it is much easier to feed papers into than other shredders.
this shredder quietly shreds everything you feed it into confetti sized bits.
this shredder has been excellent - very good quality on the shred, doesn't make noises like a dinosaur with indigestion when you feed a cd or a credit card through it, and the safety mechanism hasn't
my only complaint, and it is minor, is that the shredder sometimes jams with smaller amounts--five or six sheets--of feed.
sometimes, while feeding unopened junk mail through this shredder, it may choke and stop.
i particularly like the automatic stop when the item clears the shredder and then when you feed another paper it revs up.
i will only feed it 1-2 sheets at a time based on the
the sensor element that surrounds the paper feed does stop the machine when you touch it with your finger - a nice safety feature.
when i feed more into it at a time, it slows down, giving me a gauge as to how much i can feed.
it shreds about 8 sheets at once, shreds credit cards, has a safety feature that shuts it off if your fingers get too close to the feed slot, and it is twice as large as the cheap models (less
the 79ci is a powerful shredder - feed it 1 sheet or drop an envelope of junk mail in it - it pulls at the same rate and doesnt make the whining sound that most shreders make.
it cann't feed more than three sheets to shred and it gets jam when i put a credit card.
my only small complaints are you must feed single checks down the middle to be sure to activate the shredder switch and the shredder switch is in further than i think is necessary.
there is even a "traffic light" of sorts that stays green if you are feeding in a correct amount of paper, yellow if the amount gets to be a bit much, and red if you've overdone it.
brand" but i figured i would have this machine for a long time and i liked the feedback from other people who had problems and the fellowes made returns/replacement straightforward - no hassles.
it's not a "full size" shredder, meaning you'ld have to fold 8x11 size paper in half before feeding it into this shredder.
fold sheets in half to feed the shredder.
if you postpone your shredding work and papers pile up then it is tiring that you have to fold each paper twice, because the feeder size is small.
it's very small and i usually have to fold a paper to feed it through, but that's just fine by me.
the machine is easy to use for checks, but 8 1/2" x 11" documents have to be folded or torn to fit the narrow (about 4 1/2") feed slot.
"if cutting time is as important to you as shredding your important documents, the w11c from fellowes is a tough customer that will handle what you can feed it."
the cross-cut shred is small enough to alleviate any security concerns, and it can handle as much paper as i can feed it.
if cutting time is as important to you as shredding your important documents, the w11c from fellowes is a tough customer that will handle what you can feed it.
you can feed up to 11 pages into the machine at once.
also, i tend not to over-feed it.
this baby tears thru junk mail, you dont even have to open it just feed it into the shredder.
my favorite is the fact that it will not allow you to feed a document into it too quickly.
my old shredder was very slow and i had to open all junk mail because my old shredder would jam when i tried to feed in whole letters with envelopes, especially if they contained plastic cards such
i love not having to open all those credit card offer and unfold the pages to feed them through.
i was skeptical about a shredder that is marketed to be able to handle 17 sheets of paper, especially after having used a royal 10-sheet shredder that choked on any cd, and most junk mail that i fed
my small grandchildren were visiting when it arrived and they loved feeding the shredder with my supervision.
this one seems pretty good at taking the paper that you feed it.
8)the foldout tray(plastic) to feed the continuous printer paper could probably only support a half ream as over time i do feel it might get bent from the paper weight.
you can't feed too many sheets in at once, of course, as it is not an industrial shredder, but it does the job and has been working fine.
this is a very inexpensive item that does the work for you provided that you be patient and feed it few papers at a time.
wish the feed slot were a little large and that it had guides for small thin items (negatives were fed through the credit card center area).
the drawbacks are that you have to feed the paper into the slot carefully and evenly.
when feeding papers into the sensor it takes some coaxing to activate; if the paper slides 'out of the sensor's range' it will hang there until another sheet is fed to activate.
one thing i would like added is an auto-detect feeder.
if the envelope is fairly thick, open it and feed a few sheets at a time.
much better than the one he had to feed 2 sheets at a time!
if the paper is crooked it will feed upward, trigger the sensor, and shut off the shredder.
very quiet, size of confetti pieces is smaller than what's advertised, i wish the feeder opening was larger because if you use the max number of pieces of paper and it goes in a little uneven, it
we usually never feed it more than 3 sheets at a time and it always works without a complaint.
dual feeder.
two feeds for paper.
like me, if you're sick of screening each page to tear the corner with the staple off before you feed it in, then this is the shredder for you.
other two died fairly quick and ugly deaths) and we opted for spending more this time, but we got a lot more for our money - it works without jamming or having to "coax" the paper into the feeder.
it also has a metal sensor in the feed slot which when touched, deactivates the machine.
unfortunately i abused it by feeding in stuff that was a bit too much for it.
i bought this shredder to replace a previous fellowes shredder that had stopped feeding.
auto sensing for fingers near the feed slot.
the 9 1/2 inch opening allows us to feed reports printed in tractor feed paper.
my "work-wife", jen, remained in her cube, providing no feedback, but she is like a mercat on mercat manor...pipes up and chatters away when something interesting happens.
jamming is a problem and we don't feel comfortable feeding more than 3-4 sheets in at a time.
what's great about it:?auto feed, high volume what's not so great:?none "great product at a great price.
i had to reverse it to get it to continue to feed.all in all it works pretty good.
what's great about it:?nothing what's not so great:?loud and paper feeds under angle "it is so loud, you can hear from other block, feeding paper is under angle and does not look like its can take
what's great about it:?shreds well and feeds from both directions on top what's not so great:?emptying it is impossible, can't open it to un-jam papers "i bought this shredder because it seemed to
a bit difficult to feed with the safety input area.this would be a great shredder for someone who has a handful of papers per day.
it will get stopped up and stuck if you try to put more than 8 pages into the feeder.
do not feed more than 4 sheets..
just cut down how many pages you feed into the machine to avoid paper jams.
it's most comfortable with a five-sheet maximum feed (it strains a little at eight).
this one is difficult to feed the paper, doesn't shred the papers into pieces as small as the older model, basket is much smaller, and has to be emptied more often, and it is loud.
the motor is so quiet that the main thing you hear while it is doing its job, is the actual sound of the blades pulverizing whatever you are feeding into it.
the light display showing amount of shredder capacity used for each pass has helped us to keep feeding documents at the maximum rate without bogging the machine down.
mult-sheet feeds / cd's / staples - takes them all down.
the "safe sense" technology, which stops the shredder if your fingers get too close to the paper feed, is annoying and pointless.
the feed is a little tough until you get used to it.
the paper feed is tight which requires you to have the paper lined up properly.
bogs down a little when feeding more than 3 or 4 sheets.
i read that a fellow reviewer has even managed to shred cds with his machine--that must be quite a show...the machine includes a reverse button if ever you feed it too much paper, and it jams.
it is very hard to feed the paper.
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