KOBRA 260 TS S5

The KOBRA 260 TS S5 is the fastest and least secure machine in the Touch Screen 260 cabinet. Its 5.8 mm strip knife is coarser than the 3.8 mm head on the S4, which buys it two or three more sheets a pass - up to thirty at 70 gsm - while both models sit at DIN 66399 P-2. Choose it when the paper is genuinely routine and the only thing you are optimising is how quickly a stack disappears.

Key Features

• 5.8 mm strip knife taking 28-30 sheets a pass at 70 gsm - the highest sheet capacity of any 260 TS variant.
• Coarse cut means low load on the head, which is why this model tolerates sustained bulk feeding better than any of its siblings.
• Touch-screen panel for bin, jam and mode status.
• Separate cutting unit with a 123 mm throat and its own bin for CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, chip cards and floppy disks.
• 24-hour continuous-duty motor with automatic reverse on jam.
• Door-open and bin-full interlocks; eight-second energy-saving standby.
• 54-55 dB(A) in a 40 cm-wide cabinet on castors.

Specifications

What's in the Box

Ships assembled on castors with the paper bin and the separate optical-media bin fitted. Waste bags are not included. Keep shredder oil available even on a strip-cut machine - Kobra excludes lubrication-related damage from its warranty terms regardless of cut type.

Who Should Buy This - and Who Should Not

Buy the 260 TS S5 for a mailroom, print room, warehouse office or records purge where the volume is high and the content is not sensitive: catalogues, print overruns, superseded internal documents, packing paperwork. Nothing else in this cabinet clears paper faster.

Do not buy it for anything with a name, an account number or a diagnosis on it. A 5.8 mm strip is wide enough to read directly and P-2 is two full steps below the P-4 that commercial privacy practice expects. The 260 TS C4 AO is the same machine at P-4 with an automatic oiler, and the 260 TS C2 AO reaches P-5. Even within strip cut, the 260.1 S2 at 1.9 mm reaches P-3, which is a meaningful improvement over this. If you routinely shred 11 x 17 inch sheets, note that this 10.25-inch throat will not take them flat.

Ownership and Running Costs

This is the least expensive machine in the range to feed. The coarse knife puts little load on the motor, there is no automatic oiler to refill, and the head tolerates sustained bulk work better than any of its siblings. Waste bags are the real running cost, and you will get through them: 5.8 mm strips trap a great deal of air, so the 80-litre bin reaches its volume limit long before it reaches any sensible weight. Compressing the bag by hand between changes helps more than it ought to.

Kobra publishes different limited warranty terms for standard office models and for high-security models, and the terms have changed between product generations. We confirm the exact warranty in writing on every quote rather than printing a figure here that may not match the unit you receive.