Lithography Information for printed white tin cans

Size table for printed white tin cans

Please use the following table to create the printing data for white tin cans:

Filling volume	Brimfull volume	Nominal size in mm Ø x height	Printing area length x height	Text area length x height	Reduction from printing area	Cans per pallet	Pallet height including pallet
100 ml	140	45/41x96	138 mm x 93 mm	134 mm x 79 mm	top 7 mm bottom 7 mm left + right 2 mm	3.072	1,34 m
150 ml	210	52/48x105	161 mm x 102 mm	157 mm x 86 mm	top 9 mm bottom 7 mm left + right 2 mm	2.304	1,43 m
200 ml	270	52/48x132	161 mm x 130 mm	157 mm x 114 mm	top 9 mm bottom 7 mm left + right 2 mm	2.016	1,46 m
300 ml	405	57/52x164	176 mm x 162 mm	172 mm x 147 mm	top 8 mm bottom 7 mm left + right 2 mm	1.512	1,28 m
400 ml	520	57/52x207	176 mm x 205 mm	172 mm x190 mm	top 9 mm bottom 7 mm left + right 2 mm	1.260	1,50 m
400 ml	520	65/60x157	202 mm x 154 mm	198 mm x 139 mm	top 8 mm bottom 7 mm left + right 2 mm	1.176	1,66 m
500 ml	650	65/60x195	202 mm x 192 mm	198 mm x 178 mm	top 7 mm bottom 7 mm left + right 2 mm	1.008	1,69 m
600 ml	800	65/60x240	202 mm x 238 mm	198 mm x 222 mm	top 9 mm bottom 7 mm left + right 2 mm	840	1,66 m

Size of the white tin plate

The height of the plate is usually the height of the printing area. The length of the printing area is usually 4 mm smaller than the plate because the edges of the plate close by the welding seam can not be printed.

Printing area

The printing area defines the area on the plate that can be printed. But for technical reasons, the outer frame of the plate is limited to certain objects which may not include text, picures, logos etc., but rather the general background of the design. After deducting the outer frame from the plate size, the text area is left over.

Text area

This is the area where all kinds of objects can be printed without limitation: background, text, pictures, logos etc. In the third column from the right in the table, you can read what has to be deducted from the printing area to get the text aera.

Software and file types (status August, 2005)

Operating system Mac OSX with Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop, Art Pro and InDesign. File types are Eps, Tiff, DTP-formats and PDF-X3.

Transmission of the data

By e-mail or by post (CD/DVD).