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Stationery is a general name given to paper and office supplies such as envelopes, notepads, pens, pencils, erasers, greeting cards, paper clips, thumbtacks, staples, etc. The term "stationery" is frequently used to refer more specifically to paper used for written correspondence (usually decorated or personalized), sometimes with matching envelopes. Stationary can mean: Look up stationary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Paper (disambiguation). ... Office supplies is the generic term that refers to all supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, from private citizens to governments, who works with the collection, refinement, and output of information (colloquially referred to as paper work). The term includes small, expendable, daily use items such... Front of an envelope mailed in the U.S. in 1906 contains postage stamp and address. ... This article is about the writing pad. ... For other uses, see Pen (disambiguation). ... This article is about the handwriting instrument. ... For other uses, see Eraser (disambiguation). ... Greeting cards on display at retail. ... For other uses, see Paper clip (disambiguation). ... A brass thumbtack A thumbtack (known as a drawing-pin in the UK, India, Australia and New Zealand) is a short nail or pin with a large, slightly rounded head made of metal which is used to fasten documents to a background for public display and which can easily be... A packet of staples commonly used in the home or office Staples in use, showing the front and the back side. ...


Originally the term "stationery" referred to all products sold by a stationer, whose name indicates that his book shop was on a fixed spot, usually near a university, and permanent, while medieval trading was mainly ambulant, by peddlers (including chapmen, who sold books) and others (such as farmers and craftsmen) at non-permanent markets such as fairs. It was a special term used between the 13th and 15th centuries in the Manuscript culture. A peddler, Brit. ... A Chapman, plural Chapmen was an itinerant seller of chapbooks, broadside ballads, and other items in early modern Britain. ... For other uses, see Fair (disambiguation). ... The transition of communication technology: Oral Culture, Manuscript Culture, Print Culture, and Information Age Manuscript culture refers to the development and use of the manuscript as a means of storing and disseminating information until the age of printing. ...

  • By extension the term has been applied to decorative backgrounds that may be attached to E-mail correspondence (though this has never found favour) or to describe templates typically used by home users in desktop publishing software to make, for example, party invitations.
  • The word is sometimes confused with the homophone adjective stationary, meaning "not moving", which is also derived from Latin statio. Mnemonics are "stationery has an e for envelope" pen and pencils; and "stationers" sell "stationery".

Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Adobe InDesign CS2, one of many popular desktop publishing applications. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Stationary can mean: Look up stationary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Mnemonic (disambiguation). ...

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