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What does collate mean?

Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:17 am

My dad got a new double-sided printer, and there's this option to "collate". What is this collate?

Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:25 am

Say you print out a 5-page paper three times. Without collating, it would print the first page three times, then the second three times, then the third, and so on. If you collate, it prints the five pages in order then repeats twice.

Non-collated:

AAABBBCCCDDDEEE

Collated:

ABCDEABCDEABCDE

Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:27 am

theonlysaneone wrote:Say you print out a 5-page paper three times. Without collating, it would print the first page three times, then the second three times, then the third, and so on. If you collate, it prints the five pages in order then repeats twice.

Non-collated:

AAABBBCCCDDDEEE

Collated:

ABCDEABCDEABCDE


Leading to terrible jokes about a collated rhyme scheme.

Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:27 am

Ohh I see! Noiiiice!! Thanks.
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