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[novaphile]

Apparently, that is a common problem caused by using a heavier paper - who says you never learn anything here?

On a similar note - my last electric typewriter used a "plastic" type ribbon - you could read direct from the ribbon what you had typed as the character was stamped out of the ribbon. I know that can peel off; in fact it was one way to correct yourself - used your nail to scrape off the plastic letters and then overtyped.

Oh man, you've reminded me of the Land Titles Office...

Once lift off/erasable typewriter ribbons became a thing, they started checking documents that were being lodged, by affixing and removing a length of Scotch tape diagonally across the document.

Correctable typed documents would have the text instantly removed, and the document would be torn in half and handed back over the counter. (And yes, that means that you have lost the 'stamp duty' affixed to that document).

I was caught once, and made damn sure it didn't happen to us again.

(We'd had a document typed by an external agency typist and she didn't know the restriction).

Note, in case the above isn't obvious, documents lodged against land titles can not be 'editable' imagine if you could just lift the owner's name of a transfer and substitute your own!

 

[novaphile]

I can't quite recall, would have thought it was, I do know it was a Brother machine and was lightish grey!

It was a general thing, carbon ribbons and 'lift off' correction tape.

Previous to that, I'd used typewriters that would overtype characters with a white ribbon (similar to correction fluid) to allow corrections.