Ref: HYC198315 When it comes to printing multiple pages, one of the questions that always crops up is, do you want your documents to be collated? But what does it actually mean
In it’s basic form, the definition of collate is to collect or gather the related information together. The information refers to any form of data, text, or documents.
Collated printing refers to how prints are arranged as they print, and is useful if you are printing more than one large document that needs to be kept in the right order.
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