Business Form Printing.
NCR carbonless. Numbered invoices. Inspection sheets. Work orders. Time tickets. Service tags. The forms that get clipped to a clipboard, ride around in a truck, get rained on, and still have to come back legible on Monday morning. We print them in 1, 2, 3, and 4-part with carbon-paper backing or true NCR.
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What we print for this category.
Sizes, stocks, finishes, turnaround.
| Property ↕ | Detail ↕ |
|---|---|
| Form types | NCR (no carbon required) · carbon-set · single-part with serial # |
| Parts | 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5-part collation · top, middle, bottom colors customizable |
| Sizes | 5.5×8.5 half-letter · 8.5×11 letter · 8.5×14 legal · custom up to 11×17 |
| Numbering | Sequential · skip · duplicate · starting at any value |
| Binding | Padded (50/sheet) · wraparound chipboard · book-bound with carbons |
| Turnaround | 5-7 business days · 48-hr rush · reorders 3-5 days from prior plate |
Industries & use cases.
What to know about business form printing.
NCR, carbonless and carbon-set: what the terms mean
NCR stands for no carbon required. The sheets themselves are coated so that pressure from a pen transfers the writing to the sheet below, with no loose carbon paper in between. It is what most people mean when they say carbonless forms, and it is what nearly every modern multi-part form is built from.
Carbon-set is the older method, with an interleaved carbon sheet doing the transfer. It still exists for specific applications but it is messier and largely superseded. If you are replacing an old form and are not sure which you have, send a sample and the shop will identify it.
Parts, colours and collation order
A multi-part form is described by how many sheets are in a set. Two-part gives you an original and one copy, three-part gives two copies, and four and five-part sets exist for jobs where several departments each keep a sheet.
The sheets are usually printed on different coloured stock so that everyone knows which copy is theirs at a glance. White, canary, pink and goldenrod is the conventional order. That order is worth fixing before printing, because it becomes a habit across a whole crew and is annoying to change later.
Numbering, perforation and binding
Sequential numbering is the reason a lot of forms exist at all. It can start at any value, which matters when you are continuing a series from a previous book rather than restarting at one. Skip numbering and duplicate numbering are both available for jobs where the parts need to share a number.
Forms are bound as padded sets, as wraparound books with a chipboard backer that slides behind the set you are writing on, or as loose padded sheets. Perforation lets a stub or a receipt tear away cleanly while the rest of the set stays in the book.
Replacing a form you already use
The easiest way to reorder is to send a scan or a physical sample of the current form along with the changes you want. Rebuilding from an existing sheet is routine and avoids re-specifying the layout from scratch.
Related everyday paperwork such as invoice books, continuous forms and wrap-around book forms is also listed under office supplies, and branded letterhead and envelopes are on business essentials. Bound manuals and tabbed operational handbooks sit under booklets and programs.
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