Conti-Tech says it will introduce a new metal printing blanket for waterless newspaper printing at IfraExpo next month, along with other products.
Based on an earlier CE 51/71, the new Conti-Air Steel CTZ 71 promises to reduce energy use and ink build-up through its slight negative transport behaviour, expected to improve tension and reduce temperatures on plate and blanket surface.
Head of application engineering and sales Markus Gnass says new properties of the blanket will also shorten washing intervals and reduce consumption of washing agents and energy for press drives.
“The blanket also stands out due to its uniform thickness (plane parallelism), which guarantees uniform printing results over the entire length and width,” he says.
The Steel series – certified climate-friendly by Ostwestfalen-Lippe University – will be shown at IfraExpo in Vienna next month, along with Conti-Tech’s relatively new Entropia-TR 2 blanket and a new newspaper blanket from Conti’s Phoenix division. Introduced at DRUPA in 2008, Entropia-TR 2 has an additional compressible layer beneath its cover, claimed to make it extremely stable on four-high units.