Abstract: Conditionally self-copying stationery is provided wherein a carbon copy of handwritten material can be made dependently upon the attitude of insertion of a copy sheet. The copy sheet has a carbon back coating on one face thereof and each of the writing sheets in a pad has a carbon front coating on the upper surface thereof. Dependently upon whether the copy sheet is inserted such that its carbon back coating makes contact with a carbon front coating or not, so a carbon copy is selectably made or not made. The copy sheet is the conventional writing guide found in writing pads, and is printed on both sides with writing guidelines.

Abstract: In a point-of-sale terminal wherein continuous stationery is fed from a fanfold stack by friction drive to be printed, a receipt portion removed, and the residual continuous record stored in a record, fanfold stack, the stationery comprises a base ply having a removable ply affixed thereon by a pair of glue lines outboard of a pair of longitudinal perforated lines for removing an edge strip having sprocket hole lines and inboard of the sprocket holes. Transverse separation lines are provided near the folds in the base ply. The separation lines can be perforated lines, cut right through, or chemically weakened in the removable ply. The second illustrated embodiment of the invention discloses a second transverse separation line spaced away from the first transverse separation line and the part of the removable ply intermediate therebetween affixed to the base ply to prevent the tearing of one receipt from initiating the tearing of a receipt in a following transaction record.