Back in the day, when I was a young Geezer, there was a product available called correction tape but it was not this plastic film junk they sell today it was a true paper tape. It was white and came in one, two and three line widths. It had an adhesive back and was backed by a thin piece of plastic coated paper. It came in a square shaped cardboard box not much wider than the tape itself. You pulled off the backing strip and laid down a length of correction tape long enough to cover the mistake. You could then write on it with any type of pen or pencil since it was paper, not plastic film. Todays "correction tape" is a derivative of the correction film used on typewriters but has a surface formulated for ballpoint pen ink, not gel or liquid ink. It won't even accept pencil lead!
Like so many good products paper correction tape seems to have gone by the wayside. I have tried to find it on line and in office supply stores to no avail. I've even tried on line drafting supply stores but I just can't seem to find any. In many ways I miss the "old days" when many products were of better quality that they are today. There are so many things that I once used but can no longer find. Like the old Eraser Stik by Eberhard Faber, then by Sanford. I use them for many things around the house. When I went looking for more I found that they too were unavailable. I did manage to find a dozen on eBay but I paid a hefty price for them. It's a good thing that that dozen will probably last me the rest of my life.
If anyone knows where I can find some of the original paper correction tape please let me know by leaving a comment. Thank you.
Wouldn't paper correction tape be either too thick if it was opaque or too sheer if it were thin enough? When it's too thick if you happen to write on a sheet of paper on top of your corrected page you get those bumps (or if you're a student like me and coloring maps...).
ReplyDeleteI also hate the way correction tape is so filmy that gel and liquid ink won't dry on it. I use fast drying white out pens. Which also has its own problems... which makes me curious about Pilot FriXion... =D
Yes, the stuff I was using was thick in comparison to the film type of today but that wasn't a problem for me as I never wrote on top of a used sheet of paper.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand liquid white out either which is why I don't use it.
I have seen something on the Net that just might work. It's call Artist's Tape. It comes in 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and 1 inch widths. The 1/4" width is the width of a line of college ruled notebook paper. I just haven't found it at a price that I'm willing to pay for.