Paperstone stocks all your familiar correction aids, including correction fluid, correction pens, correction tape (correction rollers) and various erasers, for all those pesky errors that are not worth re-printing an amended document for or for when you notice a mistake in a taxi on the way to a meeting.

Tipp-Ex

Tipp-Ex is the brand most associated with correction fluid in Europe, so much so that in English Tipp-Ex has become a genericised trademark – to tippex out means to erase, either generally or specifically with correction fluid. To Tippex has also gained figurative use, referring to erasing from the record or firing staff. The spelling Tippex is commonly accepted in verb form.

Tipp-Ex is a German company that was founded in 1959. “Tipp” is the German for “type”, “ex” the Latin for “no more”.

Before the arrival of word processors, Tipp-Ex correction paper made it possible to erase typos typed with a typewriter. The typewriter would be backspaced, the correction paper placed in front of the ribbon and the mistyped letter retyped. Demand grew quickly. Tipp-Ex correction fluid was launched in 1965. Tipp-Ex correction tape first appeared in 1992.