Alongside cylinders and rollers, blankets play a less conspicuous transportation role in offset printing presses. They transfer ink from the printing plate to the paper and are also responsible for transporting the paper with millimeter precision. The outer layer of these complex, multilayered high-tech products from ContiTech ElastomerCoating is made of the nitrile rubber Perbunan® from LANXESS.

This chemical- and abrasion-resistant elastomer gives the blankets the absolutely homogeneous surface that is required for high dot and contour definition and excellent full-tone smoothness. In addition to the excellent chemical and oil resistance, which is key when it comes to cleaning the blankets, and its outstanding abrasion values, Perbunan® can also be customized to meet the various requirements made of the surface characteristics of blankets in sheetfed and offset printing. Without rubber there’d be no razor-sharp glossy magazines.