HSM SECURIO P36i 1/4 Inch Strip Cut Document Shredder - HSM1851

Of every machine in the P36i family, this is the one that eats paper fastest: 43 to 45 sheets in a single pass at 80 g/m². It gets there with a wide 5.8 mm strip, which is why it stops at security level P-2. The 5.8 mm head is the only thing that differs from the 3.9 mm version — same cabinet, same 145-litre bin, same 1,000 W motor, nine more sheets per bite.

Key Features

• Highest sheet capacity in the P36i line at 43–45 sheets per pass, which makes short work of archive purges.
• 330 mm throat takes letter, legal, A4, A3 and 11 x 17 in tabloid without folding.
• 145-litre bin holding roughly 954 sheets of shredded strips before it needs emptying.
• EcoSmart standby draws 0.1 W, so leaving it switched on at the wall costs essentially nothing.
• Automatic paper-jam prevention reverses an over-thick feed instead of stalling the motor.
• Lifetime warranty on the induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers, which are rated to run through staples and paper clips.
• Roughly 55 dB(A) at idle — quiet enough to sit in a shared work area.
• Wheeled cabinet on a 580 x 550 mm footprint — it occupies about the same floor area as a two-drawer filing cabinet and rolls out of the way when it is not in use.
• Reusable collection insert rather than disposable sacks, which removes a recurring consumable from the running cost.

Specifications

What's in the Box

The shredder arrives fully assembled on its wheeled cabinet with the reusable collection insert already fitted in the 145-litre bin, plus the mains lead and operating manual. Disposable plastic shredder sacks are not included, and the P36i is not designed around them — HSM's bin uses a reusable corrugated insert, sold separately as a replacement under part HSM1850BOX (it also fits the P40i and the 940 series).

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

This is the right machine for a records room or mailroom clearing bulk non-sensitive paper: invoices past retention, marketing overruns, old print stock. At 43–45 sheets a pass it will clear a banker's box far quicker than any cross-cut machine in the same cabinet.

It is the wrong machine if the paper contains names, account numbers or health information. A 5.8 mm strip is legible in fragments and P-2 is the second-lowest class in ISO/IEC 21964. For personal data choose the P36i 4.5 x 30 mm (1853121) at P-4, or the P40i 1.9 x 15 mm (1882121) at P-5 if your policy calls for micro-cut. If you want a finer strip but still only need P-2, the 3.9 mm P36i (1850121) trades nine sheets per pass for a narrower cut.

On placement: at 64 kg it is stable enough to sit against a wall in a corridor or copy room, and the 55 dB(A) idle figure means it does not need a separate room. Leave clearance at the front for the door to swing open, because the bin is removed forwards rather than lifted out from above. Power is a standard socket — the machine accepts 100 to 240 V at 50 to 60 Hz, so it does not need a dedicated supply.