Advantages Of Collation - QMS 1060E Operation

This mechanism of introducing a forced boundary is known as chunk
collation. Chunk collation breaks a document into several smaller,
more manageable sets. For example, in the following illustration, cop-
ies "a" and "b" of each set must be manually combined to create one
collated document. The order of printing is copy 1(a), copy 2(a), copy
3(a), copy 4(a), copy 1(b), copy 2(b), copy 3(b), and copy 4(b)..
The main advantages of collation are user convenience and the time
savings derived from not having to separate and sort individual cop-
ies of a print job. Each copy of the print job exists as a whole set
unless chunk collation has occurred.
If chunk collation does occur, it may be best to use a header and
trailer page to determine the beginning and end of each collation
sequence. (See chapter 4, "Printer Configuration," of Reference for
information on using header and trailer pages.)