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What is a platen?

What is a platen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (printing) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
  2. The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
  3. The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.
  4. The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned.
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I'd set it up on the desk in my bedroom and feed a couple of sheets of paper down behind the platen roller.
Strangely I feel this too with the early poems, a sense of deliberation, you can almost hear the typewriter keys hit the paper on the platen.
The paper bail holds the paper down on top of the cylinder, or platen, that it's wound around.
The pressman pulled on the bar, causing the platen to press the tympan on the inked type and taking the impression.
All these prototypes were shaped into panels of various commercial thicknesses with a steam-heated platen press.
You can lay your shirts flat without a platen or palette inside, or you can make a cardboard or chipboard platen to stick inside.

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