Recommended 12 station collator?

[dagoof]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a SRA3 12 station collator, likely be handling coated digitally printed stock - don't have a big budget though, so will be scraping around the used market! Would the Horizon AC1200 do the job (friction fed)? Any machines I should look at/avoid?

Thanks

 

[davidspiel]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a SRA3 12 station collator, likely be handling coated digitally printed stock - don't have a big budget though, so will be scraping around the used market! Would the Horizon AC1200 do the job (friction fed)? Any machines I should look at/avoid?

Thanks

You are better off finding a heavy duty collator-- not a tower collator. A heavy duty, floor model collator will last you for decades. You can see some here: Reconditioning Process

TY

David Spiel
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[dagoof]

Hi David,

Thanks, unfortunately I don't have the room (or likely budget) for a floor model like that!

Spoke to someone regarding the work it's required for and they reckoned a suction tower model should do the job?

 

[Eighty7]

Spoke to someone regarding the work it's required for and they reckoned a suction tower model should do the job?

Yep, I think you are going to need a suction feed collator for the stock you mentioned. Tower models will work fine with typical paper stocks.

Since you already mentioned Horizon, the VAC-1000 and VAC-600 series are solid machines.

 

[dagoof]

Thanks 87, will check them out!