Offset Blankets — Printers' Security Blanket

Decisions, Decisions
McGowan notes that printing envelopes or harder stock with a hard surface blanket can lead to low spots much sooner than if using a compressible blanket, while printing a high screen halftone with a compressible blanket could produce less-than-ideal dots.

"Specialty blankets have come to make the printer's life easier and more productive," he states. "Such blankets would be quick-release style, which have an attached set of aluminum bars, making blanket changes fast and easy."