QMS 2060 Operation - Chunk Collation

Collating 

Output

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Collate through your application.

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Note: Collating through your application is more time consuming 

than collating through the printer. The application sends the 

complete job the requested number of times rather than sending 

it once and holding data in printer memory.

For a multiple-copy document with collation On, there must be enough 

Display List memory to hold the display list blocks for all pages in the 

collation range. (See “Display List” in the “Memory” section in chapter 5 

of the Reference manual for detailed information on display list blocks.) 

If there is not enough memory, then a chunk collation boundary is 

forced after the last compiled page of the collation range. 

Chunk Collation

The mechanism of introducing a forced boundary in a collated job is 

known as chunk collation. Chunk collation breaks a document into 

several smaller, more manageable sets by gathering the pages into 

“chunks.” When each set is printed, it frees up memory resources to 

compile subsequent pages of the document. For example, in the fol-

lowing illustration, copies “a” and “b” of each set must be manually 

combined to create one collated document. The order of printing is 

copy 1(a), copy 2(a), copy 3(a), copy 4(a), copy 1(b), copy 2(b), copy 

3(b), and copy 4(b).

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Note: The order of output on your QMS 2060 Print System is from 

first to last page in the output tray. You can add additional memory to 

the printer to avoid chunk collation. See appendix A, “QMS Customer 

Support,” for sales and support telephone numbers.