Product Description

The New innovative Fellowes P-57Cs with Patent-Pending Safe Sense 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 and staples. Electronic auto start/stop features ensures quick & easy automatic shredder operation. Shredder is open in front for disposal of non-shredder 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.

Product Details

• Color: BLACK
• Brand: Fellowes
• Model: P-57Cs
• Released on: 2006-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 16.00" h x 12.00" w x 12.00" l, 20.00 pounds

Features

• Reduces documents to 5/32 x 2 inch higher-security confetti particles
• 9-inch wide paper entry shreds up to 8 sheets per pass
• Durable steel cutters shred standard letter and legal-sized documents, credit cards, and staples
• Includes 5-gallon wastebasket
• 3-year limited manufacturer's warranty

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

Very Good Purchase
I did a fair amount of research before purchasing this shredder. The child-safe finger feature was most important to me, as was the durability. After the first few uses the plastic shield inside the shredder which ostensibly guides the shredded paper into the wastecan fell off, but the functioning of the shredder doesn't seem to be affected. Aside from this minor issue, the shredder seems solidly made and has been excellent--it rarely jams and when it does it's easy to clear with the reverse feature. Its recovery time is very reasonable when you're working it hard (take a break yourself, too!). It's not as noisy as my old shredder. It is somewhat messy to empty, however, since the shreds are small, but that's a good thing when you're looking to keep identity theft at bay. I was pleased with how quickly it arrived. I would definitely purchase this shredder again for moderate household use.
UPDATE: Still going strong on June 1, 2009.

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.

Update 1/23: Fellowes will send out a replacement shredder. I'm happy about Fellowes customer service, but I see I can't up the star rating. Thinking about it, since this rating is for the shredder itself, it should probably stay at 2. If this hadn't been advertised as having a capacity of 8, it would be fine--but buyer beware! Don't try to shred more than about 3 sheets at a time.

Update 1/29: The replacement arrived in good condition. Now that I know to stick to 2 sheets--3 at maximum--I think it will serve me fine. But remember--don't even think of putting 8 sheets through this thing. (It's still a pretty decent price for a 3-sheet-capacity machine if you're getting it at the discount--but not worth it if you're paying full list.)

Update 3/2: Still working fine, still shredding only 2 sheets at a time.

Update 2/1/09: Still working fine after a year. I feel comfortable doing 3 at a time, but no more. I wonder how long this'll last?

Great Bang for your buck
I had 7 years of documents/financial statements at home and wanted to get rid of them.
This little fellow did a fine job taking care of that.

A couple of points:

- The sensor was a bit annoying. A lot of the statements are folded and with the sensor on, the machine would stop a few times until I wiggled the doc. So I turned the sensor off.

- It would get hot after a few minutes of constant shredding. The first time I used it, I think I went on 10 minutes of constant shredding. It was running a bit slow, so I decided to put some oil. When I came back with the oil, it wouldn't turn on. I had to wait half an hour for it to cool down and decide to work again.

- I generally shred 2 or 3 pages together. It works perfectly. It has a hard time shredding more than that.

Overall, it's an excellent bang for your buck (if you're just shredding your personal statements). If you own a business and need to shred a lot of documents, I would recommend a more robust one.