Collators The Options Are Open

"We had a lot of trouble feeding certain kinds of paper," he remarks.

Sometimes he would have to stop the machine after it put together two or three books and adjust it. Other times the collator wouldn't run the paper at all, and the in-plant's four employees had to borrow people from other departments to "walk the tables," as Free puts it—manually collating jobs like campus handbooks and carrying them to the stapler.