWL! will be its UK launchpad. Aimed at copyshops and small digital printers who want a manual entry-level creaser, it will be reduced from £1,197 to £997 for the show.

The company will also use PWL! to exhibit its CreaseStream Mini range, which for the first time incorporates the Tri-Creaser Advance technology. 

The CreaseStream Mini Quick-feed is a semi-automatic, hand-driven machine with rotary creasing and perforation functionality, while the CreaseStream Auto-feed is a fully automatic version that handles 4,500sph.

As its name suggests, Tri-Creaser Advance products can deliver three creases in one pass, and according to Harris either reduces or eliminates the cracking problem that can occur on lower-grade offset and digital stocks.

Harris said he decided to take a stand at PWL! because he liked the layout and setup of the show, but also because he has a warm connection with PrintWeek that stretches back nearly 20 years.

Harris explained that when he was a “struggling inventor” trying to get his “strange-looking creasing device” into the market, PrintWeek covered the story about Polestar buying his first two devices when no other title was interested. That story led to 130 phone calls and 60 more Tri-Creasers being sold, and gave him the confidence and cash to give up his day job and negotiate a supplier’s contract with Heidelberg, which started in 2000 and is still going strong today.

“So I wanted to back PrintWeek the way they backed me all those years ago,” he said.