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Stationery is a mass noun referring to commercially manufactured writing materials, including cut paper, envelopes, writing implements, continuous form paper, and other office supplies.[1] Stationery includes materials to be written on by hand (e.g., letter paper) or by equipment such as computer printers.

History of stationery[edit]

Originally, the term 'stationery' referred to all products sold by a stationer, whose name indicated that his book shop was on a fixed spot. This was usually somewhere near a university, and permanent, while medieval trading was mainly carried on by itinerant peddlers (including chapmen, who sold books) and others (such as farmers and craftsmen) at markets and fairs. It was a unique term used between the 13th and 15th centuries in the manuscript culture. Stationers' shops were places where books were bound, copied, and published. These shops often loaned books to nearby-university students for a fee. The books were loaned out in sections, allowing students to study or copy them, and the only way to get the next part of the book was to return the previous section.[2] In some cases, stationers' shops became the preferred choice for scholars to find books, instead of university libraries due to stationers' shops' wider collection of books. [3]The Stationers' Company formerly held a monopoly over the publishing industry in England and was responsible for copyright regulations.

Uses of stationery[edit]

Printing[edit]

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Printing is the process of applying a colouring agent to a surface to create a body of text or illustrations. The earliest form of printing is wood blocking.

Letterpress[edit]

Example of inked letterpress process

Letterpress is a process of printing several identical copies that presses words and designs onto the page. The print may be inked or blind, but is typically done in a single color. Motifs or designs may be added as many letterpress machines use movable plates that must be hand-set. Letterpress printing remained the primary method of printing until the 19th century.

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Single documents[edit]

When a single document needs to be produced, it may be handwritten or printed typically by a computer printer. Several copies of one original paper can be produced by some printers using multipart stationery. Typing with a typewriter is obsolete, having been largely superseded by preparing a document with a word processor and printing the document.

Thermographic[edit]

Example of thermographic printing. The uneven quality of the text is a result of the process and easily differentiates thermographic printing from embossing

Thermographic printing is a process that involves several stages but can be implemented in a low-cost manufacturing process. The process involves printing the desired designs or text with an ink that remains wet, rather than drying on contact with the paper. The paper is then dusted with a powdered polymer that adheres to the ink. The paper is vacuumed or agitated, mechanically or by hand, to remove excess powder, and then heated to near combustion. The wet ink and polymer bond and dry, resulting in a raised print surface similar to the result of an engraving process.

Embossing[edit]

Example of an embossed design
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Embossing is a printing technique used to create raised surfaces in the converted paper stock. The process relies upon mated dies that press the paper into a shape that can be observed on both the front and back surfaces. Two things are required during the process of embossing- a die and a stock. The result is a three-dimensional (3D) effect that emphasizes a particular area of the design.

Engraving[edit]

Example of a brass engraving plate, showing heavy wear. The plate is hand or machine engraved, inked, and forced into paper at extremely high pressures.

Engraving is a process that requires a design to be cut into a plate made of relatively hard material. The metal plate is first polished so that the design cut can be easily visible to the person. This technology has a long history and requires a significant amount of skill, experience, and expertise. The finished plate is usually covered in ink, and then the ink is removed from all of the un-etched portions of the plate. The plate is then pressed into paper under substantial pressure. The result is a design that is slightly raised on the surface of the paper and covered in ink. Due to the cost of the process and expertise required, many consumers opt for thermographic printing, a process that results in a similarly raised print surface, but through different means at less cost.

Classifications[edit]

Different tools used at an office
  • Business Stationery: Business card, letterhead, invoices, receipts
  • Desktop instruments: hole punch, stapler and staples, tapes and tape dispensers,
  • Drawing instruments: brushes, colour pencils, crayons, water colour,
  • Erasers
  • Ink and toner:
    • Dot matrix printer's ink ribbon
    • Inkjet cartridge
    • Laser printer toner
    • Photocopier toner
  • Filing and storage:
    • File folder
    • Hanging file folder
    • Index cards and files
    • Two-pocket portfolios
  • Mailing and shipping supplies:
    • Envelope
  • Paper and pad:
    • Notebooks, wirebound notebook, writing pads, college ruled paper, wide-ruled paper,
    • Office paper: dot matrix paper, inkjet printer paper, laser printer paper, photocopy paper.
  • Writing instruments: ballpoint pen, fountain pen, pencil, porous point pen, rollerball pen, highlighter pen

