Meanings of platen in English

The platen had a spiral groove on its surface, like the disk.

The bolt holes in the platen should be directly over those in the base.

He removed the first transparency and flipped a second onto the overhead's glass platen.

It made comforting sounds, well-worn keys striking the platen, a little bell when the carriage returned.

Seeing her intent, Malone moved to the printer and rolled a sheet of paper into its platen.

The printer suddenly stopped for the last time, and Malone pulled the final sheet from the platen.

In others, the platen was hinged to the bed, but in all of them the mechanism was complicated.

Or Type-Sync-withthe keyboard welded solid, while periodically extracting photocopied pages of an admired manuscript from the platen.

Eventually, he was able to simply snitch it out of the platen of the humming Selectric and walk out.

It actually has the letters on it and it hits the rubber platen and transfers the letters onto the paper.

Jerry, that platen press.

You will see from the cut in the catalogue that the platen roller is easily removed without a long mechanical operation.

The machine pictured is a Heidelberg platen with a top speed of 5,000 impressions per hour.

The old platen's rubber, cracked and hard as concrete, was partially responsible for chewing up the paper and shredding the ribbons.

They would cast it onto a steel platen, they pour it out a bit like toffee, it would flow and become flat.

The pressroom occupations include platen and cylinder pressmen, web or newspaper pressmen, platen and cylinder pressfeeders, plate printers, cutters, flyboys and apprentices.