Tuesday, August 30, 2005
New Fellowes Office Paper Shredder
The newly re-designed Fellowes SB-95C, formerly known as the Fellowes C-14, was designed to handle the regular shredding needs of a small office/home office. Designed for high performance, the Fellowes SB-95C quietly shreds up to 17 sheet of 20lb paper at one time. Plus it safely shreds CD's, credit cards, small paper clips and staples. Its' unique slim design fits between file cabinets, in a common area or right beside a desk. Using the SB-95C to shred confidential papers helps to protect against identity theft and is recommended for FACTA compliance.
The Fellowes SB-95C Office paper shredder is the popular Fellowes C-14, with a new, updated look! This office shredder will shred up to 17 sheets of 20lb paper at one time into extra-secure confetti sized, cross cut particles. The SB-95C safely shreds CDs, credit cards, staples and small paper clips. (CDs and credit cards should be shred 1 at a time.) For added convenience, this Fellowes office paper shredder shuts off automatically when the wastebasket is full or the shredder is jammed. It's fully enclosed 10-gallon wastebasket slides out for easy emptying, and the SB-95C comes with casters for easy mobility. Fellowes offers an excellent warranty to back up their product. This paper shredder has a full One (1) year warranty on all parts and labor/ and seven (7) years parts and labor on cutting cylinders.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Fellowes Departmental Paper Shredders
The Fellowes Powershred ® line of departmental shredders are powerful commercial shredders for the large office, with 10 or more users, needing to shred high volumes of office documents. The 480 strip cut model will shred 36-38 sheets of paper per pass into 7/32" strips and the 520 will handle 38-40 sheets. Heavy duty 1.9 or 2.1 H.P. motors provide the power to handle larger runs without interruption. Fellowes departmental shredders come with an extra wide 16" paper entry width and the built in paper tray permits feeding of continuous 132 column computer forms. A one piece hardened steel cutting cylinder accept staples, credit cards, and small paper clips. They also Feature a large 39.1 gallon waste container capacity for longer periods in between bag changes. Equipped with an auto stop function, the Fellowes departmental paper shredders Automatically stop and alert the operator with an indicator light when waste container is full. These paper shredders are also available in cross-cut models. More InfoShop for Paper Shredders
Monday, August 22, 2005
Olympia Departmental Paper Shredders
A popular choice! - High Performance for All Around Use!Olympia Departmental paper shredders are high performance paper shredders for all around office use. Various models. The 3190.4 strip-cut with 30-35 sheet capacity, 1/8" shred size and 1.25 hp continuous duty motor. The Ultra-Performer 5230.6 strip-cut comes complete with power to spare and the highest capacity in its class (50-60 sheets in a pass/ 1/4" shred size). The 5034.4 is a high performance cross-cut shredder for the security conscious department or office. Featuring a 35-40 sheet capacity, and 1/8" x 1 1/2" shred size. This paper shredder has a light sensor for automatic activation, manual and auto-reverse, and a 16” feed width. Optional forms rack for continuous feeding. The largest capacity model is the 1440.4C or VS (variable speed option) cross-cut shredder with about 70 sheet capacity, 1/8" x 1 1/2" shred size. 16" feed opening, or 17" on the VS which also comes with a large hopper with smooth paddle feed technology that accepts whole bins full at a time. A Dust-free fully enclosed mobile base with removable large capacity catch basket is also a standard feature. Easy keyboard operation with rotary main switch and soft touch operation adds to the conveience and usability of this machine. More Info
Friday, August 19, 2005
MBM Destroyit ® Departmental Paper Shredders
A Popular Choice in Departmental ShreddingMBM offers a departmental shredder model for virtually any need. The MBM 4107 comes in two strip-cut and one cross-cut option. It features a large feeding table and conveyor belt delivery with hand guard for safety. The easy-to-use control panel includes lighted push buttons with optical indicators for forward/stop/reverse, main switch and emergency switch. A large shred compartment is accessed by an electronically secured door at the rear of the paper shredder. The 4002 series will do thick piles and even file folders in one pass. Pedal "airs" shreds to increase cabinet capacity. Automatic start/stop via photo cell and stand-by switch plus rocker switch for forward/stop/reverse make. Choose from either strip cut or cross-cut, both come equiped with a 16” wide throat. The 3102, 3802, 4003 and 4004 models are also available to meet a variety of needs.
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HSM Departmental Paper Shredders - A Popular Choice!
