Method for manufacture of business forms

In a method for manufacture of business forms, the steps of advancing at least three superposed webs along a generally horizontal processing path wherein said webs are simultaneously and continuously processed, said processing including at least across perforation, advancing only one of said webs further in said path to a two-wide folder and zig-zag folding said one web, moving one of the remaining webs laterally of said path to a second path parallel to the first mentioned path and introducing the same into said two-wide folder and zig-zag folding the same, moving the other of said remaining webs a distance laterally of the first mentioned path substantially further than the distance said one of the remaining webs was moved laterally into a third path parallel with said first mentioned path and then folding said other of said remaining webs in a second folder separate from said two wide folder, said folders being generally aligned in a direction transverse of said first mentioned path whereby at least three stacks of zig-zag folded webs are presented in side-by-side relation along a common front for takeaway.