Typewriter Ribbons For Sale

If you are unsure as to what ribbon your typewriter requires after checking the guide found below, just send us  the make and model of your machine, and we will get back to you within a few hours!

Note: By default, you will receive a black & red ribbon,  however we can provide all-black ribbon upon request.

Universal Typewriter Ribbon

$9.95
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With this order, you will receive one Universal Ribbon just like one of the ones shown in the picture (one ribbon = two spools.) Unless you specify otherwise with your order, you will receive a two-color black and red ribbon- otherwise you can request an all-black ribbon. Your ribbon will come packaged and unopened. These ribbons are the darkest printing ribbons I have come across, and I highly recommend these if you know they will fit in your machine.

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To check to see if these ribbons will fit in your machine, see the quick guide below on the Typewriter Ribbons For Sale page, and/or contact me!
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- Shipping is free to the lower 48 US states only. If you are in Hawaii, Alaska, or any other country, please contact me for a shipping quote.
If I confirm that a Universal Typewriter Ribbon will not fit in your machine, you will need to send me your old ribbon spools for re-threading. Re-threading takes the old ribbon out of the spools and puts a fresh ribbon into the spools. The spools then can be installed back in the typewriter. If you don't have the old ribbon spools, Contact Us, and I can see if I have spares of the spools that you need for your machine.
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Pricing:

Re-thread Service: $14.00 (Buyer sends old spools and pays shipping; we then re-thread ribbon and pay return shipping)

Complete Re-thread Service: $16.00 (Buyer doesn't have old spools, but I have spare spools that will work; we then re-thread ribbon and send it to buyer)

Shipping is Free to the lower 48 states. If you are in Alaska, Hawaii, or a different country, please ask for a shipping quote.

Check this quick guide to see if our universal ribbons will work with your typewriter or not. Everything on this list has been confirmed by Typewriters 101.
​If your typewriter is not on this list, contact me!
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Universal Ribbon Compatible
  • All Olympia SM Series 
  • Olympia SF, Socialite, Traveller (includes Deluxe models)
  • Olympia SG1, SG3
  • Underwood (portable- minus Underwood Standard 3 bank)
  • Royal (portable- minus Royal Varsity)
  • Anything Adler (portable)
  • Corona/L.C. Smith & Corona/Smith-Corona models: Sterling, Standard, Clipper, Silent, Silent- Super, Galaxie 12, Galaxie, Galaxie Deluxe, Galaxie II, Classic 12, Super Sterling
    • Pretty much everything SMC that isn't extremely small and slim.
  • Early Smith-Corona electrics (5TE/Smith-Corona Electric, Coronet Electric 10, Coronet Automatic 12, Electra 110, Electra 120
  • Brother Charger 11
  • Facit 1620, TP1, TP2
  • Rheinmetall KsT
Universal Ribbons not Compatible
  • Anything Olivetti
  • Remington (See exception list below)
  • Underwood Standard 3 Bank
  • Royal Model D/Varsity
  • Corona/L.C. Smith & Corona/Smith-Corona models: Corona Folding series, Zephyr, Zephyr Deluxe, Corsair, Corsair Deluxe, Corsair 710, Skyriter, Super-G/Ghia (universal spools are too big)
  • Any later electrics which require ink cartridges rather than ribbons
  • Any early typewriters which have non-standard ribbon widths and spools. (Hammond, Blickensderfer, Oliver, Fay Sholes, Smith-Premier, etc.)
Note: Remington models such as: Remington Travel-Riter, Letter-Riter, Quiet-Riter, Miracle-Tab, Ten-Forty, Model 1, Mark II, Noiseless portable models, and a few others do not have interchangeable spools, so the ribbon must be thread directly into the typewriter's built in spools. For that procedure, go to this page and scroll down until you see: "How to change the ribbon on Remington typewriters without interchangeable spools."
​Universal ribbons can be purchased for these models, just keep in mind that the spools themselves will not be used; only the ribbon.