Pure chance led me to your website, so I thought I might ask a question to which I never found an answer in 20-plus years as a fan maker. Is there a machine available that will produce a fan-fold, sometimes called a ‘sunray' fold? I'm looking for solutions to fully mechanise my own production. I have a Victorian patent drawing of a folding machine that I could copy, but I am interested in what your readers might come up with. Many thanks for any information you are able to offer.
John Brooker, www.fanmaker.co.uk

Funnily enough, I never go anywhere without a fan. One of life's essentials - especially when travelling on the Tube at this time of year. However, while we have a lot of fan-folded paper in this industry, it's not the requisite type of fan-fold. I became briefly excited upon finding a supplier of finishing equipment that's actually named Sunray, but it turns out they don't make folders, only guillotines (www.sunray-cutter.com). I can't find any evidence of the machine you desire, but will gladly share your query with the PrintWeek readers as there may be someone out there who knows differently, or perhaps with the necessary engineering ingenuity to make or adapt something. As an aside, I wonder if all those millions of fans made in China are hand folded?

I am looking to print around 100 orders of service for my upcoming wedding. They will run to 12pp and should be of a high quality. However, I am unsure about what paper to use or who would be the best printer for the job. We are on a bit of a shoestring but are prepared to pay a little extra for quality printing.
Name and address supplied

Should you happen to find yourself with some additional budget, please have a look at the wondrous wares available through members of the BPIF's Engraved Stationery Asso-ciation (www.engravedstationery.org). Otherwise your local high-street print outfit should be more than capable of giving you some advice and will be able to produce some perfectly nice, if perhaps not luxe, products. You can get free templates online, for example at www.office.microsoft.com, but be sure to ask your chosen print supplier about acceptable file formats if you choose to do the page layout yourself. The chatroom at specialist mag You & Your Wedding (www.youandyourwedding.co.uk) has some tips on jazzing things up with simple touches like using plaited ribbons in a colour scheme that matches the wedding to bind the pages.