Closed folder dieline
Free closed folder dieline template: a folder that closes round a stack of papers like a flat box, with walls, inner flaps and a tongue that locks it shut. Enter the size and stack thickness; get a print-ready PDF.
About this dieline
About this dieline
A closed folder holds a stack of papers like a flat box: the back has a low wall and a flap along its top and bottom that fold in over the pages, the front cover closes over them, and a side flap wraps round onto the cover and locks with a tongue in a slot. No glue, and nothing slips out.
Enter the closed size and the stack thickness. You get a PDF at true size with the cut outline, the slot, the folds and the printable area, seen from the outside, the side you print. A flap below the cover folds up inside it to hold loose sheets. The usual size is 9 × 12 in (228.6 × 304.8 mm), for letter and A4 pages.
How thick a stack does it hold?
Set it in Stack thickness, in millimetres: 1 mm is about 10 sheets of office paper, so the default 10 mm holds about 100. The spines and the walls are made that deep. The smallest is 5.5 mm, the largest 50 mm, about a ream.
How does it stay shut?
The side flap folds over the front cover and its tongue goes into the slot in the cover, then tucks under it. The slot sits a third of the way across, right where the side flap's edge lands.