The GBC SC032 is a low volume personal shredder that is designed for placing beside your desk for occasional use. In the following review, we will take an in depth look at this shredder and list for you the machine s strengths and weaknesses as we view them.
Strengths
1. One of the SC032 s best features is its small size. The four gallon basket that it comes with will fit almost anywhere. But if you choose, you can also remove the shredding head and place it on your existing wastebasket (from twelve to fourteen and a half inches wide) for even more convenient use.
2. The SC032 gives home and small office users a great solution for getting rid of junk mail and credit card applications. Its capacity of six sheets at a time is pretty nice for such a small machine, and we found that it dealt with paper clips and staples with ease. It s kind of nice not to have to take them out before shredding, as you would with a lot of smaller machines like this one.
3. We liked how the SC032 can be set to shred automatically when paper is placed into the feed. It s nice not to have to turn the machine on and off every time we want to use it. There is also a manual setting for forward, and a reverse mode for helping to deal with paper jams.
Weaknesses:
1. The paper feed on the SC032 is fairly narrow, at eight and five eighths inches wide. This is fine, of course, for letter sized paper, but for anything larger, such as legal sized paper, you will be required to cut, tear or fold the sheet first before inserting it into the machine. The small throat also means it is very important to feed sheets into the shredder squarely, as a crooked feed can easily lead to paper jams.
2. It is also important to understand that the SC032 is a low volume shredder. It is designed for use in a small office or for home use. It is rated for two hundred fifty pages a day, but it you will likely run into problems with overheating if you attempt to use this machine for more than about two minutes at a time. If you do, the shredder will turn itself off and will require a resting period of about thirty minutes before it can be used again. This is not a huge problem, just something you should be aware of.
3. The SC032 is a strip cut shredder, and thus offers the lowest security shredding. If you are going to need to shred documents that you consider confidential or private on a regular basis, you will likely want to look into purchasing a machine with cross cutting capabilities.
4. At a speed of ten linear feet per minute, the SC032 is on the slower end of this type of shredder. This translates to about six seconds per pass. That kind of speed is fine for shredding just a few sheets a day, but if you let your shred pile stack up, you will have a slow go of it.
Author Resource:
Jeff McRitchie is the designer and Director of Marketing for http://www.mybinding.com .He has written over 500 articles on binding machines,binding covers,binders,laminators,binding supplies,laminating supplies,paper handling equipments,index tabs, and shredders.
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