Pressboard

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English

noun

"A tough, dense, highly glazed rag or chemical wood pulp board used where strength and stiffness are required of a relatively thin sheet."<ref name="Etherington">Roberts, Matt T. and Don Etherington. "Pressboard". Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Conservation Online, 1994. Web. 28 March 2016.</ref>

For the type of board used to maintain even pressure when pressing a book in a book, see Pressing boards.

Synonyms

Board

Translations

• Danish: (translation needed)

• Dutch: (translation needed)

{{Concept translation|language=fr|label=carte de Lyon]]<ref name="Kuhn">Kuhn, Hilde. Wörterbuch Der Handbuchbinderei Und Der Restaurierung: Von Einbänden, Papyri, Handschriften, Graphiken, Autographen, Urkunden Und Globen in Deutscher, Englischer, Französischer Und Italienischer Sprache. Stuttgart: Hettler, 1969. Print.</ref>, carte lisse<ref name="Kuhn" />

• German: Preßspan<ref name="Kuhn" />

• Italian: presspan<ref name="Kuhn" />, cartone da pressa<ref name="Kuhn" />, cartone lucido pressato<ref name="Kuhn" />

• Latin: (translation needed)

• Spanish: (translation needed)