Pressboard

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Description

A thin, but stiff and strong, smooth-surface paper board. Pressboard is used to binders, report covers, and tablet backs.

Synonyms and Related Terms

solid board; fiberboard; paperboard; pressing board (Br.)

Authority

  • 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

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