Independent Can, Manufacturer of custom tins, stock decorative and seamless tins, industrial cans and quality metal packaging.

Metal Star 2 - 6 Color Print Line

Design & Prepress

Award Winning Metal Lithography

Custom Printed Tins - World Class Metal Decorating

In 1991, in accordance with our goal to achieve the highest quality flat sheet, metal lithography, we took the step of becoming our own printer. We quickly became an award winning global leader. Our investments in the latest technology assure maximum visual quality and shelf appeal for our products. Customers’ projects are within our control from design to delivery.

All of our decorative tins, metal signs and other products begin with a flat sheet of steel that is printed in "high definition", 175 - 250 line screen detail.

Our metal decorating facility, constructed to exceed EPA requirements, has a “building within a building” in our Belcamp, MD operation. It houses our Metal Star 2 six color printing line, the only one of its kind in the United States. This press enables us to print more efficiently and with near-photographic quality.

Our fully integrated Prepress and Art Department uses the latest Kodak prepress and Trendsetter plate making system. This equipment makes it possible for our in-house creative team to not only supply art services but also take a design from computer concept to plate.

Specifically developed metal decorating technology combined with experienced and highly trained pressmen assure a uniquely high level of consistently repeatable print quality.

Equipment:

2, 4 and 6 color printing lines
Thermal and ultraviolet coaters
New 4 color printing line operational 1st quarter 2010

This represents the second METALSTAR 2 following the first installation of a 6-Colour METALSTAR 2 in 2004. This printing line will be extended in a second step with a Sprint Revolver Coater Type 490, hence allowing to execute a 6-colour print plus applying the overvarnish in one pass.

Capabilities:

175 line screen capability printing with conventional dot
250 line screen printing with concentric screening

Independent Can has received more than 20 awards for exceptional lithography from the International Metal Decorators Association. Can Maker Magazine has honored us on three occasions with their Cans of the Year Award.

2009 Award Of Excellence - PGMA (Printing and Graphics Assoc. Mid-Atlantic)

We print on metal for a variety of applications. For a quote on our flat sheet metal decorating only contact Maria.