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Blankets stir legal battle The mundane world of printing blankets has been responsible for one of the heavyweight legal battles in the printing industry. Goss sued MAN for patent infringement relating to sleeveless blanket technology used on some Lithoman S web offset presses in the US. This contravened its Sunday Press techn Issue Date: November 2008
Compounds for every need Making the right choice of roller compound and blanket is vital to trouble-free printing. While a company like Böttcher has thousands of different compounds for different press characteristics, there are three areas to look out for. The ideal system should neither swell nor shrink in response to the Issue Date: November 2008
Cost is more than a unit price, says Böttcher The world’s largest producer of rollers for the printing industry is Böttcher, which supplies many of the press manufacturers and which has a UK plant in Ebbw Vale. Stephen Hannon, Böttcher UK managing director, is keen to point out that it is the rollers and blankets on a press that take the ink an Issue Date: November 2008
Day International aims at on-press varnish Having bought British blanket company Duco as the first of a trio of acquisitions (HDP and Russell-Webb its others), Day International is marketing the benefits of the Duco stripping blanket. The stripping blanket is designed to add varnish effects using inline coaters. The early adopters of this te Issue Date: November 2008
Finito packs success for Pomeroy Pomeroy Pressroom Products, along with Ultrachem, is responsible for distributing the vast volume of blankets purchased by UK printers. As a consequence both suppliers can offer a wide spread of branded products and blankets sold under their own name, as well as matched blanket washes and founts. Wa Issue Date: November 2008
Fogra founts advised in drive to lower IPA The final element of the duct to paper ink delivery system is the fount, which needs to work with the ink, rollers and blankets to achieve the best possible quality. The rise in demand for low-IPA and no-IPA founts is one of the reasons for Day International to purchase HDP earlier this year. The Issue Date: November 2008
Green is a combined effort Böttcher is to reward printers that have adopted its eco-logic systems and taken part in seminars and training to appreciate the environmental impact of the consumables used, with certification to recognise this. These can then be used to indicate to customers that for the pressroom chemistry elemen Issue Date: November 2008
Kinyo expands Thermosphere appeal One of Japan’s largest blanket producers, Kinyo, is introducing heatset and coldset web versions of its Thermosphere blanket. The ultimate goal is to become lead supplier to Newsprinters which is still testing a range of suppliers to determine which best suits its triple width presses. The printer w Issue Date: November 2008
Trelleborg aims at blanket lead Trelleborg cemented its position as the industry’s largest independent blanket producer through the acquisition of Macdermid’s blanket business announced just before Drupa. It has paid SEK 400 million (£32.6 million) for the business, making Trelleborg the largest blanket supplier in Europe and seco Issue Date: November 2008
What you need to know about...Blankets and rollers They are the part of the printing press that transfers the ink to the paper, the final step in a chain of quality that began with calibrated prepress, controlled ctp and digital transfer of settings to the press. Yet for too many printers these are considered an expense, not a crucial element in pro Issue Date: November 2008
Wider presses pose quality issue The increasing width of presses, from sheetfed machines rising to 2050mm across, triple-width newspaper presses and heatset web presses beginning to nudge 2 metres across, is increasing demands on component suppliers for precisely engineered and manufactured consumables. For roller manufacturers t Issue Date: November 2008

Blankets stir legal battle

The mundane world of printing blankets has been responsible for one of the heavyweight legal battles in the printing industry. Goss sued MAN for patent infringement relating to sleeveless blanket technology used on some Lithoman S web offset presses in the US. This contravened its Sunday Press techn
Issue Date: November 2008

Compounds for every need

Making the right choice of roller compound and blanket is vital to trouble-free printing. While a company like Böttcher has thousands of different compounds for different press characteristics, there are three areas to look out for. The ideal system should neither swell nor shrink in response to the
Issue Date: November 2008

Cost is more than a unit price, says Böttcher

The world’s largest producer of rollers for the printing industry is Böttcher, which supplies many of the press manufacturers and which has a UK plant in Ebbw Vale. Stephen Hannon, Böttcher UK managing director, is keen to point out that it is the rollers and blankets on a press that take the ink an
Issue Date: November 2008

Day International aims at on-press varnish

Having bought British blanket company Duco as the first of a trio of acquisitions (HDP and Russell-Webb its others), Day International is marketing the benefits of the Duco stripping blanket. The stripping blanket is designed to add varnish effects using inline coaters. The early adopters of this te
Issue Date: November 2008

Finito packs success for Pomeroy

Pomeroy Pressroom Products, along with Ultrachem, is responsible for distributing the vast volume of blankets purchased by UK printers. As a consequence both suppliers can offer a wide spread of branded products and blankets sold under their own name, as well as matched blanket washes and founts. Wa
Issue Date: November 2008

Fogra founts advised in drive to lower IPA

The final element of the duct to paper ink delivery system is the fount, which needs to work with the ink, rollers and blankets to achieve the best possible quality. The rise in demand for low-IPA and no-IPA founts is one of the reasons for Day International to purchase HDP earlier this year. The
Issue Date: November 2008

Green is a combined effort

Böttcher is to reward printers that have adopted its eco-logic systems and taken part in seminars and training to appreciate the environmental impact of the consumables used, with certification to recognise this. These can then be used to indicate to customers that for the pressroom chemistry elemen
Issue Date: November 2008

Kinyo expands Thermosphere appeal

One of Japan’s largest blanket producers, Kinyo, is introducing heatset and coldset web versions of its Thermosphere blanket. The ultimate goal is to become lead supplier to Newsprinters which is still testing a range of suppliers to determine which best suits its triple width presses. The printer w
Issue Date: November 2008

Trelleborg aims at blanket lead

Trelleborg cemented its position as the industry’s largest independent blanket producer through the acquisition of Macdermid’s blanket business announced just before Drupa. It has paid SEK 400 million (£32.6 million) for the business, making Trelleborg the largest blanket supplier in Europe and seco
Issue Date: November 2008

What you need to know about...Blankets and rollers

They are the part of the printing press that transfers the ink to the paper, the final step in a chain of quality that began with calibrated prepress, controlled ctp and digital transfer of settings to the press. Yet for too many printers these are considered an expense, not a crucial element in pro
Issue Date: November 2008

Wider presses pose quality issue

The increasing width of presses, from sheetfed machines rising to 2050mm across, triple-width newspaper presses and heatset web presses beginning to nudge 2 metres across, is increasing demands on component suppliers for precisely engineered and manufactured consumables. For roller manufacturers t
Issue Date: November 2008