GBC Momentum Paper Shredder, X20-07, Super Cross-Cut, P-4, Anti-Jam, 20 Sheets

The Momentum X20-07 is the deskside member of ACCO's Momentum line, and it is an unusual machine: it takes twenty sheets a pass and runs for four hours, on a cabinet small enough to stand beside a desk with a 7-gallon bin.

That combination is the reason to buy it. Most shredders with a 7-gallon bin are personal machines rated for six or eight sheets and a few minutes of running. The X20-07 has a commercial-grade duty cycle in a personal-sized body. The trade-off is the bin: at twenty sheets a pass you will fill seven gallons quickly, and this machine is designed to be emptied often rather than left alone.

Key Features

• 240-minute duty cycle. Four hours of running from a deskside cabinet, which is what separates this from an ordinary personal shredder.
• Twenty sheets per pass on 20 lb paper at DIN 66399 P-4.
• Super cross-cut head at approximately 5/32 x 1 3/8 in (about 4 x 35 mm, roughly 138 mm²), inside the 160 mm² the P-4 class permits.
• Active Sensing Anti-Jam Technology, which reads the stack as it enters and blocks an overload before the cutters engage.
• Nine-inch throat for letter, legal and A4 fed flat.
• Seven-gallon bin in a cabinet 23 inches tall and 12.6 inches wide.
• Auto sleep mode to cut standby draw.
• TAA compliant, 37.5 lb, two-year warranty.

Read the materials list carefully if you are comparing this against its larger siblings. ACCO rates the X20-07 for paper, paper clips, staples and unopened junk mail, but does not list credit cards or CDs against this model, where it does list both for the X18-12, X22-23 and X26-32. That is a real difference and not an omission on our part — if expired cards and old discs are part of what you need destroyed, this is the wrong model in the range.

Specifications

ACCO does not publish a decibel rating or a motor wattage for any Momentum model, describing the range only as ultra-quiet, so those rows are omitted rather than filled with an unsourced number. Sheet capacity is quoted on 20 lb paper, which is ACCO's stated basis for this range.

What's in the Box

Shredder with 7-gallon pull-out bin, power cord and operating instructions. Bags are separate: ACCO's 6-8 gallon plastic shredder bag, part 1765016, names the Momentum X20-07 on its compatibility list. Shredder oil is part 1760049.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Buy the X20-07 for one person or a small shared corner where the paper is ordinary business correspondence and the machine will be used in bursts through the day. The four-hour duty cycle means it will not stop on you mid-session, and twenty sheets a pass means nobody feeds it a page at a time. For a solicitor's room, an accounts desk or a practice office, it is well matched.

Do not buy it if the bin will be the problem. Seven gallons of cross-cut waste is roughly 150 to 250 sheets, and a machine capable of twenty sheets a pass can fill that in a few minutes of concentrated work; the X18-12 carries 12 gallons and the X22-23 carries 23. Do not buy it if you need to destroy cards or optical media — ACCO does not rate this model for either, though its larger siblings are rated for both. And if a policy names P-5, the M12-12 is the smallest micro-cut machine in the range.