Finishing The Job?The Right Way

A sheet that is friction-fed is rotated by a rubber tire, and the pressure between the sheet being fed and the sheet it is being separated from can generally cause marking and smudging.

Suction- or vacuum-feed collators use either pulsed air, a stream of air or a combination of the two to separate the sheets prior to feeding. By using air to separate the sheets and a vacuum to pick them up, marking is eliminated.