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08 26th, 2011| 
An Advertising Feature
Years ago paper was shredded simply by cutting it with scissors. As time went by, technology improved considerably and electric shredders were designed to cut paper in all kinds of shapes and sizes.
Businesses and homes use shredders to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive documents. An office shredder is a very effective way of preventing fraud or identity theft. In general terms, the rule is: the smaller the cut, the higher the level of security.
These are the most common types of paper shredder popularly used today:
Multi-scissors: Multi-scissors have the shape and structure of any other scissor, but instead of having one blade they can have up to four or five blades. Nice paper ribbons can be created from this original item.
Strip-cut shredders: Strip-cut shredders produce long strips of a preset width. The most common are 1/8 and 1/4 inch. This is, however, the least secure system – along with the multi-scissors. These types of shredders therefore may not be exactly what you are looking for to complete your full office shredding needs.
Cross-cut (or confetti-cut) shredders: this type uses two contra-rotating drums to cut rectangular, parallelogram, or diamond-shaped shreds. Cross cut paper shredders offer increased security because the shred is much smaller. Its main disadvantage is that they don’t shred as many sheets at the same time.
This shredder type is rapidly becoming the shredder of preference for business use, in spite of being more expensive.
Micro Cut shredders: this is a variation of the cross-cut that uses a shred size that is much, much smaller; it literally turns paper into dust! The best advantage is that this type offers the highest level of security. There is very little way that anyone rooting through bins would be able to piece back together documents shredded by a micro cut shredders.
Super high security
The highest levels of security include shredders that are capable of turning a single sheet of paper into a minimum of 12,064.5 particles.
Although you may think that nobody really needs to destroy paper to that point, you will be surprised to know that even these types of shredders have a use. Top secret documents from government and the military are often destroyed by using these kinds of machines.
Even if you do not need to turn your documents into dust, many security experts recommend acquiring a paper shredder in order to protect highly confidential letters, bills or documents.
