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| 26.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 17.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 10.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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 Sturdy - AccurateJul 28, 2011
By Monk 2011
I am a freelance desktop publisher and I needed a good paper cutter for the occasional project that I do not send to a commercial printer. This paper cutter fits the bill quite nicely. Sturdily constructed. Cuts accurately. Definitely recommend.
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 I really was looking forward to using this trimmer, butJan 12, 2012
By Cornelius Van Ess IV
2.0 out of 5 stars I really was looking forward to using this trimmer, but,
The Swingline SmartCut A510pro Commercial 15" Heavy Duty Rotary Trimmer - 9615A the Swingline SmartCut A510pro Commercial 15" Heavy Duty Rotary Trimmer - 9615A: Is an alarming disappointment. Here's why: But first as a retired professional photographer, and spending many days of darkroom time, I've either used or owned some of the best rotary & guillotine trimmers the market has to offer over the past 42 years. And in a non biased opinion, based on experience and professionalism, and the trade, I too believe that 'Rotatrim' is the rotary trimmer by which all other trimmers are to be compared too class by class. That statement is more fact than opinion. However, Rotatrim also cost about twice as much too class by class, but worth the cost if perfection is your goal day in and day out.
The two reviewers below mine gave a five star review, and I too wanted to be part of that membership, but can not, sadly, do so and remain faithful to honesty and the facts as I see them so other reviewers can read both sides, and as to why I'm about to be rough in my review about the Swingline A510pro style, paper stock use, rotary trimmer. My purchase of this product was to be based on the criteria that I needed something with a small footprint, light weight for portability, not overly expensive, and with respectful accuracy. Unfortunately, I purchased little of what I needed or wanted with this product.
One positive that the Swingline Smart Cut Pro A510 has is: It appears to be well built and should have been applied to real commercial grade products. Instead it's not very well thought-out for a professional's needs. The negs are many: There are too many safety features for a marketed professional and commercial product. After all, it's not targeted as a kiddy tool with those marketing claims.
The trimmer's safety features with a light weight base get in the way of safety. It has been said that the only dangerous knife is a dull knife, and that's so true. As you think about that comment, let us look at the *plastic safety feature for the blade on the cutter assembly. To make a cut you need to push down to engage the blade out of its safety device to allow the 45mm rotary blade to slice through your project all the while pushing through in one fluid motion. Even practice won't help in maintaining consistently accurate cuts here with a light weight base because everything moves. Let us see, push down, while pushing forward and maintaining even pressure, and then get an accurate cut to boot. Wow, it does magic tricks too. In reality, however, the cutter assembly has a jerky and somewhat sticky motion on its slide bar, and then leaves a convex center to the cut. A square rule easily shows this result. The cutting bar probably has flexed to get the unwanted convex cut, and that's caused by not getting the one fluid motion in the cut, and practice does not make perfect here because it's out of your control when it's caused by the product's design. You'd do better with a hand held rotary cutter or X-acto knife, straightedge, and a self healing mat. (*Note: I have great admiration for modern day plastics.)
The trimmer also has visual safety issues, and accuracy problems too caused by the ibeam shaped slide bar. First, due to the ibeam for the rotary cutter, and the push down blade safety release design, you can not see the blade to make minuet accurate cuts. So the safety now becomes an unsafe problem due to the blade being hidden inside the trimmer's safety. Since you can not see it from the front of the trimmer's work table, you need to rotate the table 90 or 180 degrees to view the blade from the back because the ibeam blocks the view from the front. But wait, the blade is still retracted up into the viper's jaw. I know the solution, push the blade down so it can then be seen. Oops! It cut your finger, but you now know where it's at--just don't move your finger, so man up, and leave it there so you don't lose your mark after all of the sacrifice of your pain.
Because of these issues, and to make accurate cuts (haha), needing to rotate the trimmer's platform base 90 or 180 degrees to see the cutting blade, the trimmer, then, is not accurate enough nor the measuring marks minuet enough to make such critical cuts, and do so safely. So much for an alleged professional and commercial cutter.
An open blade is a safer blade for a professional and commercial product. Does your steak knife have such a plastic safety device, an open razor for your face or legs, an X-acto knife, a surgeon's scalpel, the switchblade in your granny's purse, or a Cub Scout's pocket knife in your child's pocket? If you cannot see the blade at all times it's an unsafe blade!
Much of Swinglines products don't have the high quality of years past, and it's due to global competition. I'm not picking on Swingline because of that per se, but many of their products are now poorly developed and overpriced. Their other series cutters are half the price and might be a better choice, at least the reviews are very positive.
This product is a perfect example of trying to keep their bottom line in the black. Their marketing department has displayed this with their exaggerated claims by coming up with creative marketing techniques and claims such as they did for the professional and commercial A510 pro when the product is nothing more than an over priced home craft cutter with excessive and annoying safety features that get in the way of safe productivity. Moreover, when companies do this kind of marketing they must believe we're Homer Simpson, rather than the astutely savvy, self educated shoppers that we are, and that's due to our shopping has moved from the mall to the Internet, as we now have to buy our products hands off. They know this. Just prudently read their product descriptions and notice all of the information they carefully leave out. Stuff that seems trivial, but critical for us in making informed decisions, and this is why we need each other's detailed reviews on the product itself, and our personal opinions and experiences about the product pro and con in our reviews because everyone wins. Just don't allow sales people to manipulate our thinking as they spend billions each year, with money out of our pockets, to do just that. The manufacturers, vendors and merchants, and us--the consumer--who makes it all come together as a win, win for all... We rule, not them, so take control and tell them what we want by not allowing them to tell us what we need, and maybe we'll stop being fed junk when we want quality at a reasonable cost. Like it can be and once was.
I hope this review will aid others in the quest for good purchasing knowledge with informed balanced decisions.
I fixed the above problem by returning the trimmer under Amazon's great returns program and purchased the Dahle 440 14-1/8" Professional Series, High Capacity Rolling Blade Rotary Trimmer. For me, this is in the range of criteria I set (the cost was $44 more than the $110 I set, though, but on sale at MyBinding). I'll do a review on this product after I've used it more thoroughly, and I'll try not to rant (grin). Dahle 14 1/8IN Rolling Paper Trimmer - Dahle 440
3 of 11 found the following review helpful:
More than expected!Jan 06, 2009
By Connie Hamann
After trying to order this cutter from several office supply stores stores, all of which were out of stock, I went to Amazon and placed my order. The cutter was here in three days and the quality was excellant. I do not know why I wasted my time with the other sources, Amazon always comes through with dependability, quality and quick service.
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