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A copying pencil, also an indelible pencil or chemical pencil, [1] is a pencil whose lead contains a dye. The lead is fabricated by adding a dry water-soluble permanent dye to powdered graphite —used in standard graphite pencils—before binding the mixture with clay .
The hectograph, gelatin duplicator or jellygraph is a printing process that involves transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.
Red and blue checking pencil. A blue pencil, also known as a checking pencil, is a two-color pencil traditionally used by an editor to correct a written copy. [1] The blue end is typically Prussian blue, and the red end is typically a warm vermilion red. [1] [2] They are most often half red and half blue, but some are 70% red and 30% blue. [3]
The most common pencil casing is thin wood, usually hexagonal in section, but sometimes cylindrical or triangular, permanently bonded to the core. Casings may be of other materials, such as plastic or paper. To use the pencil, the casing must be carved or peeled off to expose the working end of the core as a sharp point.
In addition to cut-copy-paste, Gypsy introduced double-click to select a word as well as the ability to change the style of a text selection to bold, italic or underlined by pressing the Control key (also called "Look") while pressing "B", "I", or "U".
The pressure applied by the writing implement (pen, pencil, typewriter or impact printer) to the top sheet causes pigment from the carbon paper to reproduce the similar mark on the copy sheet(s). More than one copy can be made by stacking several sheets with carbon paper between each pair. Four or five copies is a practical limit.
FiftyThree, Inc. was an American privately held technology company that specialized in tools for mobile creation and creativity. [1] They were the makers of Paper, Apple's 2012 iPad App of the Year, [2] Pencil, a digital stylus, and Paste, a collaborative presentation tool.