Overview: The Martin Yale12-Station electric collator is a lightweight easy to use electriccollating machine that provides all of the advantages of high speedprofessional collating in a compact and attractive shell.Itis designed to help collate multi paged reports, bulletins, contracts,newsletters at a speed of up to twenty-one twelve page sets per minute.Thismake the Martin Yale 12-station electric collator an excellent choicefor in plant printers, copy shops, schools, churches or corporateoffices. TheMartin Yale 12-station electric collator is capable of processing up to21 sets of documents per minute. This means that it can collate one setof documents every three seconds. Or it can be used to produce two setsof six pages every three seconds yielding up to 42 documents per minute.TheMartin Yale Electric Collator can operate automatically at a speed of21 cycles per minute. Or if you can't keep up with the machine inautomatic mode, it can be operated in a self paced mode using aconvenient foot pedal. This will allow you to collate documents as fastas you can move.The 12-station electric collator has aspecial retraction feature. This means that pages that are not graspedas part of the collating process will conveniently fall back into thecollating bins. This helps to ensure that the collated sheets won'tback up causing a huge mess if you have to step away from the machinefor a minute or two.Each of the twelve bins on the 6120collator can be loaded with up to 175 sheets of paper. This largecapacity is helpful in increasing productivity by reducing the numberof times you need to reload the machine in order to finish collatingyour job. Althoughthe 6120 collator is electric and automated it still requires anoperator to manually grasp the pages as they are extended from thefront of the machine. The Martin Yale 6120 simply pushes a portion ofeach sheet out of the front of the machine. The operator needs to graspthe 12 pages and stack them in a V-tray, Fully electric stackers Factory on a stack cart or in anotherlocation to keep them organized.The Martin Yale 12-stationcollator is designed for use with 13lb - 110lb non coated paper. It isnot designed for feeding carbonless papers, high gloss stocks, stapledsets or multi-part forms. The pusher assemblies used by the Martin Yale6120 are not designed to work with these types of stocks. Attempting touse the machine with these types of papers will most likely result inmisfeeds and incomplete sets. Recommendation: TheMartin Yale 6120 electric collator is ideal for all types oforganizations that need to assemble newsletters, reports, bulletins,sales materials and other multi paged documents.It is idealfor printers, binderies, mailrooms, and for in plant print shops whoneed to save time in assembling multi-page documents.However,it is important to remember that although the Martin Yale 6120 canoffer incredible collating speeds it still requires an operator toremove each set of documents from the machine as it processes them.