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(More customer reviews)Our office needed a replacement for a shredder that we had overused and mistreated for about seven years. Shredding, routinely, between 500 -3,000 sheets of paper per day with the curve rising quickly, we needed to find a machine that would 1) deal easily with a seemingly ever increasing volume of paper. 2) shred it into confetti-cut to assure complete destruction of confidential data and 3) had the capacity to shred not only paper, but plastic cards, CDs and to not be easily jammed by commonplace staples and the paper clips that people routinely fail to remove before shredding documents. After a goodly amount of research and discussion, we settled on this Fellows C-320C and, after several months of operation are pleased to report that it is meeting our needs and expectations in all ways.
Fellows is probably one of the better known brands of shredders. I own one at home that I purchased at COSTCO and am delighted with it's reliable performance after almost two years. I shall expect nothing less than that from this one at work. Not only does it 'handle' plastic credit cards, CDs, staples and paper clips - it has a separate slot into which cards and CDs can be inserted for destruction. The confetti-cut setting yields pieces 5/32" X 1 - 1/8"; small enough to ensure the security we require. It offers a choice of strip or confetti-cut settings. This may be important to you because the settings differ in their shredding capacities. Set on Confetti, it lists itself as having the capacity to shred 7,000 pages per day, and being able to shred 14-16 pages at one pass. Set on Strip-cut (7/32"), a simpler, somewhat less secure, but good for most common usages, it's daily capacity is upped to 14,000 and the number of pages that can be handled in a single pass (entry) to 26 - 28.
The width of paper is limited to 10" and the card shredding capacity is far more limited to one per pass or a total of ten per day on either setting.
Regular maintenance is limited to, as with most machines of this type, a biweekly lubing of the cutting element while running in Reverse for a minute. Hopefully, that's all it takes. It is all other Fellows machines have taken. The lubricant can be had from Fellows (their own brand) or, as I have discovered at home, good quality vegetable oil will accomplish the same thing.
The controls are simple, few and easily intuitive. There are only three warning lights: Door not closed, Paper jam and Need to empty the bin, and only four buttons: Off, Forward, Reverse and a Turbo Jam Release... just in case! The shredding feature itself is, of course, automatically activated as one would expect when material is inserted.
There are certainly other medium-heavy duty office shredders to consider, but we chose this Fellows and have had no regrets!
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The New Fellowes Powershred C-320C is a powerful confetti-cut shredder designed to meet the needs of a department with a range of 6-10 users. With its contemporary styling and soft lines, this shredder also suits any office décor. Equipped with a 1.7 HP thermally protected motor the C-320C shreds 14-16 sheets per pass into 5/32" x 1-1/8" confetti particles as fast as 20 feet per minute. Includes the New Turbo Jam Release button for a fast, easy way to clear jams. Durable, hardened-steel cutters accept credit cards, staples and small paper clips, while a designated slot safely shreds CDs. The C-320C also features an electronic auto start/stop function for quick, easy shredder operation and is designed to shut off automatically and alert operator with troubleshooting indicator lights when a jam occurs, wastebasket is full or door is ajar. Door offers convenient holder of oil, manual and shredder bags, while the 24.6-gallon wastebasket pull out for easy waste disposal.
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