Offset Printing Blankets

Innovative and high-performing in offset printing and packaging

Vulcan® is now part of the Continental Printing Technology portfolio.

Vulcan® is the premium choice of offset printing blankets for printers who look for the best quality at every use. It is widely known for its high-end range of solutions for all applications in offset printing.

Vulcan® solutions are designed to match technical requirements of various jobs aimed at printing commercial, packaging, metal, plastic pot, business forms, securities, newspaper and many others.

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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.

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