Smith Corona Ribbons will always be in vogue for as long as people as use their typewriters. Fact is that a lot of people still do. Proof of this is the fact that there are about 10,000 Smith Corona outlets in the world today and they’re doing great business despite the so-called recession. One of their most popular products is their Smith Corona ribbons.
Typewriter ribbons are those you insert in between the wedges inside a typewriter. This can also be compared to today’s typewriter “ink” except that it’s simpler to do and it doesn’t cost as much as the computer “ink”. If you’re thinking of the old type of type writer ribbon, Smith Corona also offers that too. However, since the production of the new models of the Smith Corona typewriter, more ribbons come inside a cartridge. Thus, it you simply insert the cartridge with the ribbon inside and proceed to type.
One of the most popular type of Smith Corona Ribbons is their Film Black ribbon that’s known for its sharp quality and clarity for typed text. Should you happen to make any typing errors, you have nothing to worry about since there is the Corona Smith Lift-Of Correcting cassettes tape spools that come along with this Smith Corona ribbons that can be purchased for about 12 dollars in most office supply stores.
For the Corona Typewriter Word Processor type, there’s the Six Pack Correctable Film Black Smith Corona Ribbon. This pack contains six correctable film black ribbon per package that sell at almost thirty dollars. There is also the Multi-Strike Back Single Pack that comes in a dual pack. This type of Smith Corona ribbon is functional because you can correct your own typing errors by simply using the strike back key to erase and correct whatever you want.
Corona also sells the Smith Corona Typewriter spool ribbons that go well for any of the Corona Smith typewriters, even the manual ones. This can be considered the Corona generic typewriter ribbon and you can get it anywhere online. It is sold for about 12 dollars at Amazon. If you have one of those older Corona Smith manual typewriters, there are also a lot of Smith Corona ribbons available at some Ebay stores that specialize in selling parts and ribbons of old typewriters. Most of these ribbons are offered at cheaper prices and they have not been used.
Does Corona Smith manufacture any of the old manual typewriters today? The answer is no, but there are manual typewriters that you can choose from at The Typewriter Shoppe, Ebay and even Amazon. Before the cartridge ribbons, Corona used to sell the small portable spool type ribbon. They’re still available at the Smith Corona Typewriter site along with a series of other spool ribbon types which used to be fashionable during the 60′s and 70′s, before the manufacturing of the word processor type of Corona typewriters. Today, however, there are still people who prefer the manual type of Corona Smith Typewriters and they manage to get their supply of Smith Corona ribbons with no problems at all.
Smith Corona ribbons and typewriters will always be wanted for as long as people want to write to express themselves.