What process is used to label beverage cans?

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[hevnsnt]

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[DaveSimmons]

It's done by chained-up midget Googles with stencils and spray paint. They're illegals so they only get paid a few dollars a day and sleep 20 to a room.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

They had an episode about this on How its made on TLC/Discovery one of those. Its paint.. rolled on.

 

[Eli]

No idea really. I'd imagine that it's just printed on there at some point.

I'm not really sure how they even make aluminum cans. Since there is no seam.... the "barrel" of the can must be a solid tube, and then cut to the right length. So perhaps as that long tube of aluminum is being cut, it's also printed on.

Something like that... lol

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

http://www.canmakers.co.uk/education/how_cans_are_made.asp

 

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[atom]

Heh, thanks, I just found that and a few other sites. It's just ink and clear coat, for some reason I thought it would be something different.

 

[Ornery]

Originally posted by: thEnEuRoMancER
http://www.canmakers.co.uk/education/how_cans_are_made.asp

2.The strip is lubricated with a thin film of oil and then fed continuously through a cupping press which blanks and draws thousands of shallow cups every minute.

3.Each cup is rammed through a series of tungsten carbide rings. This is the ironing process which redraws and literally thins and raises the walls of the cans into their final can shape.

Thanks! I've been wondering about this for years!