Office Zone Adds New Paper Shredder Guide to Its Web Site
Office Zone has just added a new paper shredder guide to its site designed to help people determine which paper shredder best meets their needs.
Kaysville, Utah (Issues Wire / PRWEB) June 22, 2007 -- Office Zone wants people to understand that not all shredders are the same. In an effort to combat the confusion that surrounds the various makes and models of paper shredders, Office Zone has added a new paper shredder guide to its site. This guide includes descriptions on the different styles of shredders and what type of shred style best suits various needs. This new shredder guide can be found here: http://www.officezone.com/shredder_guide.htm?NR.
There are two very important things to be aware of before purchasing a shredder. There are strip-cut shredders and cross cut shredders. These two styles of paper shredders are fundamentally different.
Strip cut shredders cut paper into thin ¼-inch or 1/8-inch strips of paper. This form of shredding was initially all that was available to the public just over a decade ago. Although documents are shredded, it was discovered that these strips of paper could be easily re-assembled by a determined thief. In 1979, when the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun by militants, Persian basket weavers were used to re-assemble strip cut documents containing sensitive information.
Cross cut shredders, sometimes referred to as confetti or particle cut shredders, cut paper from more than one angle. This makes it more difficult to re-assemble documents. It is now recommended that bills, receipts and other documents containing sensitive information be cross cut. One thing that many people do not realize is that cross cut shredders are available in different security levels, depending on the size of the cross-cut particles.
These security levels vary from 1, which is a 3/8-inch strip cut document and the least secure, to 6, which is almost dust and is used for high-security shredding. These security levels are based on the DIN 32757 shredding standard, which has been adopted by the shredding industry. DIN is an abbreviation for the German Institute for Standardization (Deutsches Institut für Normung).
Security level 6, which hasn't been officially adopted by DIN 32757, is approved by the NSA (National Security Agency) for top-secret shredding. You can find a detailed list of specifications for the different shredding security levels by going here: http://www.officezone.com/shredder_guide.htm#security?NR.
Office Zone, a leading supplier of paper shredders over the Internet, offers a wide variety of paper shredders for all shredding applications (www.officezone.com/shred1.htm?NR). Shredders vary from desk side models to high-end industrial shredders and CD destroyers.
For further information, please contact David Stuart, Marketing Supervisor of Office Zone, 1-800-543-5454
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