paper drill bits

Making holes in tags is something was a finishing job that I did frequently on the ancient drilling machine I operated in the print shop where I worked many years ago. I had never seen a punch for this task other than the familiar 3-hole desktop type for a few sheets of bond paper at a time. High capacity

It's a frequent question that we get several times a week: someone calls in and needs help identifying the correct drill bits for their paper drill. We usually have to go through a series of questions to get to the brand and style of the bit, then it comes down to capacity and diameter. In order to

CFS' August 2015 newsletter showcases a new blog post that shows you all the different ways you can get help to identify paper drill bit styles for your drill. Going along with that article, it seems only fitting to make this month's selection from the video vault a quick tip list on how to properly

Pardon the pun, but sometimes it's a 'bit' difficult to identify the proper style drill bit for a paper drill. It's a call we get frequently, someone has purchased or inherited an older paper drilling machine - or perhaps the last person to order new paper drill bits has left the company. Finding the

It seems so long ago when we wrote our very first blog post on 5 Ways To Extend The Life Of Your Drill Bits and we've covered quite a large number of topics since then. Yet paper drill bits continue to be a very popular subject.

Lately, we have been getting quite a few phone calls on paper drill bit

Q:            “I'm using your drill bits to cut through laminated sheets. Is there a different bit that I should be using? I recently cut 5000 cards and about half-way through the job the bit was so dull that it no longer cut!”

A:   Laminated sheets wreak havoc on paper drill bits, but there are

Q: "We occasionally need to drill holes for some binding jobs we do, but the amount we do does not justify the cost of a Paper Drill. Can I use your paper drill bits in a regular handheld drill to do it?

A: We actually get this question a lot. We do not recommend it since the paper drilling bits

Q:   “We have a drill press, but the drill bits we purchased to drill paper will not fit - they are too big and we have tried different sizes. How do we get it to work?

A:  The drill bits we supply are specifically designed to work with paper drill presses. The shafts are hollow which allows the

Q: “ We have a Challenge Paper Drill, but the bits we have been ordering seem to be too big. We have to adjust the height so high that everything just blows out the back of the drill. We have been ordering the Challenge “Style A” drill bits, what can we do?"

A: Odds are you just need a different length

Back when we first started our blog, the very first article we wrote was '5 Tips To Extend Your Paper Drill Bit's Life.' Unlike most of our newsletter issues since, we did not have a video associated with/demonstrating the advice. So, here you go - for your viewing and paper drilling prosperity we