HSM offers a good variety of departmental shredders from the 225.2 (up to 30 sheets in a pass, also shreds CDs, credit cards and diskettes, available in strip, cross and high-security cuts) to the 390.2 (16” throat, large capacity, multi-media shredding, quiet) and 411.1 high-volume shredder (continuous duty motor with thermal protection, 45 sheets capacity and features found in the smaller output models). The P-450cc is a workhorse cross-cut shredder with a large bin and 17” throat making it great for placement in a central location and use by several departments. Multi-media as well as paper, clips, staples can be easily shred by these machines. These are heavy duty shredders that are intended for continuous use by many users in an office setting.You will find the best prices, selection and service on HSM paper shredders at Factory Express, Inc.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Affordable Cross Cut Shredding From Fellowes
The Fellowes P400C-2 is a personal size cross cut paper shredder designed for home use. Perfect for shredding old receipts, unsolicited credit applications and other confidential paperwork. Increased security with the smaller confetti cut shredder particles (5/32" x 2") and a 5 sheet capacity. The Fellowes P400C-2 paper shredder accepts staples for your shredding convenience. It also features a 9 1/2" paper entry, which easily accepts any standard or legal size document. The 4 gallon waste basket can hold up to 110 shredded sheets before needing to be changed. The safety interlock switch automatically shuts off when the shredding head is lifted off the basket.
Features:
- Speed - 12 ft/min
- Capacity - up to 5 sheets
- Shred Size - 5/32" x 2"
- Powerful, light duty shredder handles up to 5 sheets per pass and 10-20 shredding passes per day for about 100 total sheets.
- Cross cut shred provides additional security.
- Mechanical start/stop function provides the convenience of one-handed operation.
- Comes complete with 4 gallon wastebasket that holds up to 110 shredded sheets.
- 3 year cutter warranty, one year full warranty on shredder
Departmental shredders
Departmental shredders are typically bigger versions of office shredders. Do you need to shred a considerable volume of paper everyday? Maybe various offices need a central location and a big machine to handle multiple departments. If you have a large office or a department that has high paper output you probably need a heavy-duty shredder.
In addition to typical features like auto stop/start, strip-cut and cross-cut versions, quality cutting systems, warranties and a variety of shred sizes (depending on manufacturer and model) you’ll notice that departmental shredders are bigger. They need to be to handle the volume of documents that large offices shred. You’ll also get wider feed openings (at least 12” and often 16-17”) which means you can shred a bigger stack of paper at a time.
MBM Destroyit®, HSM, GBC, Fellowes and Olympia are names you can rely on for quality departmental or large-office shredders.
These heavy-duty shredders will require some occasional maintenance. You’ll find most come with a continuous motor ability, but that doesn’t mean running it non-stop, 24/7 for days on end. Like any machine, give it a break once in a while. If you buy a cross-cut machine you need to regularly lubricate it with shredder oil – see shredder maintenance.
Think about where you want to park your shredder. These machines take up more space, plus you probably want a location convenient to your co-workers. Perhaps close to the copier or fax machine, but do factor in noise. (How would you feel about sitting next to the sound of shredded paper all day long?)
Be prepared to spend anywhere from $1000+ to $7,000 for the right departmental shredder. For that price you want quality and you’ll get that from the top manufacturers. Nice features like a continuous feed fold out table, high speed operation, multi-media capability and various electronic features are included on many models. Do your research, price compare and talk to the sales representative. Find out if you need special power needs and what shipping considerations you’ll have to deal with (the big machines will go by freight truck and you might need a lift gate or help getting it into the building).
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Do I have to oil my Paper Shredder?
All Paper Shredders need shredder oil to continue to function properly. It is very common for paper dust to build up inside of the cutting assembly. After time, this sediment can become packed together like cement. Oil serves to soften this packed dust, which allows the movement of the cutting head. The proper movement of this head will push the dust out of the paper shredder. The finer the cut the paper shredder makes, the more oil it will need. Small particle cut shredders and D.O.D. spec machines require a lot of oil, and for these machines we recommend an Automatic Lubricating device.
Paper shredders, as with all electromechanical equipment, will not operate efficiently unless they are properly maintained. Periodic oiling is necessary to allow the shredder to operate at maximum efficiency. Frequency of oiling will vary greatly with the volume of use and the shred size. A shredder with a 1/4” shred width used only 1 to 2 hours per week will only require a weekly oiling. A crosscut shredder, however, should be oiled every 1/2 hour of shredding time.
The procedure for oiling a shredding machine is very simple and can be done by any operator. The oil is packaged in a squeeze bottle and is applied directly onto the cutting head in a fine stream. This is done through the paper entry throat. Take 1-2 seconds to oil from one side of the opening to the other. Turn the machine in reverse for about 10-15 seconds to allow the oil to transfer to all parts of the cutting head. The final step is to shred a few sheets of paper to remove any excess oil.
