Platen
Flat platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Platen (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Paten.
A platen (or platten) is a platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing. It can be a flat metal (or earlier, wooden) plate pressed against a medium (such as paper) to cause an impression in letterpress printing.[1] Platen may also refer to a typewriter roller which friction-feeds paper into position below the typebars or print head. It can refer to the glass surface of a copier, and the rotating disk used to polish semiconductor wafers.
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