No. 9208 Hot Pressed Board is a true artist board and part of Crescent's Hi-Line series of illustration boards. We highly recommend this board to watercolorists and wherever and whenever you want an archival, hard, extra-smooth, acid-free surface. This surface can be scraped and reworked and allows easy release of masking tape for hard edge artwork. This extra heavyweight board is .125" thick and has both an acid-free surface and white acid-free core. Superb!