Printing blanket types 

Main types:

  • conventional blankets with  NBR Compound. Can work with normal conventional paste ink
  • combi/Hybrid blankets with HNBR compound. Can work both with Conventional & UV Inks (70:30)
  • UV dedicated blankets  for UV inks. The top rubber surface is EPDM coating

Among the wide choice of Trelleborg printing blankets, printers can choose the solution with a top face made with the EPDM formula compound, if the application uses only UV inks, or a combi blanket, if you use both conventional and UV inks.

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What is UV Printing?

Many are the advantages of the UV inks, and can be listed as:

  • Very fast curing
  • Curing is independent of the pH of the fountain solution
  • 100 % dry solid content
  • No evaporation of solvent
  • Perfect stability on rollers and in ink duct as no solvents involved
  • Needs little energy and space
  • Very good adhesion on a lot of different substrates
  • Gloss of UV-varnishes is very high
  • Chemical and heat resistant

    • To achieve these results offset printer are requested to use a special printing blankets, suited for UV inks

    UV in food packaging

    Food packaging is one of the most critical areas of applications of printing. There are well defined clauses and regulations to be followed and food packaging is classified in two main macro segments:


  • Direct food contact or Primary Packaging
  • Indirect Occasional Food Contact or Secondary packaging


    • Call us to know the ISEGA certified proper solutions that matches the rules.

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