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17-590: The Coop was founded as the Harvard Cooperative in 1882 to supply books, school supplies , and wood and coal for winter heating. MIT, following its move from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, invited the Coop to open a branch of the store at the Institute, where it has been present ever since. Today, the store is one of the largest college campus bookstores. Only students, faculty , alumni and employees of MIT, Harvard, and

34-419: A typewriter is largely obsolete, having been superseded for most purposes by preparing a document with a word processor and then printing it. 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

51-515: A monopoly over the publishing industry in England and was responsible for copyright regulations. Printing is the process of applying a colouring agent to a surface to create a body of text or illustrations. This is often achieved through printing technology, but can be done by hand using more traditional methods. The earliest form of printing is wood blocking. Letterpress is a process of printing several identical copies that presses words and designs onto

68-587: Is a major manufacturer and retailer of stationery, and MUJI is a popular retailer in larger cities. Multipart stationery Multipart stationery is paper that is blank, or preprinted as a form to be completed, comprising a stack of several copies, either on carbonless paper or plain paper, interleaved with carbon paper . The stationery may be bound into books with tear-out sheets to be filled in manually, continuous stationery (fanfold sheet or roll) for use in suitable computer printers , or as individual stacks, usually crimped together. The purpose

85-450: 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 is a printing technique used to create raised surfaces in the converted paper stock. The process relies upon mated dies that press

102-429: Is to produce multiple simultaneous copies of a document produced by handwriting with a pen that applies pressure, such as a ballpoint pen , or with an impact printer . The pressure of writing or impact printing on the carbon or carbonless paper transfers the content to the copy sheets. Depending upon requirements, up to typically four copies of the original can be made, with the quality and readability decreasing towards

119-558: 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. 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. The Stationers' Company formerly held

136-550: The MIT branch announced that it was the first campus bookstore in the U.S. to accept bitcoin payments. The MIT branch had, for decades, operated a department store and general bookstore at 325 Main Street as Kendall Square 's largest retailer. In February 2019, this store moved to smaller temporary home at 80 Broadway, to allow for demolition of the building housing its former location. A new, taller sixteen-story building will be constructed on

153-423: The bottom copies. This type of stationery can be used whenever multiple copies are required, of quality adequate for the purpose, usually noticeably inferior to, for example, laser-printed output. Typically a company may need a document such as an invoice to give to a customer (original), with a copy for their own accounting department (first copy), and possibly further copies for other purposes. The paper stock used

170-410: 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

187-496: 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. 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

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204-1036: 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. 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 , set squares, lunch boxes, and related items. This section contains an incomplete list of famous brands, manufacturers and retailers of stationery worldwide. In US and Canada , Office Depot and Staples are two major retailers of stationery. Notable stationery brands in Europe include LAMY , MOLESKINE , Staedtler , and Faber-Castell . In Japan, major manufacturers of stationery include Kokuyo, Maruman, Lihit Lab, King Jim, MUJI and Tombow. MUJI also has about 800 retail stores worldwide. In mainland China, 晨光文具 (Chén guāng wén jù)

221-401: 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 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

238-537: The personnel of the hospitals affiliated with the Harvard Medical School are eligible to join. Membership cost $ 1 annually in 1882, and this fee has not been increased. Members may also purchase a Coop Diary, a black combination pocket diary, academic year calendar, and address book. The Coop traditionally had disbursed its annual profits as a rebate to members in October of each year. As of July 1, 2014,

255-446: The rebate program has been replaced with an automatic additional discount of 10% at the registers, for Coop members in good standing. The Coop stores are managed by Barnes & Noble College Booksellers , under supervision of a board of directors, including eleven students elected by the student membership. Faculty, alumni, or officers of MIT or Harvard fill another eleven seats, and the Coop's president serves ex officio . In 2014,

272-581: The site, and the Coop is expected to move into a space larger than its temporary quarters, but possibly smaller than its previous space at that location. 42°22′25″N 71°07′11″W  /  42.3737°N 71.1196°W  / 42.3737; -71.1196 School supplies Stationery refers to writing materials, including cut paper, envelopes, writing implements , continuous form paper , and other office supplies . Stationery includes materials to be written on by hand (e.g., letter paper) or by equipment such as computer printers . Originally,

289-424: 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

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