What is the difference between digital and offset can printing?
Offset needs metal plates and minimums in the hundreds of thousands. Digital needs neither. What each costs and where the line between them falls.
Read the answer 02What is short run can printing?
Printing beverage cans in the low thousands, not the hundreds of thousands. What counts as a short run, what it costs, and where the real minimum comes from.
Read the answer 03What drives the cost of a printed can?
The per-can price is the smaller half of what you pay. Run length, plates, pallet maths and freight move the number more. Here is what drives it.
Read the answer 04How do order minimums for printed cans actually work?
The printing minimum rarely decides your first order. Pallet counts, lid packs and freight set the real floor. How to work out your smallest order.
Read the answer 05What artwork specification do printed cans need?
A can is a cylinder, not a label. Vector files, a white base layer, a printable band smaller than the can, and a barcode that survives the curve.
Read the answer 06Can you match a Pantone colour on a printed can?
Digital can printing builds colour from process inks, so a Pantone is simulated rather than mixed. What that means for a brand colour, and how to sign it off.
Read the answer 07How do you get custom printed cans made?
Printing cans and filling them are two different businesses. The order of operations, what to have ready before a quote, and where buyers lose time.
Read the answer 08How do you get printed cans made in Ireland?
Ireland has no volume can-decorating plant, so every printed can here is imported. What that means for cost, freight and the deposit return scheme.
Read the answer 09How long does it take to get printed cans?
Printing is the fast part. Artwork, colour approval and the filler's calendar decide your date. Where the weeks go, and how to plan backwards.
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