Pressing boards

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English

Noun

"Flat boards of solid or laminated wood, or fiberboard, used to insure even pressure when books are pressed."<ref name="Etherington">Roberts, Matt T. and Don Etherington. "Pressing boards". Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Conservation Online, 1994. Web. 28 March 2016.</ref>

For the type of dense board material used for the covers of notebooks and tablets, see pressboard.

Related terms

Pressing, Pressing blocks, Pressing tins, Casing-in boards

Translations

• Danish: (translation needed)

• Dutch: (translation needed)

• French: [[ais|status=preferred|source=ICA}}Crespo Nogueira, Carmen, ed. ICA Handbooks Series : Glossary of Basic Archival and Library Conservation Terms : English with Equivalents in Spanish, German, Italian, French and Russian. Munchen, DEU: K. G. Saur, 2010. ProQuest ebrary. Web. http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/lib/asulib/detail.action?docID=10591270</ref>

• German: Pressbrett1

• Italian: cartone da pressa1

• Latin: (translation needed)

• Russian: [[доска для прессования|status=preferred}} Spanish: tabla para prensar1