> For those typewriters with built in correction tape options (at least some IBM Selectric models, possibly more) the typewriter would retype the character usin

> For those typewriters with built in correction tape options (at least some IBM Selectric models, possibly more) the typewriter would retype the character using the "white-out" ribbon there was also a solution for cheaper typewriters: small sheets of "white-out" paper (known under the genericized brand name "Tipp-Ex" here in Germany) that you could hold between the ink ribbon and the paper to "overwrite" a typo.