Collators - Upgrade And Breathe Easier

So after years of wearing out the treads on his Keds, when it finally came time to replace the old collator, Hughes opted for the tower-style Standard Horizon SpeedVAC 100.

Nevertheless, some in-plants still favor horizontal collators.

"I think tower collators are somewhat limited from the viewpoint of what they can do," asserts Orehowsky, of LRP Publications. "First off, if you're running friction feed on the tower collator, you're going to have trouble with coated stocks, and the accuracy is not as good as that of a pile-feed vacuum-operated system.