intimus 100 CP4 3.8x36 mm, 120 V/60 Hz w/oiler package

The intimus 100 CP4 is the entry point into intimus's German-built commercial cross-cut range, and it is the model to choose when a department needs genuine P-4 destruction but does not need the larger bins of the 120 or 130. It is a 44 kg cabinet machine on castors with a 310 mm throat, a 100-litre waste bin and a 25-sheet cutting head. This SKU (224254P1) is the version supplied with the intimus automatic oiler package, which is the one distinction that matters between it and the plain 224154: lubrication of the cutting cylinders stops being something a person has to remember.

That is not a cosmetic upgrade. intimus makes lubrication a written condition of warranty coverage, and the same policy grants a lifetime limited warranty against cutting-cylinder fracture on commercial models. An automatic oiler moves the most commonly skipped maintenance task on a cross-cut shredder off the office to-do list.

Key Features

• Supplied with the automatic oiler package — the cutting cylinders are lubricated as part of normal operation rather than by a person with an oil bottle. On a shared machine where no single user owns maintenance, this is the difference between a warranty that holds and one that does not.
• 3.8 x 36 mm cross-cut head — 136.8 mm² particles, comfortably inside the 160 mm² ceiling DIN 66399 sets for P-4, so shredded output satisfies the level most organisations apply to routine personal and commercial data.
• 310 mm (12.2 in) throat — takes US Letter fed either portrait or landscape, and takes A4 without folding. Legal (8.5 x 14 in) and tabloid feed lengthwise only.
• 100-litre bin in a sealed cabinet on castors — the cabinet damps cutter noise and the castors let one person reposition the machine without a trolley.
• i-Control smart switch with automatic start/stop — the shredder wakes on paper detection and drops back to sleep on its own, so it is not drawing standby current all afternoon.
• Dynamic load sensor — a front indicator shows how much of the cutting head's capacity the current stack is using, which is the practical way to stop users from over-feeding.
• Automatic reverse — backs the cutters out of a jam without the operator having to reach into the throat.
• Handles staples, paper clips, optical media and plastic cards — media are rated for intermittent use, not continuous batches.
• 56 dB(A) at idle — quiet enough to live in an open-plan bay rather than a separate machine room.

Specifications

What's in the Box

The shredder ships assembled as a single cabinet unit on castors with its pull-out bin. intimus does not publish a component-level packing list for this SKU, so we will not invent one. Two things worth planning for: waste bags are a separate consumable and are not included in the base price, and cross-cut cutting cylinders must be lubricated in line with the operator's manual — intimus's warranty policy states in plain terms that failing to do so can void the warranty.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

The 100 CP4 suits a workgroup of roughly five to fifteen people producing a steady but not relentless stream of confidential paper: an HR office, a clinic front desk, a finance team, a branch office. Twenty-five sheets a pass at P-4 is the sweet spot where the machine is fast enough that people actually use it instead of stockpiling paper in a drawer.

Do not buy it if your real constraint is emptying frequency. The 100-litre bin is the smallest in the family; if your team is filling a bin more than once a day, the intimus 120 CP4 (120 litres) or the intimus 130 CP4 (135 litres) gives you the same cutting head and the same 25-sheet capacity in a taller cabinet, and you will spend less time carrying bags. Do not buy it if your retention policy or your client contracts specify P-5 or above — the 100 chassis is only offered as a CP4 here, and you would need the intimus 120 CP5 (1.9 x 15 mm) or the intimus 120 CP7 instead. And do not buy it as a shared floor-wide machine for fifty people; at that scale the duty cycle and bin size both become the bottleneck and a large-office or industrial machine is the honest answer.

Specifications above are taken from the intimus per-model datasheet and the intimus North America warranty policy. Where a figure is not published by intimus we have left the row out rather than estimate it.