Shredder oil is the only lubricant which should be used on your shredder. Shredder oil is of special formulation which leaves no residue on the cutters. Other oils will attract paper dust and in turn clog the cutting head.
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Paper Shredders Defined
Paper shredders are used to cut paper into very fine strips or tiny paper chips. This is usually done by individuals or organizations to destroy confidential documents in such a manner that they are impossible to read. Privacy experts often recommend that individuals shred bills, account statements, and other documents to keep those who would use the items to commit fraud or identity theft.
However, careless users of cheaper shredders can have their privacy violated despite this precaution. For instance, if a person simply shreds the documents and does nothing else beyond putting it in the garbage, all the shredded pieces can be collected by an investigator. Once collected, they can be reassembled in an attempt to discover the content of the documents (see Unshredding). For maximum security, documents should be shredded so that the words of the document go through the shredder horizontally, perpendicular to the blades. Many of the documents in the Enron accountancy scandal were fed through the shredder the wrong way, making them easier to reassemble.
Construction
Most paper shredders come with a waste basket of their own. Those that don't are built to fit over another waste basket. They range in size and price from small and inexpensive units meant for home use, to larger units used in business settings that cost several hundred dollars.
These machines are classified according to the size and shape of the waste they produce.
Strip-cut shredders use rotating knives to cut narrow strips as long as the original sheet of paper. These strips can be reassembled by a determined investigator, so this type of shredder is the least secure. It also creates the highest volume of waste.
Cross-cut shredders use two contra-rotating drums to cut rectangular or parallelogram-shaped shreds.
Particle-cut shredders create tiny square or circular pieces.
Disintegrators and granulators repeatedly cut the paper at random until the particles are small enough to pass through a mesh.
Hammermills and pulverizers reduce the paper to dust using a combination of rotating and stationary blades.
There are numerous standards for the security levels of paper shredders, including:
- Level 1 = 12 mm strips
- Level 2 = 6 mm strips
- Level 3 = 2 mm strips (Confidential)
- Level 4 = 2 x 15 mm particles (Commercially Sensitive)
- Level 5 = 0.8 x 12 mm particles (Top Secret or Classified)
- Level 6 = 0.8 x 4 mm particles (Top Secret or Classified)
- United States Department of Defense (DoD)
- Top Secret = 0.8 x 11.1 mm (1/32" × 7/16") (= Federal Specification F-S-001169 ?)
- United States NSA/CSS 02-01 = 1 × 4 mm
There are also alternative shredders that use burning, chemical decomposition, or composting for disposing of the shreds.
After the Supreme Court decision in California v. Greenwood, paper shredders became popular among even ordinary Americans as a tool for privacy enforcement.
Unshredding
It is possible to reassemble the pieces of the documents back. If the shreds are not disturbed, the noodles or particles that belonged to the same document tend to stay in proximity, though the smaller the shreds are the better they mix. Furthermore, when the documents are fed to the shredder in a way that the lines of text are not perpendicular to the shredder blades, longer parts of text remain legible on the stripes.
Shredded documents can be reassembled even manually. After the Iranian Revolution and the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, Iranians enlisted local carpet weavers, who, with patience developed in generations of tying 400 knots per inch, reconstructed the pieces by hand. The result was an update of shredding techniques used by the United States government to include pulverizing, pulping, and chemical decomposition, but these methods are not always available in emergencies.
Modern computer technology considerably speeds up the process. The strips get scanned from both sides, then the computer tries to find obvious matches, and only requires human attention when it can not reliably decide on its own. Several companies already offer commercial document reconstruction services, for example the Houston based ChurchStreet Technology, which developed their process as a response to the demand sparkled by the collapse of the Enron Corporation. As of 2003, ChurchStreet charged roughly $2,000 for a cubic foot of strip-shreds, and $8,000-$10,000 of cross-shreds of standard size of 1/32 × 7/16 inch (0.8 × 11.1 mm) strips, and its clients are largely law agencies and private law firms. According to Robert Johnson of the National Association for Information Destruction, the demand is huge.
Another data recovery effort underway is the reconstruction of shredded archives of East-German Stasi.
Apparently some identity theft rings are enlisting methamphetamine users to unshred documents; the drug gives the users the patience to reassemble documents by hand, with no need for sleep.
