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Tenting is usually caused by glue drying on the perforation after the forms
maker puts the forms into the box, or forms which are not glued at all.
Forms with solid glue lines, which run vertically down the entire form, are
the most susceptible. If you experience such a problem, request
“interrupted glue line” forms from your vendor. This method stops the glue
approximately three-quarters of the way down the form and then resumes
gluing at the top of the next form. The gluing should not begin too far below
the top of the form or pages of the form will be able to fan apart and be a
potential cause of jamming.
Another area where not all forms are alike is in the quality of carbon paper
used, or in the way carbonless inks are applied. If the back copies of your
form are too light, request a quick-release carbon or a higher quality
carbonless inking method.
Form Layout Considerations
When designing preprinted forms, the most common problem is forms that
are designed “too tight”. This means that boxes where data have to be
printed are just barely large enough for the data, and that even the slightest
misalignment will cause characters to be printed on at least one of the lines
that form the box.
While the print alignment can be adjusted on the PrintMaster 850 Series
printer to 1/100
th
of an inch, this is often too much to expect of the forms
manufacturer. Where the preprinted information is placed in respect to the
tractor holes on the form often varies on every other form in a single box of
forms, or from one box of forms to the next.
To help avoid this situation, create larger areas for data by allocating blank
lines in the printed data for horizontal lines, and allocating blank columns for
vertical lines. If this is not possible due to the amount of data that has to be