Journalists posted footage online of the team "banging ourselves out" -- an old tradition of banging the desks to mark the departure of a colleague.
The newspaper's final editorial said history would be the judge of its "bold transition" to online media, "as an example for other newspapers around the world to follow".
"Today the presses have stopped, the ink is dry and the paper will soon crinkle no more," it said.
"But as one chapter closes, another opens, and the spirit of The Independent will flourish still."
The newspaper's Russian-born British owner, Evgeny Lebedev, who announced the closure of the print edition last month, wrote that journalism had "changed beyond recognition" and the newspaper "must change too".
The Independent was set up by three former journalists in 1986 and became known for its eye-catching, campaigning front pages and emphasis on photos.
At the peak of its popularity , it had a circulation of more than 420,000, but this slumped to 40,000.
In an editorial, The Guardian paid tribute to a "really rather wonderful newspaper" that had suffered from dramatic changes to the advertising market, notably the shift in revenues to sites such as Facebook.
"Great newspapers which have survived for centuries find their business models challenged as never before. So no one will celebrate the end of the Independent in print," it said.
Saturday March 26,2016's final edition will include four special magazines looking back at its history, before it becomes the first daily national to close in Britain since 1995, when Today folded.
Final edition features article by co-founder and first editor Andreas Whittam Smith and a letter from its last editor, Amol Rajan
A bumper 16-page souvenir pullout will mark the end of its 30 years in print before it becomes the first national newspaper in the UK to go Online Only
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