| Card envelopes, window envelopes, photocopier | | | | that we can get the printed material completed. The |
| paper, pens, pencils, staplers, ring binders, toners, ink | | | | perfect partnership, these two essentials depend on |
| cartridges, labels, notebooks, diaries, files, you name it. | | | | each other to fulfill their roles. Without one, the other is |
| It's all over the place. The thing about office stationery | | | | practically worthless. |
| though, is that it's virtually invisible (especially when you | | | | Files and archives are next. Binders, wallets, box files |
| really need something in particular like a stapler), until | | | | and clipboards, lever arch files, magazine holders, |
| you start to consciously think about it, its uses and the | | | | presentation folders, archive boxes. Only once you've |
| tasks it performs. Often taken for granted, | | | | searched desperately through mountains of loose leaf |
| undervalued, the unsung heroes and heroines of the | | | | paper do you realise just how much you rely on files |
| workplace. There when you need it; reliably, helpfully | | | | and archives to keep your business organised, |
| assisting you through your working day. Though we're | | | | information easily retrievable and the place not looking |
| surrounded by stationery do we actually need it all? | | | | like a building site. In our Magnificent Seven analogy |
| What, of all the stationery that surrounds us, are the | | | | files and archives are the Robert Vaughn of office |
| absolute essentials? The must have, mission critical | | | | stationary - Mr Cool, Mr Together, Mr Files and |
| products. What are the seven most important | | | | Archives. |
| common stationary items that your company simply | | | | Next up are envelopes and bags ? infinitely varied and |
| couldn't do without? Here are our 'Magnificent Seven'; | | | | essential for carrying information. The range we use is |
| maybe you share our selection, maybe you'd choose | | | | amazing. How could we possibly live without them? |
| others. | | | | From airmail envelopes, board-backed envelopes, |
| Paper ? there's no such thing as a 'paperless office'. | | | | padded and bubble bags, polythene envelopes, |
| No matter how hard we try to banish this ancient | | | | gusseted envelopes, window envelopes, wage |
| product, paper still has and probably will always have a | | | | envelopes, the list goes on. Despite email and Twitter, |
| principle role in any office environment. Printer paper, | | | | envelopes are big news. Envelopes are the Charles |
| photocopier paper, high quality correspondence paper, | | | | Bronson of the office. Cheeky but lethal Chico (Horst |
| and in a huge range of colours, not just 'white'. How | | | | Buchholz) has to make do with pens, pencils and |
| could we exist without paper? Life would be reduced | | | | markers. Just look around you. Bics, Pilots, Parkers, |
| to the tedious etching on bark or scratching on slate | | | | Pentels, pencils, sharpeners, ball points, highlighters, |
| like in the good old days. Try feeding a tablet made out | | | | markers, erasers all stored neatly and efficiently in |
| of Snowdonia's finest granite through your new | | | | dedicated holders, or scattered liberally around the |
| Kyocera printer! Without paper there would be no | | | | place and even behind the odd ear. Writing and |
| office aeroplanes, no letters, to marketing literature, no | | | | correction office stationery is an essential member of |
| invoices, no reports, no memos. Paper is, without doubt, | | | | the gang. |
| the Yule Brynner of the office stationary Magnificent | | | | Sometimes a paperclip just won't do. Sometimes you |
| Seven. In hot pursuit is Steve McQueen in the form of | | | | need the assuredness, the security, and the brute |
| toner/ink cartridges. Riding shotgun to Yule, toner and | | | | strength of a stapler. Imagine life without a stapler? |
| ink cartridges are essential in so many ways. With the | | | | Impossible. Make way for the one and only James |
| paper in place, branded (only branded please; we don't | | | | Coburn, as fast and deadly with his switchblade as |
| want to damage our printers thank you) toner means | | | | you are with a stapler. |