Rexel Optimum Auto Feed+ 50 Sheet Automatic Cross Cut Paper Shredder, P-4 Security, Home/Home Office, 20 Litre Removable Bin, 2020050X, Black

I had over 20 years of paper for a small business to take care of with this and man did it make the job easier. Pop in the pages and let it run! So great. Not having to individually load each page is great. Highly recommend. Runs pretty quick! Great shredder. Good value for money. The noise level is around the same as an average shredder. It’s is so functional and can shred loads of different paper types well. It’s a nice size for a small office. Around the size of 3 cereal boxes together!

Great machine and does its job well. Noise level is great. The draw is great for emptying but the back of draw is lower than front and gap between back of machine and draw. You end up with a bunch of shredded paper stuck at back of machine which makes a mess but stops draw from going back in. So when emptying or opening draw to push pile of paper build up in center you can't put draw back in and have to Hoover inside of machine every time. Design fault for sure. Another frustration is if using in home office or bedroom office as my desk is, you have to switch off at wall as blue light blinks very bright even if you turn machine off with off button. Besides those faults it does its job well besides being messy.

Performs as expected

I purchased what I thought was a decent paper shredder, but I wish I hadn't bothered. It is a very poor design and I definitely wouldn't recommend it. I can honestly say, I wouldn't even buy it at half the cost.Feeding the paper through the top is fine, but putting a stack of paper inside is a challenge in itself. If the paper has been removed from an A5 envelope it will have a crease in the middle and if you load the paper with the crease going down, the machine eats too much and the paper jams.The basket needs emptying far too frequently and not because it is full. It is less than half full but the shredded paper has gathered directly under the paper cutters, like a mountain. The basket itself is not just a pull out drawer, it is positioned underneath the main unit which needs lifting off everytime to empty and is extremely bulky and heavy. The paper sticks to the underside of the cutters and when lifted up goes everywhere.

Great machine. very well made. A larger waste paper basket would have been an improvement.

We’ve been using ours for several months, mainly to deal with the personal effects of a serious “hoarder”. It is small enough to be stored easily and transported to where it is needed, but big enough to shred several loads of paper quickly. The feeder means you can load it and get on with something else while it does the shredding, then empty it, then run it again. I’ve used a similar one from a different manufacturer where the blades became badly clogged, but this one doesn’t suffer from that at all. When it eventually stops to avoid overheating, it’s best to leave it a while to fully cool down. Otherwise the gaps between stops seem to get progressively shorter. We use oil sachets to keep it lubricated, and they seem to clear out any remaining scraps of paper in the cutters. To empty it, you lift the entire shredder off the bin. Some reviews say it is heavy to lift, but we’ve found putting it on a kitchen worktop means it is just the right hight to make it easy to lift the shredder off the bin. Very pleased with it.

This machine is great quiet but I wish he had a bigger container underneath for ever having to empty it and it’s half full. It’s quite does the job but container needs to be bigger, can you buy a larger container?

Glad I got a shredder with an autofeed option. I also got the sharpening/oiling papers which are very necessary but I have certainly shifted some paper since I bought it. A little bit of care and it just keeps going.