IS/ISO 12636 : 2018 Graphic Technology-Blankets for Offset Printing

Note : ( Superseding IS 15141 : 2002/ISO 12636 : 1998 )

New Standard from Last Update.

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical with ISO 12636 : 2018 Graphic technology — Blankets for offset printing‘ issued by the International Organization for Standardization was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Printing Machinery Sectional Committee and approval of the Mechanical Engineering Division Council.

This standard shall supersede IS 15141 : 2002/ISO 12636 : 1998 — ‘Graphic technology — Blankets for offset printing’.

The blanket is an essential part of every offset printing press. Its properties exert a profound influence on the mechanical conditions within the press and the visual characteristics of the prints produced. It is, therefore, useful to provide test methods, unified data, and tolerances for some essential properties of the blankets. This permits the suppliers to state properties of blanket types in a unified and well known manner. It also helps the printer to select the appropriate blanket type for a particular press type or press condition. A further benefit is that the design of printing presses can be based on blanket data resulting from unified test methods.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminologies and conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear, referring to this Standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker, while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.