D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Platen

/plăt'-ən/ · Plat·en · IPA /ˈplætən/
01 n. The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
  1. 1.
    The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.(Mach.)