fanfold
- noun
- Archaic
:
papel plegado en acordeón
- He carefully tore the fanfold sheets apart along the perforations after printing.
Examples
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The printer uses fanfold paper for large print jobs.
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Old computer reports were often printed on fanfold with perforated edges for easy separation.
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The accountant loaded a stack of fanfold paper into the dot matrix printer.
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I bought some fanfold sheets for my typewriter.
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The printer ran out of ink, so I had to replace the fanfold paper to continue printing the forms.
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After preparing the documents, she handed him a fanfold of registration papers for the conference.
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They kept the receipts neatly organized in a fanfold format to make them easier to file.
Synonyms
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2.3
Long paper with holes along the sides used in old printers like dot-matrix
A way of bending paper to make a zigzag shape like an accordion, often used in brochures and maps
A way of folding paper that makes a zig-zag, often for maps or brochures
A pattern where paper, cloth, or rock is bent back and forth like an accordion
A series of paper folds that go back and forth like the letter Z
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fanfold as a noun comes from the parts fan and fold, where fan suggests 'open and spread' like a hand fan. So fanfold names continuous paper folded in a zigzag that can be fed through printers and torn off along perforations.