Paperboard

Drawing of Copley Square
MFA# 39.803

Yosemite painting by Bierstadt; MFA# 47.1236

Description

A heavy Paper that is at least 0.012 inches thick. Some paperboards, such as Millboards or Mat Boards, are made from thick paper pulp castings that are milled or pressed into a hard, stiff sheet. Pasteboard is made from several laminated sheets adhered together. The term Cardboard is ambiguous and more often used for a paper product formed with a central corrugated sheet laminated with smooth exterior sheets.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Cardboard; binder board; Millboard; Pasteboard; Corrugated board; boxboard

Applications

• Packaging
• Signage, printing
• Book and magazine covers, postcards

Physical and Chemical Properties

• Thickness = > 0.012 inches (>30 mm)
• Density = > 0.65 g/cc
• Grammage = > 250 g/m2 (ISO standard)

Working Properties

• Lightweight, Easily cut and formed
• Strong

Resources and Citations

• Boise Cascade Paper Group, The Paper Handbook, Boise Cascade, Portland OR, 1989
• Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
• The Dictionary of Paper, American Paper Institute, New York, Fourth Edition, 1980
• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000