Wasaupaper Controlled Roll Towel Dispenser - Silhouette OptiServ Hands-Free, Black Translucent, Size 11 11/16 X 16 11/16 X 9 7/16 Inch -- 1 Each.

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The intended benefits to this product as opposed to the "classic" lever-operated paper towel dispensers are two-fold:1) To dispense a towel the user pulls on the end of the roll which protrudes from the machine (as pictured). The user only touches the paper towel they'll use, and not any part of the dispenser itself. This aids in cleanliness and reduces the avenues for disease transmission / cross contamination.2) "With pre-measured dispensing, users are encouraged to take only the toweling that is needed, reducing paper waste." (From the manufacturer's website).This completely fails on both counts. It also causes user frustration (trust me, I use one every day).In case you've never used one of these machines before, let me suggest a practical exercise that you can try at work or at home:- Have a friend grasp one end of a paper towel using their thumb and forefinger at each corner.- Wet your hands thoroughly (as if you'd just washed them).- Try to take the paper towel from your friend. You can use any or all of your fingers, BUT you're only allowed to touch the front 2" of the paper towel.Guess who will win? That's right, the guy with the dry hands. As you can imagine (or experience from trying this for yourself), the paper towel disintegrates when you pull on it.The manufacturer has included a lever (behind the bit of paper towel you've now destroyed with your wet hands) that advances the roll a couple of inches. Now, with ever so slightly drier hands you can try grasping the paper towel again. Usually that doesn't work, so you'll just resort to using the lever.At this point, your hands are not dry, but your fingertips are very dry from fruitlessly grasping at paper towels. The towel you've managed to extract from the machine is shredded and moist. You throw it out, and take a new towel (now effortlessly with your dry fingertips).Because this only dispenses about 11 inches of towel at a time and my landlord uses very thin, poor-quality paper, I personally need about 4-5 towels to thoroughly dry my big paws.It should be obvious by now that this machine is no more sanitary than a "classic" lever-operated dispenser, but it probably causes more waste as well.Even if it were more sanitary and less wasteful, I would still only rate this as a 2-star product due to the high levels of frustration it causes.Finally, at least once a week I arrive in the bathroom to find the dispenser jammed. That means going back to my desk with wet hands to dry off using my personal stash of paper towels (proper paper towels that I brought from home). Incidentally, one standard-sized Bounty paper towel is sufficient for my needs.While my complaints hold true for any paper towel dispenser of this kind, I want to assure you that I use this exact brand and model.

our school has a few of these. I haven't noticed jamming being a problem, but buying the paper for these is. I can go to Sam's club or anywhere and buy a huge box of paper towels for our other dispenser. These have slots in them and yes I have even tried cutting out slots using regular rolls. such a pain finding the paper. right now I'm searching for the paper. probably should just take them down and put up new ones.

Okay A++++++++×

outstanding

I'm not really sure what the other reviews see wrong with these dispensers. They're all over my area in schools, churches and restaurants and they perform well. It does help to pull the towel out with two hands as the picture on the dispenser shows.

If I could give this piece of s#@% dispenser zero stars, I would. The other reviewers who have described the problems with it jamming, and being unable to pull a paper towel out are all completely right. This was installed in my middle school art classroom, so it is basically the bane of my existence at work.

This is one of the worst paper towel dispensers I've ever used. We recently had a large number of them installed at work, and none of them work properly. I realize that any paper towel dispenser will jam from time to time, but this one jams several times every day, in an office where it is only used by a few dozen people.I would be tempted to write this off as a fluke, but for the fact that all of the dispensers of the same model that I've used have the same problem.