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Smart WFH office products make working from home more efficient, seamless and productive. It goes without saying for most working from home, often space is more confined in these environments and are more sensitive to noise.

With so many of us now working at times from home, when adding or replacing office machines in your WFH office, choosing quiet and efficient office devices such as printers and paper shredders is another consideration to investigate.

Automating tasks where possible adds efficiency to the WHF office and in terms of shredding paper, automatic feeding shredders make it easy to acheive this objective.

When is comes to chooing a suitable WFH paper shredder, thinking about size and where the shredder is to be positioned will clarify if

All About Noise From Paper Shredders

The best sounding paper shredder is a quiet paper shredder!

Among the quietest paper shredders available today are the automatic feeding variety and thats important as they operate for longer periods while automatically shredding through stacks of paper.

Professional shredder brands of auto feeding paper shredders use quiet AC induction and special DC motors. Whilst its more expensive to manufacture a quiet shredder, these professional machines are more likely to be used when and as needed without any concern of distracting others in the office due to particuarly low noise levels. Automatic paper shredders with enclosed loading trays and closing lids also

Tips to Make Your Automatic Feeding Paper Shredder Work Better

Over time without recommended user maintenance, the performance of a paper shredder can decline if ignored. Similar to poor print quality by not replacing toner in a printer, without simple user maintenance, a shredders hand feed sheet capacity or ability to auto feed paper can decline.

The best resource to learn about your shredders user maintenance is by reading the operation manual which often can be downloaded from the manufacturers website.

Based on common user feedback and available data, here are some corrective actions user manuals will often outline.

Low Hand Feeding Sheet Capacity
If the sheet capacity is lower than normal, the manual will usally recommend oiling the shredders blades using recommended oil sheets or bottled

INFOSTOP Oil Sheets are an affordable, convenient and mess free way to lubricate your paper shedders blades.

Super easy to use, simply feed one oil sheet via the manual feed entry of A4 shredders or two or more sheets side by side for A3 shredders and those with even wider feed entries.
INFOSTOP Oil Sheets evenly coat the baldes and prevent oil from contaminating paper sensors and rubber auto feed belts and rollers.

The perfect oiling solution for most cross cut paper shredders which takes the guesswork out of how much oil to apply.
Conveniently packaged in A5 size bundles of 6 sheets, they can be

For INFOSTOP automaster and REXEL Auto+ and REXEL Optimum variants, the user manual remommends applying one oil sheet per every 3 bin empties.
The above shredder brands reccomend oil sheets are applied via the manual feed entry (not in the automatic feed), it's just like manually feeding paper.

Due to the mess free nature and convenient application when using oil sheets, these have been widely embraced having become the prefered way to oil a shredders blades.

Oil sheets are highly recommended for oiling friction fed auto feed shredders which use rubber belts or rollers to draw the paper in. The oil sheet acts as a barrier
during application by protecting rubber components from the contamination of oil.

Shredder brands that adopt a friction feed design using rubber components include INFOSTOP Rexel Dahle

Maintain your paperless digital office and archive confidence.

Going paperless can be a real game-changer for efficiency, organisation, and sustainability. Staying paperless requires process driven discipline to achieve the paperless objective and fortunately there are ways to streamline the process.

Here's how you can confidently transition to a paperless office:

1: Set Clear Goals: Define why you want to go paperless. Whether it's reducing clutter, saving time, or being environmentally friendly, having clear goals will keep you motivated.

2: Choose the Right Tools: Invest in reliable digital tools such as document management software, cloud storage, and note-taking apps. Ensure they meet your specific needs and are user-friendly.

3: Digitize Your Documents: Scan and digitise your paper documents using a scanner or mobile scanning app. Organize them into folders and store them securely in the cloud or on your computer.

4: Establish a Naming

The uptake of cardboard shredder use in Australia is steadily increasing, whats the driving force behind the increasing popularity of these machines.

Why
Nowdays there is increasing focus on sustainability in business. For businesses shipping products, solutions to reduce the use of plastic packaging is constantly being researched in order to reduce environmental impact.

Who
A vast range of businesses and industry sectors large an small have purchased Cardboard Shredders to become more sustainable

Going paperless can be a real game-changer for efficiency, organisation, and sustainability. Staying paperless requires process-driven discipline to achieve the paperless objective and fortunately, there are ways to streamline the process.

Here's how you can confidently transition to a paperless office:

1. Set Clear Goals
   Define why you want to go paperless. Whether it's reducing clutter, saving time, or being environmentally friendly, having clear goals will keep you motivated.
2. Choose the Right Tools
   Invest in reliable digital tools such as document management software, cloud storage, and note-taking apps. Ensure they meet your specific needs and are user-friendly.
3. Digitize Your Documents
   Scan and digitise your paper documents using a scanner or mobile scanning app. Organize them into folders and store them securely in the cloud or on your computer.
4. Establish a Naming Convention

Paper, it’s everywhere and has been for thousands of years. Paper is the print media information carrier of choice and for many good reasons. Being surrounded with so much paper-based information, over time this builds up and is rarely accessed, eventually wasting valuable space in the office.

Commonly stored records kept over long periods have relevance, hence why they are retained.

Rome wasn’t built in a day and nor should the task of digitising stored records be. Digitising paper-based information involves carefully checking the relevance of the information, scanning & saving chosen digital copies then destroying the paper once successfully scanned. This process can be outsourced but for many, the preference is to take control of this work in house, being familiar with the documents information and knowing what to scan and what not to.

A key key process to keeping the office paperless is to scan then shred these stacks of documents on an ongoing basis. Shredding

Is your paper shredder too small with papers piling up, becoming an overwhelming task to shred through your machine?

Do you think shredding your private documents is being put off or even ignored at your office?

It goes without saying, having the right equipment for your requirements only makes it easier to complete the task at hand and in the case of shredding your documents, helps maintain the Paperless Office.