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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. ...
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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. ...
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Greeting cards on display at retail. ...
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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. ...
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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".
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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. ...
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Gallery Ballpoint Ballpoint from common disposable pen. ...
A ballpoint pen A ballpoint pen is a writing instrument, more specifically a pen, similar to a pencil in size and shape. ...
| Ballpen parts Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x568, 222 KB) Beschreibung ballpoint pen parts Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Ballpoint pen ...
| Fountain pen A fountain pen is a writing instrument, more specifically a pen, that contains a reservoir of water-based ink that is fed to a nib through a feed via a combination of gravity and capillary action. ...
| | Pencils This article is about the handwriting instrument. ...
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A hand-spun pencil sharpener. ...
| | | | Crayola wax ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 721 KB) Summary Crayola crayons as photographed by me, George Hernandez (George Hernandez), on 2005-08-25. ...
Crayola logo 2002-present Crayola past logo, 1996-2002 Crayola® is a brand of marking utensils, such as markers, chalk, and colored pencils manufactured by Crayola LLC (formerly Binney & Smith). ...
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| Eraser For other uses, see Eraser (disambiguation). ...
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A variety of rulers A 2 metre carpenters rule Retractable flexible rule A ruler or rule is an instrument used in geometry, technical drawing and engineering/building to measure distances and/or to rule straight lines. ...
| Writing pad A spiral-bound notebook A notebook (also notepad, writing pad, etc. ...
| Wirebound notebook A spiral-bound notebook A notebook (also notepad, writing pad, etc. ...
| Envelope Front of an envelope mailed in the U.S. in 1906 contains postage stamp and address. ...
| | | | Inkjet paper Inkjet Paper Inkjet paper is paper designed for inkjet printers, typically classified by its weight, brightness and smoothness, and sometimes by its opacity. ...
| Tape Image File history File links Download high resolution version (713x800, 144 KB) Sticky tapes This image shows two sticky tapes. ...
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| Carbon paper Image File history File links Carbon_paper. ...
A sheet of carbon paper, coating side down. ...
| | | File folder Hanging file folders A file folder is a kind of folder that holds loose papers together for organization and protection. ...
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A label is any kind of tag attached with adhesive to something so as to identify the object or its contents. ...
| Binder clip An assortment of binder clips, with an AA battery for scale. ...
| Stapler Stapler File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
A standard office stapler A Stapler combines together sheets of paper or other materials by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding over the ends to secure the paper. ...
| Staples Image File history File links Source:http://staplescenter. ...
A packet of staples commonly used in the home or office Staples in use, showing the front and the back side. ...
| Hole punch Hole puncher with one hole File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
A single and a 3-hole paper punch in front of a tape measure (in inches) to show approximate size Two-hole (filebinder) hole punch A hole punch (known also as a hole puncher, paper puncher or rarely perforator) is a common office tool that is used to create holes...
| Chalk For other uses, see Chalk (disambiguation). ...
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