Office supplies are all the supplies regularly used in
offices by
businesses and other organizations. It includes small, expendable, daily use items such as
paper clips,
post-it notes, and
staples, small machines such as
hole punches,
binders,
staplers and
laminators,
writing utensils and
paper, but also encompasses higher-cost equipment like
computers,
printers,
fax machines,
photocopiers and
cash registers, as well as office
furniture such as chairs,
cubicles,
filing cabinets, and
armoire desks. Two very common medium-to-high-cost office equipment items before the advent of suitably priced word processing machines and
PCs in the 1970s and 1980s were
typewriters and
adding machines.