Patent ID: 7194953

Claim:
A printing blanket adapted to be placed on a surface of a cylinder in a printing press, said printing blanket comprising: an incompressible, inelastic support layer; an elastic, compressible upper layer secured to said incompressible, inelastic support layer, said elastic, compressible layer having a thickness of at least 3.0 mm, said elastic, compressible layer exhibiting a contact pressure in response to a deformation of said elastic, compressible layer, a spring characteristic of said elastic, compressible layer, which is expressed as a ratio of a change in said contact pressure to a change in said deformation of said elastic compressible layer, being less than 700 (N/cm 2 )/mm in a range of an operating pressure for said contact pressure from 80 to 180 N/cm 2 and in a range of said deformation from 0.22 mm to 0.38 mm.