Vulcan® Offset Printing Blankets

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Business Forms

A selection of compressible blankets, with adhesive-backed carcass, is part of Continental’s offer for a variety of presses, inks and business form applications such as: continuous forms, envelopes, direct mail, labels printing and many other.

Coldset

At Continental the Vulcan® printing blankets for Coldset application comprises selected solutions enable printers to achieve very high standard.

Heatset

At Continental we offer a comprehensive Vulcan® range of blankets to meet all Heatset printers requirements.

Metal Decorating

Specific Vulcan® printing blankets are available: Deco, Pack and Pack UV are part of the range to meet printers’ requirements.

Security Printing

Along with commercial sheetfed, heatset and coldset, the printing world includes a powerful mix of special applications. Security printed products include currency, cheques, plastic bank and credit cards, tax bands and seals, passports and ID cards, licences, certificates, tickets and various devices, such as holograms that are used to authenticate items.

Sheetfed & Packaging

The Vulcan® offer of blankets for sheetfed printing technology consists of a wide selection of solutions for commercials (magazines, catalogues, books, all commercials), packaging (paper and cardboard) and metal decorating applications.

Metal Back Blankets

The full range of Vulcan® metal back blankets for coldset and heatset presses are listed here below.

Key Performance

  • Easy to mount
  • High smash resistance
  • Good print quality
  • High blanket lifetime
  • Energy savings
  • Reduced paper waste
  • Less sinking

Metal Back Blankets for Coldset

Style Name Ink Compatability Printing Surface Color Thickness (mm) Average Load Value N/cm2 @ 0.23 mm Indentation Surface Roughness (Ramicron) Feed Features
Metal Times hybrid blue according to manufacturer drawing 250 1.2 neutral / slightly positive
Metal Evo hybrid blue according to manufacturer drawing 250 1.2 slightly positive
Metal News hybrid dark green according to manufacturer drawing 250 1.0 positive
Metal News 50 hybrid dark green according to manufacturer drawing 250 1.0 positive
Metal News Progress hybrid blue according to manufacturer drawing 250 1.2 neutral
Customized solution Vulcan® Metal Back Blankets are customized for all kind of coldset presses in terms of thickness, dimensions, surface roughness, underpacking, groove on printing face.
 

Metal Back Blankets for Heatset

Style Name Ink Compatability Printing Surface Color Thickness (mm) Average Load Value N/cm2 @ 0.23 mm Indentation Surface Roughness (Ramicron) Feed Features
Vulcan Metal hybrid dark green according to manufacturer drawing 250 0.8 positive