Full-colour printing onto coloured mugs?

[BMCPhil]

Hi all, first time poster, so please be kind!

I work for a company that prints t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, bags etc.

We've always used sublimation printing onto plain white mugs, but today we had a client call us asking if they could order a number of yellow mugs with a full-colour design printed on them.

We've had a look around but as far as I can see, our options are:

- screenprinted spot-colour design on a yellow mug
- full-colour sublimation printing onto a white mug with a yellow handle

I've seen black mugs before with a white panel for sublimation printing, but not other colours.

Does anyone know of any other routes I could take to achieve this?

As far as I'm aware, they're just promotional mugs for a single event, not for resale or re-use, so I don't think they need to be dishwasher-proof or particularly hardy.

If anyone can help, I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

[Justin]

Welcome Phil What quantities are they looking for?

[BMCPhil]

Welcome Phil What quantities are they looking for?

Hi Justin. They need 150 - if we were going to be buying blanks and printing them ourselves we'd probably order 200 so that we had scope for failures and hopefully a few left over to do something with later, but obviously if we ended up getting someone else to print them for us then we'd just need the 150.

[mrs maggot]

magic tough do coloured mugs, and they print up very well http://www.themagictouch.co.uk/acatalog ... 2fBLK_2fPK

[BMCPhil]

magic tough do coloured mugs, and they print up very well http://www.themagictouch.co.uk/acatalog ... 2fBLK_2fPK

Hi, and thanks for the reply!


If I'm reading that correctly, these are for use with "white toner" laser printers only?


I have no experience of these sorts of printers. Is the printing process similar to using sublimation printers? Are there any specific printers that I should be looking at for this?