WESTMONT, IL-- manroland is expanding its North American blanket portfolio with several new products from its worldwide printcom and Dot Star portfolios.  The new products will further enhance the existing portfolio, allowing increased flexibility and alignment of products to customer needs.

Since introducing printcom, manroland has made a strong impact on the printing consumable market with products that offer higher levels of performance, yield, and durability than others in the market.  The meticulous certification process used by manroland is a factor critical to this success.  printcom blankets are no exception.  Hundreds of presses in North America are already running printcom blankets based on their superior print reproduction and extended product life.

During 2011, printcom will release an additional 18 blankets to its portfolio in the United States. These new products will provide manroland greater flexibility when offering solutions to customers, ensuring they have a product that best suits their needs.

With manroland's printcom Preferred Package, printers are seeing the benefits of consolidating all of their purchasing with one consumables vendor. manroland's comprehensive approach allows them to optimize their entire process from the press to the consumables, to maximization of performance and productivity.