Ever wondered how the high speed paper
shredder you saw in your office worked?
Or the industrial paper shredders at your
factory? Ever marveled at its ability to
take in large volumes of paper, oceans of
information and effortlessly turn it into
meaningless bits and pieces of paper scrap
which have lost all ability to convey any
information. And that these bits and pieces
of paper scrap are what guarantees the security
of your precious information, ensuring it
doesn't fall into the wrong hands and cause
irrevocable damage. So how do these paper
shredders really work? What keeps them going?
Papers shredders are typically manufactured
in two standard configurations depending
on the mechanical operation with which they
cut the documents. The first type of paper
shredder is the strip cut paper shredder
and like the name suggests it reduces input
paper into strips of finely cut paper. A
single sheet of paper fed into the average
sized paper shredder will be decimated into
probably 15-20 strips of cut paper. This
type of paper shredders have a series of
parallel serrated blades mounted on a steel
frame and cut the paper sequentially in
a periodic motion as the paper moves on
the rollers inside the paper shredder. Several
industrial paper shredders manufacturers
employ this type of shredding for their
high speed high volume throughput paper
shredders.
The second type of paper shredder is the
cross cut paper shredder which has a different
mechanism of shredding the document as compared
to the strip cut paper shredder. In this
the blades cross each other in a synchronized
motion so the cuts of the paper happen cross
to each other and not in parallel strips
as the former case. A mechanical or electric
timer inside the machine ensures that as
the blades cross each other, the paper moves
at the same speed so that the pieces of
shredded paper are equal in size and tough
to be reconstructed from. High end industrial
paper shredders which have automatic feed
rates and programmable shredding parameters
might feature the cross cut paper shredding
technique for effective and secure document
shredding.
Typically if you have an effective post
shredding procedure for destroying the shredded
paper, then the security that the strip
cut paper shredder offers you should be
convenient and satisfy your requirements.
On the other hand if you need to personally
ensure that the document shredding process
has been completely executed without compromising
document security and if your volumes of
paper shredding required are only moderate,
then you might want to adopt the cross cut
paper shredder.
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