The smaller bin and short duty cycle (a barely acceptable 5 minutes) aren’t deal-breakers (in fact, the compact bin makes this shredder the easiest to empty), but the manual feed slot’s measly capacity remains this shredder’s Achilles’ heel. That feed slot (which features a special conduit just for credit cards) is also difficult to work with, thanks to its narrow opening and somewhat odd alignment. That’s unfortunately easy to do with even a smaller junk mailer, which means you’ll likely have to open envelopes and shred their contents piecemeal, a huge waste of time. If you’re not using the autofeed tray, the additional manual feed slot can handle only six sheets of paper at a time, and it chokes easily if you try to push past that level. Otherwise, Swingline’s 100X is a relatively simple, quiet shredder that’s best reserved for light use. Load 100 sheets into the Swingline Stack-and-Shred’s autofeed tray and it does the rest. The unit includes a dust cover and has a handy compartment built into the top of the shredder for storing odds and ends. The GoECOlife GXC205Pi’s unique front feeder lets you shred without leaving your seat. While it’s a hulking device (the largest in this roundup), casters make it easy to maneuver. It sounds like a small thing, but in many environments this will free up some space by letting you keep the shredder under your desk instead of next to it. To feed the beast, you slide papers into the shredder in a direction parallel to the ground, instead of pushing them into the machine from the top. A handy front LCD gives you status updates, a rare feature for shredders, and the 20 minutes of continuous run time should be plenty for most operations.Īnother noteworthy aspect is its feeding slot, located on the side of the device instead of the usual vertical slot on top. I was rarely able to jam the shredder, even with thick junk-mail envelopes and misfed sheets (and it took far more than 20 sheets of paper to create a jam). The GoECOlife GXC205Pi sets the pace for destructive potential. While surprisingly quiet, it plows through just about anything without complaint, including CDs and credit cards, and up to 20 sheets of paper per pass.
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