Printing design principles for camping gas cartridge

The camping gas cartridge produced by Bluefire, compared to the refrigerant gas can that require heat transfer printing, need the artwork to be pre-printed on the material of tinplate sheet. The raw material used to make the body of the camping gas cartridge is a circular tinplate. Therefore, we need to convert the printed artwork into a circular shape, as shown in the following pictures:

As a professional manufacturer of camping gas cartridge, Bluefire offers the following three suggestions regarding the printing artwork:

1. Vertical text arrangement

Camping gas cartridges are the type of two-piece cans. During the stretching process, the tinplate extends vertically. If the text is arranged horizontally, it will form a wavy shape. Therefore, we recommend that the text be arranged vertically, in line with the direction of the tinplate's extension. The three cans in the following pictures have their text arranged vertically.

2. The text and patterns should be placed as close to the top as possible.

This is related to the particularity of the stretching process. The closer to the bottom, the greater the deformation of the tinplate and the patterns. Therefore, Bluefire suggests placing the text and patterns in the upper half of the jar (approximately 2/3).

Please look at the picture below. The text and pattern should be placed as close as possible within the red frame at the top.

3. The base graphics for printing should be irregular shapes, such as scattered mountains, flames, abstract lines, etc.

Since the stretching deformation of the tinplate is random and uncontrollable, straight lines will become curves, and circles will become ellipses. Therefore, we can choose some disordered patterns or irregular lines as the base graphics for the printed patterns, especially the lower part of the camping gas cartridge. Or only the color, without the pattern.