To provide a printing cylinder, particularly an impression cylinder for a sheet-fed rotary press to be manufactured simply and at low cost and sucking or blowing off a sheet paper to be guided along a cylinder peripheral face.

A plurality of recessed sections 20 are formed on an outer peripheral surface 18 of a cylinder base 8, and an element 22 extended along the outer peripheral face 18 of a printing cylinder 1 is accepted by the recessed sections 20, and the element 22 is provided with a number of through-paths 24 flow connected with a number of orifices 36 of a film 34, and the through- paths 24 are extended from the upper face of the element 22 to a suction air chamber 26 to be connected with a suction air source or a blower air source.