School supplies[edit]

Many shops that sell stationery also sell other school supplies for students in primary and secondary education, including pocket calculators, display boards, compasses and protractors, lunchboxes, and the like.[4][5]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Peter Beal, ed., 'Stationery', A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology, 1450–2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 [2011 online]).
  2. ^Murray, Stuart (2009). The Library: An Illustrated History. Skyhorse Publishing. pp. 65–66. ISBN9781602397064.
  3. ^Murray, Stuart (2009). The Library: An Illustrated History. Skyhorse Publishing. p. 56. ISBN9781628733228. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  4. ^Streamlined Sales Tax Project 'Definitions for School Related Supplies: SSTP Recommendations for Amendment to Agreement; July 29, 2004'Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^Virginia Department of Taxation 'School Supplies and Clothing FAQs'Archived 2015-02-07 at the Wayback Machine

External links[edit]

  • The dictionary definition of stationery at Wiktionary
  • Media related to Stationery at Wikimedia Commons

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Stationery

U.S. Supreme Court

NW Wholesale Stationers v. Pac. Stationery, 472 U.S. 284 (1985)

Northwest Wholesale Stationers, Inc. v.

Pacific Stationery & Printing Co.

No. 83-1368

Argued February 19, 1985

Decided June 11, 1985

472 U.S. 284

Syllabus

Petitioner is a wholesale purchasing cooperative whose membership consists of office supply retailers in the Pacific Northwest States. Nonmember retailers can purchase supplies from petitioner at the same price as members, but since petitioner annually distributes its profits to members in the form of a percentage rebate, members effectively purchase supplies at a lower price than do nonmembers. Petitioner expelled respondent from membership without any explanation, notice, or hearing. Thereafter, respondent brought suit in Federal District Court, alleging that the expulsion without procedural protections was a group boycott that limited its ability to compete and should be considered per se violative of § 1 of the Sherman Act. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the District Court rejected application of the per se rule and held, instead, that rule of reason analysis should govern the case. Finding no anticompetitive effect on the basis of the record, the court granted summary judgment for petitioner. The Court of Appeals reversed, holding that, although § 4 of the Robinson-Patman Act expressly approves price discrimination occasioned by such an expulsion as the one in question, and thus provides a mandate for self-regulation, nevertheless, because petitioner had not provided any procedural safeguards, the expulsion of respondent was not shielded by § 4, and therefore constituted a per se group boycott in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act.

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Held: Petitioner's expulsion of respondent does not fall within the category of activity that is conclusively presumed to be anticompetitive so as to mandate per se invalidation under § 1 of the Sherman Act as a group boycott or concerted refusal to deal. Pp. 472 U. S. 289-298.

(a) Section 4 of the Robinson-Patman Act, which is no more than a narrow immunity from the price discrimination prohibitions of that Act, cannot properly be construed as an exemption from or repeal of any portion of the Sherman Act or as a broad mandate for industry self-regulation. Silver v. New York Stock Exchange,373 U. S. 341, distinguished. In any event, the absence of procedural safeguards in this case can in no sense determine the antitrust analysis, since if the challenged expulsion amounted to a per se violation of § 1, no amount of procedural protection would save it, whereas, if the expulsion did not amount to a

violation of § 1, no lack of procedural protections would convert it into a per se violation. Pp. 472 U. S. 291-293.

(b) The act of expulsion from a wholesale cooperative does not necessarily imply anticompetitive animus so as to raise a probability of anticompetitive effect. Unless it is shown that the cooperative possesses market power or exclusive access to an element essential to effective competition, the conclusion that expulsion is virtually always likely to have an anticompetitive effect is not warranted. Absent such a showing with respect to a cooperative buying arrangement, courts should apply a rule of reason analysis. Here, respondent, focusing on the argument that the lack of procedural safeguards required per se liability, made no such showing. But because the Court of Appeals applied an erroneous per se analysis, it never evaluated the District Court's rule of reason analysis rejecting respondent's claim, and therefore a remand is appropriate to permit appellate review of that determination. Pp. 472 U. S. 293-298.

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715 F.2d 1393, reversed and remanded.

BRENNAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which all other Members joined except MARSHALL and POWELL, JJ., who took no part in the decision of the case.





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