Digital print ready Your can, printed dot by dot.
Digital printing puts your design straight onto the aluminium. No label, no printing plates, no truckload minimum. Upload a design and see it on the can.
Getting your can ready…
Example design
PNG or JPG. It stays in your browser.
Why it matters
Printed cans used to come by the truckload.
Conventional can printing is built for volume. One design is set up on printing plates and ordered by the truckload: six-figure quantities of the same can. Fine for a supermarket brand. Out of reach for a wedding, a company event or a first small batch.
Digital printing has no plates. The printer reads a file, so the design can change from one can to the next and a run can be as small as the order.
Conventional printing
One truckload. One design.
About 200,000 cans. Each dot is 1,000.
Digital printing
Your order. Your design.
As many cans as the order needs.
Printed, not labelled
What print adds.
A label sits on the can. Print becomes part of it: the design runs over the whole surface, and the aluminium itself can show through.
Edge to edge
The design runs from the base of the can to the neck and all the way round. No label edge, no gap at the back.
Metal in the design
Leave parts of the artwork transparent and the bare aluminium shows. White goes only where the design needs it.
Gloss and matte on one can
The varnish is part of the print file: a gloss logo on a matte can, in one run. On a label, that is a premium extra.
Every can size
330 ml, sleek, 440, 500 or the pint. The artwork is fitted to each can for you.
Labels today. Print next.
Available today
Labelled cans, from 6 cans.
Choose a drink, add your design and order online. .Can prints the labels in small runs and checks every one; our partner breweries fill the cans and send them to you.
Next
Digitally printed cans.
The same ordering, with the design printed straight onto the can.
Printed cans cannot be ordered yet. Ordering opens when the print line is connected.
An open invitation
Let’s connect the last dot.
If you print cans digitally, build the machines or fill cans that arrive printed, we should talk.
Digital can printers
Your print line, our orders: files made to your template, order by order.
Breweries and fillers
Run printed cans on your line the way you run labelled ones today.
People who can move it forward
Equipment, experience or a useful introduction. If you can help, let’s talk.