CanSealing Systems Wins 2026 IMDPA Excellence in Quality Award for Best of Category Digital Printing
Proprietary patent pending process achieves full-coverage bottom-shoulder-to-neck print, 3D relief graphics, and flawless color uniformity on the "Summer Vibes" bottle decoration.
LITTLETON, Colorado — October 5, 2026 — CanSealing Systems (cansealingsys.com) today announced it has been awarded top honors at the 2026 International Metal Decorating & Packaging Association Annual Conference Excellence in Quality competition, earning Best of Category – Digital Printing for its breakthrough work on the "Summer Vibes" aluminum bottle.
The Excellence in Quality award recognizes engineering precision, technical execution, and the
skillful achievements of the metal decorating and packaging industry. CanSealing Systems’ "Summer Vibes" submission earned top marks from judges for overcoming historical physical limits in fully formed aluminum canvas decoration.
"Legacy digital printing on fully formed metal containers has been severely constrained by existing equipment suppliers, restricting the graphic canvas to straight-walled cylindrical areas—with some attempts at printing over neck diameter variations of just a few millimeters resulting in a loss of precision," said Vincent Stempfer, Managing Partner at CanSealing Systems. "The 'Summer Vibes' bottle demonstrates that brands no longer need to compromise. Achieving full bottom-shoulder-to-neck coverage alongside digitally printed 3D relief graphics proves what advanced Koenig & Bauer Kammann digital printing capabilities can deliver at scale."
Technical Intricacies of the Award-Winning "Summer Vibes" Bottle
● Full-Canvas Coverage: Represents the first aluminum bottle to be digitally printed from the bottom shoulder continuously up through the neck taper without distortion.
● Digitally Printed Embossed Graphics: Features raised 3D relief graphics printed directly onto the substrate, eliminating the need for expensive physical mechanical tooling or secondary stamping processes.
● Seamless Color Uniformity: Delivers precise color matching and smooth gradient transitions across variable canvas curvatures and tapered diameters.
● Vivid Color Rendition: Utilizes high-precision digital droplets sizing, deposition and placement to deliver color accuracy and vibrancy.
About CanSealing Systems CanSealing Systems’ mission is to eliminate metal container structural waste through circular reinstatement of pre-consumer inventory and state-of-the-art ‘Next-Gen Can’ decoration powered by Koenig & Bauer Kammann’s digital printers. By converting production scrap, graphic overruns, and obsolete stock into high-margin 'Better Brites', CanSealing delivers a high-efficiency alternative to the energy-intensive status quo of remelting aluminum—unlocking line capacity, eliminating financial write-offs, and dramatically slashing Scope 3 carbon emissions.
