BIRKAN Masterprint EL
Premium blanket for forms printing or highspeed sheetfed
BIRKAN Masterprint EL has been developed especially for forms printing, but can also be used on high-speed sheetfed presses. The stability needed is achieved by optimized adhesive rubber coatings which increase the bond to the low-elongation fabric.
The surface is composed by a newly developed rubber with ideal trapping features. Excellent sheet-release, miminal paper dust piling and reduced ink build-up are achieved by an optimum roughness of the micro-ground surface. The sharp dot reproduction even allows printing of FM halftones.
The printing surface is very well suitable for hybrid printing due to reduced swelling.
Due to a specially developed, highly compressible pore system, the compressible layer is characterized by a consistently low sinking behaviour. The blanket allows frequent switches of paper types without any trouble.
| Application Range: |
| Sheetfed • High speed presses • Forms Printing |
| Compatibility with: |
| Conventional inks • hybrid applications |
| Main features: |
| Excellent trapping • reduced paper dust piling • reduced ink build-up • sharp dot reproduction (suitable for FM screen printing) • consistently low sinking behaviour • high durability |
| Ref. No. | 025323 |
| Thickness | 1.70 mm |
| Colour | dark green |
| Construction | 3-ply, compressible |
| Surface | micro-ground, 0.6 µm (Ra) |
| Total Hardness | 77° Shore A |
| Micro Hardness | 52° Shore A |
| Compressibility | appr. 10% @ 1350 kPa |
| Elongation | ≤1.2% @ 500 N/50 mm |
| Tensile Strength | >4.000 N/50 mm |
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