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Average customer review:

The innovative Fellowes P-57Cs with SafeSense Technology is ideal for use in the home or home office. Exclusive SafeSense Technology stops shredder immediately when hands are too close to the paper opening. Shreds up to 8 sheets per pass into 5/32 x 2-inch confetti particles as fast as 85 sheets per minute. Equipped with a 9-inch paper entry, the P-57Cs easily accepts letter or legal size documents, and features durable steel cutters that accept credit cards and staples. Pivoting head with handle allows quick, easy waste removal from the 5-gallon wastebasket. Auto start/stop function ensures quick, easy shredder operation. Sheet capacity gauge helps prevent paper jams, while the reverse function easily removes over-fed paper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Fellowes
• Model: P-57Cs
• Released on: 2006-10-01
• Dimensions: 11.30″ h x 15.30″ w x 11.80″ l, 18.00 pounds

Features

• SafeSense sensor stops shredding the instant paper is touched
• Can process credit cards and staples
• Shreds up to 8 sheets per pass, at a rate of 11 feet per minute
• 9″ paper entry width; 5-gallon basket
• Creates confetti shreds; includes three-year warranty on cutter

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The innovative Fellowes P-57Cs with patent-pending SafeSense technology features an active sensor that stops shredding immediately when paper entry is touched. Designed for light duty shredding in the home or home office, the Fellowes Powershred P-57Cs reduces documents to 5/32″ x 2″ higher-security confetti particles, and shreds up to 8 sheets per pass, 10-20 times per day, for a total daily capacity as high as 160 sheets.

Equipped with a 9″ wide paper entry, the P-57Cs easily accepts standard letter or legal size documents. The durable steel cutters also accept credit cards and staples. Electronic auto start/stop features ensures quick& easy automatic shredder operation. Shredder is open in front for disposal of non-shredded waste as well as allowing the user to see when 5-gallon wastebasket is full. The P-57Cs also has a pivoting head with a handle that makes waste removal quick and easy. Sheet capacity gauge helps prevent paper jams, while the reverse function easily removes paper jams. Fellowes provides a three-year warranty on the cutter.

What’s in the Box:
Wastebasket, machine with power cord, user’s guide, warranty card

Customer Reviews

It shreds
it works.

shreds you average daily delivery of junk mail quite nicely.

the sensor is a nice feature.

the top is a pain in the rear to remove from the bucket… which blows given the piddly micro-safety switch they buried in there.

otherwise, it’s OK. runs on 110/120V and not a plug in transformer, so it pulls some current.

nice soft start and soft slow down (makes sure it shreds to the very end).

like it.

Jammed a few weeks in on far less than 8 sheets
While it was working, I loved it, but my new shredder just jammed on perhaps three sheets, and though I got the paper out, shredded bits are stuck between the blades. I got some of them out with scissors and a knife (yes, I’d unplugged it first), but still…the motor’s jammed, and nothing’s going in or out.

Contacted Fellowes CS today; if there’s a good outcome, I may up the star rating on this product.

Totally rocking!
I bought a lower-end for my home. But then bought this one for my parents. It is heads-and-tails better. Nicely built. Sensor safety feature. Great buy. Will prolly last forever too.

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