HSM SECURIO P40i 3/16 x 1 1/8 Cross Cut Document Shredder - HSM1883

Most departments that shred personal data end up on a P-4 machine, and within HSM's P40i chassis this 4.5 x 30 mm version is that machine. Each sheet is reduced to particles of about 135 mm2, comfortably inside the 160 mm2 ceiling DIN 66399 sets for P-4, and it still accepts 34 to 36 sheets of 80 g/m2 paper at a time. That combination is why it outsells every other P40i variant: it is the point where the security rating stops being an argument with your compliance officer and the throughput is still high enough that nobody avoids the machine.

Key Features

• P-4 cross cut at departmental speed. 34 to 36 sheets per pass is unusually high for a P-4 machine of this footprint. Compliance and convenience rarely coexist this well.
• Handles mixed office waste. Staples, paper clips, credit and EC cards, CDs, DVDs and floppy disks all go through the paper head, so users do not have to sort waste before shredding.
• 330 mm intake. Letter, legal, tabloid, A4 and A3 all feed short edge without folding.
• IntelligentDrive, three operating modes. You can tune the machine towards throughput, low noise or low energy consumption rather than accepting one fixed behaviour.
• Automatic paper-jam prevention. The control system detects an over-thick stack as it enters and reacts before the rollers stall, instead of leaving a user to reverse a jam by hand.
• Integrated automatic oiler. Roller lubrication is handled by the machine; you refill it rather than schedule it.
• 145 litre container. 38.3 gallons of capacity means far fewer interruptions than the wastebasket-sized bins on desk-side shredders.
• Lifetime cutting-roller warranty. P-4 sits inside HSM's lifetime roller cover, alongside the 3-year machine warranty.

Specifications

Sheet capacities are HSM's per-model figures at 80 g/m2 A4. HSM's range brochure quotes capacity at 70 g/m2, which reads roughly 15 percent higher, so figures quoted elsewhere may not match.

What's in the Box

Supplied as a complete floor-standing machine with the 145 litre container and the factory-fitted automatic oiler. Collection bags and cardboard disposal boxes are not supplied with the shredder; the reusable collecting bag and the P36i/P40i cardboard box are ordered as consumables, as is the HSM cutting block special oil used to top up the oiler.

Who Should Buy This - and Who Should Not

Buy it if you shred customer files, HR paperwork, invoices, patient correspondence or anything else with names attached, and you want one machine the whole floor can use without a sorting rule. P-4 satisfies most written destruction policies and 34 to 36 sheets keeps queues short.

Do not buy it if your policy specifies P-5 or higher, or if the material is commercially sensitive enough that 4.5 x 30 mm particles feel generous. The SECURIO P44i 1.9 x 15 mm (HSM1872) gives you P-5 on a larger chassis with a 400 mm throat, and the P40i 0.78 x 11 mm (HSM1885) gives you P-6 in this same footprint, at the cost of dropping to 13 to 15 sheets. If optical media destruction needs its own defensible class, the 4.5 x 30 mm version with the separate 4 x 7 mm CD cutting unit is the same machine with a second head bolted on.