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Paper Shredders - How to Choose a Right Paper Shredder
Paper shredders are used to cut paper into smaller very fine strips or tiny paper chads. Shredders are being used at Offices, Government organizations, businesses, and even in homes to destroy private, confidential, or sensitive documents, credit cads, ID cards, junk mail and waste paper. Privacy experts recommend that you must shred utility and other bills, credit card and bank account statements, and other documents that could be used by thieves to commit fraud or identity theft. Let us discuss the various types of Shredder: There are several Shredders in the market. Shredders range in size and price from small and inexpensive units meant for a few pages, to large commercial units used by commercial shredding services that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and can shred millions of documents an hour. Some shredders used by a commercial shredding service are built into a shredding truck. In this article, however, we will only look at the Personal Shredders and light Commercial Units, costing few hundreds. A small shredder is an electrically powered device, blades cutting paper vertically as well as horizontally, generating that confetti-like output. There are unpowered shredders also available in the market such as special scissors with multiple blade pair and shredders are hand cranked. These machines are classified according to the size and shape of the shreds they produce. Shredder sizes can range from standard scissors or hand held shredding devices all the way up to car size shredders. 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 or confetti-cut shredders use two contra-rotating drums to cut rectangular, parallelogram, or diamond-shaped shreds. Although, these two are same terms for the same type of shredders, but different manufacturers try to differentiate between the two and prefer using one name or the other. The difference between the two, if some exists, is very subtle in type of cut your get out of them – the former giving more rectangular chads and the latter giving square cuts 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 pound the paper through a screen. Pierce and Tear Rotating blades pierce the paper and then tear it apart. Grinders are like a rotating shaft with cutting blades that grinds the paper until it is very small and falls through a screen.
When purchasing Shredders, one must also look at the Volume or Capacity Rating of the shredders. The shredders are designed to perform optimally only at the paper handling capacity, which is specified. There are additional features, like Automatic Start/Stop Feature, Buzzer to alert you when the waste basket is full, Reverse Feed to clear out a paper jam, and a See-through Window to check if the waste basket may be full. |
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