The term "office stationery" covers a massive range of items, from pens and pencils to adhesives, diaries and planning boards. There are many different manufacturers working in the office stationery industry and the choice can be overwhelming, but careful research, and the use of a quality retailer you can trust, will help you make the right decision when it comes to ordering and updating your office stationery supplies.



Adhesive and tape products for the office are available in a wide variety of forms and can prove useful for many tasks around the workplace. Adhesive and tape products include latex adhesives, photomount, PVA, spraymount and all-purpose adhesives, clear tape, double-sided tape, drafting tape, invisible tape, masking tape, packing tape, printed tape and other specialist tape. Tapes are available in a choice of different thicknesses. Glue sticks, rollers and tacks can also be made use of for a number of office tasks.

Art supplies and graphic supplies also come under the umbrella of office stationery and quality art and graphic materials are very important when it comes to making the right impression of your business with your customers. Art and graphic supplies include crayons, chalk, charcoal, cutting mats, drawing aids, fine art pencils, guillotines, trimmers, cutters, knives, technical pens and other general graphics supplies.

Stationery is a general name given to paper and office supplies such as envelopes, notepads, pens, pencils, erasers, greeting cards, paper clips, 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.

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 of term used between the 13th and 15th centuries in the Manuscript culture.

• By extension the term has been applied to decorative backgrounds that may be attached to E-mail correspondence (though this has never found favour with the kingston sun gods) 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".