Kobra 260 HS

The KOBRA 260 HS is a floor-standing high-security shredder that reduces a sheet of letter or A4 paper to particles measuring 0.8 x 9.5 mm - a DIN 66399 / ISO 21964 P-6 result from a machine sized for a single office rather than a shred room. What separates it from the rest of the 260 family is that it buys security with throughput: the same 10.25-inch throat that swallows 28 sheets on a strip-cut 260 takes six to eight here, because the cutting head is producing well over a hundred times more particles per page.

Key Features

• P-6 cutting head producing 0.8 x 9.5 mm particles - fine enough for personnel files, financial records and commercially sensitive drawings, and far beyond what a standard cross-cut office machine achieves.
• Chain drive running on steel gears with carbon-hardened knives, rated by Kobra for 24-hour continuous duty. There is no cool-down timer to work around during a large purge.
• Automatic start/stop on electronic paper sensing, and automatic reverse when the head detects a jam.
• Energy-saving standby that drops the machine to near-zero draw after a short idle period, which matters on a machine intended to be left switched on all day.
• Safety interlock stops the cutters if the cabinet door is opened or the bin reaches full.
• Compact 43 cm-wide cabinet on castors - it fits beside a desk, unlike most machines that cut this fine.
• Accepts credit cards, chip cards and films as well as paper.

Specifications

What's in the Box

The machine ships assembled on its castored cabinet with the waste bin fitted. Kobra sells an Accu-Flow automatic oiling kit as an option for this model; it is not fitted as standard. Cutting-head oil and disposable waste bags are consumables and are not included - order them with the machine if you do not already stock them. A P-6 head must be oiled on schedule, so budget for oil from day one.

Who Should Buy This - and Who Should Not

Buy the 260 HS if one or two people handle genuinely sensitive paper in modest daily volumes and you need P-6 rather than the P-4 that most office machines deliver. It is the smallest and lightest way into Kobra P-6.

Do not buy it if a department is queueing at it. Six to eight sheets per pass with a 17 ft/min feed makes clearing a bankers box a genuinely slow afternoon; the KOBRA 260 HS-2 uses a P-6 high-security head on a 1 1/2 HP chassis and roughly thirteen sheets per pass and is the correct answer for shared use. If your policy requires NSA/CSS 02-01 destruction, this model does not qualify and is not on the NSA Evaluated Products List - step up to the KOBRA 260 HS-6, which is listed. And if P-4 satisfies your retention policy, the 260 TS C4 will shred three times as fast for less money.

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.