Report Separation Method

Although the manual process of report separation is simple and straightforward, the process is very time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone.

Individual reports that come off the printer are physically separated and stacked in piles according to recipient. Often, one report contains sections belonging to different users or departments. In these cases, the individual report must be manually examined to identify the sections or pages that belong to different users. These pages are physically separated and stacked in piles according to user. Finally, all reports in a pile relating to one user are bound together and shipped to the recipient location. Control-D automates this manual process by "decollating" the reports.