Laclede Printing Company in St. Louis is your source for multipart business forms. There are several types of multipart forms, and usually each different part is on a different color of bond paper. Those used most often by small businesses are classified as follows:

• Unit Sets (also known as Snapout Forms) -- Multipart forms bound at the top or on one side with a tab; can be either carbonless (also known as an NCR Form) or carbon interleaved, depending on the user's preference.
• Edge Glued Forms -- Similar to unit sets but without the tab, and always on carbonless paper; usually a good choice for short runs.
• Continuous Forms -- The bottom of one form is attached to the top of the next form and they are separated by a perforation, with line holes running down both sides of every form, in order that they can be pulled through a tractor feed printer. Continuous forms were quite prevalent when dot matrix printers were in wide use in the 1980's and 1990's, and are still used today.

A variety of operations can be performed when manufacturing multipart business forms. They can be numbered, printed in one or more colors, printed on the back, perforated, drilled with holes, or affixed with labels. The most common paper stock used is a lightweight bond and sometimes a tag stock as the bottom sheet when a heavier weight paper is needed. Ten or more parts can be collated into a form, but if the user wishes to print or type on it, it is wise to limit it to no more than five or six parts, because the fewer parts there are the more legible the writing on the bottom sheets will be.

Up to 10,000 forms can be produced from your original artwork and delivered in approximately ten to twelve working days. If we are to compose the form for you (that is, produce the original) or for larger quanitities, please allow slightly more time. If you would like a price for producing your form please mail some samples of the form to us if they are available, and if none are available please provide a sketch or mockup with the information about your form and we will determine what needs to be done. We will help you get what you want, and make it as easy as we can for you.

Please contact us by telephone, fax, email, or postal mail to get started on producing the forms that you need.