No-pack Blankets — Packing Their Troubles Away

Gene Price, first pressman, agrees. "Installation with a packed blanket takes about one hour on the Mitsubishi—on a good day," he comments. "With this blanket, our average time has been cut in half—from about 15 minutes per unit to 71⁄2 minutes."

"Our operation requires frequent product changes," adds Jim Judkins, general foreman. "Rather than stop the presses and repack the blanket, we can just change the plates and begin a new run."