About this machine

The Stahl KC 78-6-KL is a folding machine — sometimes referred to as a paper folder or buckle folder — used in commercial and industrial print finishing to fold printed sheets into sections, booklet signatures, and multi-page forms. Stahl is a well-established German manufacturer with a long history of producing sheet-fed folding equipment for the printing and bookbinding industries, and their machines are widely used in trade binderies, print shops, and finishing operations worldwide.

This particular machine is a 16-page cross-fold configuration, built in 1992 and carrying serial number 4642/. It handles a maximum working width of 780 mm, making it suitable for large-format sheet work. Feeding is handled by a pallet feeder, which allows continuous loading from a full stack and supports high-volume production runs.

The folding capacity is distributed across two stations. The first folding unit is equipped with six buckle pockets, enabling a range of parallel and combination folds in a single pass. The second folding unit provides two knife folds, adding cross-fold capability that allows the machine to produce the 16-page signatures its configuration is designed for. Front-mounted and rear-mounted slitter shafts are fitted to both the infeed and outfeed sides, allowing the sheet to be slit longitudinally before or after folding as required by the job. Delivery is handled by a Stahl SAK stream delivery unit, which fans out the folded products in an overlapping stream for stable, controllable output.

The machine is described as being in good condition, with soft PU rollers fitted throughout the fold units. A compressor is included with the machine, along with the original manuals. The machine is located in Emskirchen, near Nuremberg, Germany, and is available for immediate inspection and test running on-site.

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