Aurora C1210 12-Sheet Professional Crosscut Paper Shredder (Black)

by Aurora

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 12.5 x 18.1 inches ; 18 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 18.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0015A671A
• Item model number: C1210
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2007

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The Aurora C1210 12-Sheet Professional Crosscut Paper Shredder is easy to use, simple to store, and powerful enough for tough jobs, such as shredding CDs or credit cards. This shredder utilizes a medium-duty crosscut cutting type to ensure that your private data is completely destroyed. And with a 12-sheet shred capacity that shreds at a speed of 7.2-feet per minute, your private information will be destroyed quickly and efficiently.

The Aurora C1210 paper shredder offers: 12-sheet shredding power (20-pound paper) at a rate of 7.2-feet per minute. Ability to shred staples, paper clips, and individual credit cards and CDs. Handy, collapsible, pull-out mesh wastebasket. LED indicators for Power, Overload, and Basket Full.

The powerful Aurora C1210 shredder comes equipped with a collapsible mesh wastebasket. View larger. View set up.

Collapsible Basket for Easy Storage
The faster you shred your personal and professional information, the happier you will be. When you're ready to shred, setting up the C1210 is a breeze. All you have to do is lift up the basket frame, push the posts into position, attach the shredder to the basket, and you're ready to dispose of your private information.

Plenty of Features and Ample Shredding Power
The C1210 features stylish, glossy finish that compliments any desk or office space, and the slide-out, 4.28-gallon mesh wastebasket easily stores 280 sheets of shredded material. Feed up to 12 20-pound sheets at a time (single CDs or credit cards), and don't worry about removing paper clips or staplers -- the C1210 is powerful enough to tear right through them, too. And if you become overzealous and feed too much into your shredder, don't fret--the C1210 has a manual reverse feature that clears the paper jams in a snap.

Aurora has designed the C1210 with overload and thermal protection so you don't destroy the shredder's mechanisms. The auto-start feature fires up the shredder as soon as you insert a sheet, and the simple LED on top of the C1210 indicates power, basket full, and overload. And for added safety, the shredder features an angled paper slot so you'll never nick a finger.

About Aurora Corporation of America
Founded in 1975, Aurora Corporation of America (ACA) has evolved from a calculator distributor to a full-service provider of a wide variety of office machines. Headquartered in Torrance, California, ACA's warehousing facilities, logistic capabilities and call center are fundamental to servicing North American retail customers and end users. Leveraging customer relationships and sourcing capabilities in Asia, ACA's research and development team designs original and innovative products for the U.S. market.

With the C1210 you can shred CDs ...

... and even old credit cards.

And the LED lights indicate Power, Overload, and Basket Full.

What's in the Box
Aurora C1210 12-sheet professional crosscut paper shredder and collapsible wastebasket.

Product Description

Aurora 12 Sheet Confetti Cut RTA Paper Shredder with 3 mode Switch-auto/Reverse/Off, shreds credit cards and CDs, has Overload/Overheat Protection, pull-out mesh wastebasket, Power/Basket Full/Over load LED indicator, safety angled paper slot and stylish glossy finish

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A decent shredder, November 22, 2008

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T.N. - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Aurora C1210 12-Sheet Professional Crosscut Paper Shredder (Black) (Office Product)

On the night the shredder was delivered, it took me no more than 5 mins to unpack box and set it up. I like the collapsible bin design, and it indeed greatly reduces consumption of non-recyclable plastic. I shredded about 5 years bank and credit card statements, and they filled about two 13 gallons garbage bag, fully compacted by my foot. The motor case even didn't get warm afterwards. I only tried about 6 pages at a time because I believe that will help motor from being overtaxed and should keep it running longer time. I did lubricate the shredder after every 5 full bins by several pages drenched with peanut oil. The curved feeding slot design is much simple and elegant, and does not require any "high" tech proximity gadget found in some Fellowes models. The overall noise is much lower than a Fellowes in my office previously. Regardless how fancy it is, a shredder is a shredder. As long as its noise level, capacity and duty cycle meet your needs, it's a good shredder.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great shredder for the baby's room or nursery, March 25, 2009

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Hermosa Writer (Hermosa Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Aurora C1210 12-Sheet Professional Crosscut Paper Shredder (Black) (Office Product)

If you need a quiet shredder for the baby's room this is perfect. It is very quiet. But as a shredder system it has its downfalls. It gets one star from me because it claims to be Professional. The word is in the title. It isn't professional grade. But it is quiet.

For a personal use shredder this might be okay. Especially if your use is very low. But for our office this shredder is just not easy to enough to use to make it a keeper. If it had a bigger basket, probably. Why not make it twice as tall, it could be done for under a dollar?

First, the positives:
1-The shredder itself is good enough, and quiet.
2-It has a small footprint, and it's quiet.
3-Could be stored in a cabinet and only brought out when Fawn Hall visits. And it's quiet.

Now the not so positives:
1-The shredder itself is good enough, but chokes on 12 sheets. This was day one. It shredded some files and did okay. And it's quiet.
2-It claims the basket holds up to 280 sheets of shredded paper. Here are the numbers to remember; 30, 20, and 10. Ours usually shuts down after 25 to 35 sheets of paper and you have to tamp down the shredded paper inside. The second time it does it after 15 to 20 pages, cause remember, the basket already has a lump of shredded paper in it. The third time it quits after 10 or 15 sheets, and it's time to empty the basket. That's not anything near 280 pages of shredded paper. But it's quiet.
3-The basket does fold for shipping, but because it's cheaply made and bendy it isn't smooth getting it in and out of the shredder rack. But it's quiet.
4-It claims to be a confetti shredder. If so, that is the largest confetti ever. It's a crosscut shredder, nothing close to a micro cut.
5-It doesn't like shredding CDs. It rejected half of the ones we put in it, just sent them back up. Destroyed, pretty well, but not shredded.

For a personal use shredder this might be okay. Especially if your use is very low. But for our office this shredder is just not easy to enough to use to make it a keeper. If it had a bigger basket, probably. Why not make it twice as tall, it could be done for under a dollar? And quietly.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aurora C1210 12-Sheet Professional Crosscut Paper Shredder (Black), March 16, 2009

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J. Ladore (PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aurora C1210 12-Sheet Professional Crosscut Paper Shredder (Black) (Office Product)

This is probably the best shredder I have had. So far so good. You have no idea how many years of back paperwork I have been shredding. This machine is a little work horse. I opted against the so called Gold Box special mentioned in some reviews assuming it was made cheap for retailers and bought the Aurora C1210 12-Sheet Professional Crosscut Paper Shredder (Black) being sold by Amazon and I am very happy I did. Also mentioned in reviews to periodically run a sheet of paper with oil on it through the shredded. This makes sense to lubracate the inners and I believe it is important to protect the shredding gears. Peanut oil was mentioned to use in other reviews but I opted for WD-40 believing that some food or veggie oils can become sticking and may damange the machine. WD-40 works great and will not build up or become sticky I use it all the time. Allow the machine to cool a bit once in a while is a good idea too, although it never required it, it just keeps working like a PRO. I highly recommend this machine it's awesome! 5 STARS!