When paper is shredded, the size of the shreds can be made to vary in width and length. The smaller the size of the shreds, the more secure the shredder. In Strip Cut shredders (also sometimes referred to as Straight or Ribbon Cut), the cutter heads work in parallel to each other and only the width of the shred is varied - the strips can be as long as the document being shredded if the pages are fed in completely squarely.

Shred width is reduced by placing the cutting edges closer together thereby performing more cuts per pass. This in turn makes the cutter heads work harder, so Strip Cut shredders with smaller width shreds work a bit more slowly or shred slightly fewer sheets per pass. Strip Cut shredders cost less and work faster than their Cross Cut counterparts (see the term 'Cross Cut' in the Glossary).

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