Forensic identification
The shredders display certain device-specific characteristics, "fingerprints", like the exact spacing of the blades, the degree and pattern of their wear, etc. These can be reconstructed from the minute variations of size of the paper strips and the microscopic marks on their edges, and by comparison with the strips produced by known shredders, the shredder that was used to destroy a given document may be traced back to.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
HSM Office Paper Shredders
HSM offers professional office paper shredding in an attractive design with solid cutters and quality electronics. Some HSM paper shredder models will shred CDs, diskettes and credit cards. Easy open containers, strip and cross-cut versions, and automatic start/stop and reverse. The two series are the 105.2 for medium duty and 125.2 for greater office needs. 9 ½” feed opening on 105.2 and 10” on 125.2. Shred size and sheet capacity varies and is industry competitive. HSM paper shredders come complete with a 1 year warranty free from workmanship defects and 5 year warranty on the cutting system components.For more information & to find the lowest prices on HSM Paper Shredders, visit Factory-Express.com.
Kobra Office Paper Shredders
Kobra offers A number of medium, general and high-capacity office size paper shredders featuring outstanding performance, considerable sheet capacity as high as 40-50 sheets on larger models (20-29 on smaller), continuous duty motors, strip and cross-cut, feed sizes from 9 ½” – 16”, automatic cut-off in the event of a paper jam and handle staples and paper clips. The 240 and 260 series Kobra Paper Shredders are affordable and the SS5 versions will shred CDs, diskettes and credit cards. The 385 series paper shredders are designed for continuous forms. The 390 and 400 series are high volume. All Kobra Paper Shredders are backed by their 1 year workmanship and 5 year cutting head warranty.Click here for more information & to find the lowest prices on Kobra Paper Shredders
Olympia Office Paper Shredders
The Olympia line of office shredders includes their 1400, 1500 and 1600 series. These are all well-made shredders capable of handling the volume of paper to meet any office situation. They come in strip and cross-cut models, quiet operation, feed openings of 9 ½”,10 ¼” and the extra wide 16”, large capacity catchbaskets, auto start/stop, and full jam, bag full and door open indicators. Sheet capacity ranges from 10-30 sheets depending on model and cut. Olympia also makes the large capacity 14.52 shredder, the special table top 3825 shredder for continuous form paper and the 1500.8 that shreds multimedia (CD-ROMs, diskettes and credit cards).For more information & to find the lowest prices on Olympia Paper Shredders, Click Here.
MBM Destroyit ® Office Paper Shredders
The Destroyit line of paper shredders is reliable, low maintenance, high capacity and relatively inexpensive. The 2400, 2500 and 2600 series will meet the wide range of office size needs. Strip-cut and cross-cut models will take staples and paper clips. Automatic start-stop and 3-position rocker switch, continuous duty motor and five year-limited warranty on cutting heads. These paper shredders tend to be quieter due to the design. Feed openings start at 8-3/4” and proceed to 9 1/2” and 10 ¼”. Shred sizes and sheet capacity give a good range depending on model and cut size and a variety of shred sizes. The upper end models of MBM Destroyit paper shredders have casters for easy movement.For more information & to find the lowest prices on MBM Paper Shredders, Click Here.
GBC Shredmaster ® Office Paper Shredders
The GBC Shredmaster ® line of paper shredders includes low and high-end office shredder options. Strip-cut and cross-cut models will take staples and paper clips. Feed openings range from 9 ¼” to 15” and sheet capacity from 11 to 22 sheets. 1130s, 2230s and 2250x are the smaller office models. Step up to the 3000 series for medium—duty and larger office models include the 4000 and 5000 series. All Shredmaster shredders have a 3 year warranty plus 5 years on cutting heads, continuous-duty motors, auto on-off, jam-stopper and the industry’s only on-site service network.For More Information & to find the lowest prices on GBC Shredders Click Here.
Office Shredders...For medium to frequent use.
The top paper shredder manufacturers have created a wide assortment of high quality paper shredders to meet the demands of the modern office. GBC Shredmaster ®, MBM Destroyit ®, Fellowes, Olympia, Kobra, HSM, Dahle are the top of the line in paper shredder quality.
Office shredders are typically made to withstand the demands of several users and can handle anywhere between ½ to 3 cases of paper per day. This makes them great choices for department and company needs. (If your company needs something bigger than an office shredder be sure to read about departmental shredders.)
Office shredder models are available in both strip-cut and cross-cut versions and many offer one or more shred sizes. You can even find several strip cut models have been specially designed to shred CD-Roms, disks and credit cards! Equipped with features that help to make the shredding process hassle-free, office shredders often come with wider throats(9-1/4” to 15-1/4”) to accommodate legal paper and continuous forms, continuous duty motors, and bag full shut-off’s and/or reverse switches to prevent jams.
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