The original Selectric had to be ordered to use either cloth reusable ribbon or one-time carbon film ribbon; the same machine could not use both.
Like the cloth ribbon, Tech-3 ribbons incremented only a fraction of the character width after being struck.
Unlike the cloth ribbon, the Tech-3 ribbon provided high quality impressions for several characters from each spot on the one-time-use ribbon.
It was a manual whose well-worn cloth ribbon was too frayed to be of use to i anyone, particularly the KGB.
The medal is suspended from a five sided cloth ribbon which is 48 mm (1.9 inches) at the widest point.
It continued to type sensitive information on manual typewriters with cloth ribbons, sometimes even recording it by hand.
He was barefoot, his face was shaved, and his hair was tied up in brown cloth ribbons.
Along with that of tapes, fringes and other smallwares, the manufacture of cloth ribbons forms a special department of the textile industries.
Kadishev used the same cloth ribbon many times.
For moving outside, the excess cloth was tied up beneath the obi with a wide cloth ribbon called shigoki obi.