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Hi Everyone

Just a quick question. I have been looking at the numerous different mug presses available and noticed some are good for one style mug, and some can be changed over to do different size/style mugs. What are your thoughts on the inter-changeable presses and what is your best selling mug size? Just curious really as there is so many options available. By buying a press that can only do say 11oz mugs surely you are limiting your selling audience?

Standard presses will press 10 and 11oz mugs and these are regarded as the best selling sizes. Adkins do a twin mug press so you could add a 6oz blanket to one of them for China style mugs.

Get some samples and choose your favourite mug style and then buy your press.

Most good mug presses are interchangeable between the various mug styles available, but in direct answer to your specific question the 10oz and 11oz Durham mugs are the most popular lines. This is probably more to do with cost over anything else though.

GoonerGary;83646 wrote:Standard presses will press 10 and 11oz mugs and these sizes are regarded as the best selling sizes. Adkins do a twin mug press so you could add a 6oz blanket to one of them for China style mugs.

Get some samples and choose your favourite mug style and then buy your press.

Thanks gooner, I wasn't 100 percent sure if 10 and 11oz mugs could be done on the same heat blanket. Ive been looking at the Df1 Genius mug press from Bms as this gives you the option of buying other blankets at a later stage if you wish.

socialgiraffe;83653 wrote:Most good mug presses are interchangeable between the various mug styles available, but in direct answer to your specific question the 10oz and 11oz Durham mugs are the most popular lines. This is probably more to do with cost over anything else though.

Hi social, the press im looking at is the Df1 genius from bms. Apparently this press comes with standard heat blanket but can be fully upgradeable to thier Df14 press which does latte mugs etc. If the 10/11oz mugs are the most popular then im happy knowing I wouldnt need to go out and buy the Df14 first as last as I could always buy the different wraps to go on the Df1 at a later stage

The thing about printing mugs is that it requires very precise set up when setting the pressure of the heat blanket against the mug.

So you wouldn't give customers a choice of 10oz/ 11oz or latte if you only had the one press. Choose either 10 or 11 then I'd have a separate press for the latte. You'll only waste a few mugs trying to get it right. Perhaps with practice you'll get to know your press inside out.

Ignoring the above and if you like the idea of choice, have a look at the Adkins Studio Multi mug. Add VAT onto that price, (the cost of extra blankets) and signing up for forum membership gets you 10% off that. I own the standard studio mug press, it's first class!

http://www.xpres.co.uk/p-8242-studio-mu ... aspx?p=397

Although your DF1 is much cheaper, the warranty is only 3 months which doesn't inspire confidence, the Adkins is a year. How long does a heat blanket last....who knows???

You don't want to be faffing about swapping over different size blankets back and forth - you'll end up wasting more mugs and time trying to get it set right each time. You want a different press for each size/shape of mug you press, although if they are all the same model of press, then you have some redundancy in terms of spare parts for the future, if one does go wrong.

GoonerGary;83666 wrote:The thing about printing mugs is that it requires very precise set up when setting the pressure of the heat blanket against the mug.

So you wouldn't give customers a choice of 10oz/ 11oz or latte if you only had the one press. Choose either 10 or 11 then I'd have a separate press for the latte. You'll only waste a few mugs trying to get it right. Perhaps with practice you'll get to know your press inside out.

Ignoring the above and if you like the idea of choice, have a look at the Adkins Studio Multi mug. Add VAT onto that price, (the cost of extra blankets) and signing up for forum membership gets you 10% off that. I own the standard studio mug press, it's first class!

http://www.xpres.co.uk/p-8242-studio-mu ... aspx?p=397

Although your DF1 is much cheaper, the warranty is only 3 months which doesn't inspire confidence, the Adkins is a year. How long does a heat blanket last....who knows???

Thanks for sharing your knowledge gooner, I hadnt thought about the possible wastage of mugs etc everytime a change over was done. I will definately look into the membership for the forum and also take a look at the Adkins press. Ive read a lot of good things about them. Cheers

pisquee;83669 wrote:You don't want to be faffing about swapping over different size blankets back and forth - you'll end up wasting more mugs and time trying to get it set right each time. You want a different press for each size/shape of mug you press, although if they are all the same model of press, then you have some redundancy in terms of spare parts for the future, if one does go wrong.

Thats a very good point pisquee that hadnt occured to me. So glad I joined this forum now as the help from everyone is second to none. Thank you

We do wholesale designer mostly (with some retail), rather than personalised, and find that less choice works best - we have a big enough range of products to choose from, that having different shapes/types of mugs jut complicates things, and confuses buyers - buyers want to easily see what you offer and then order, the more you can help them choose and make their job easier the better, give them too many options and choice and they get put off buying. Buyers are people obviously, so I would expect that there is a similar psychology for a person out shopping for a mug, and a shop buyer looking to buy 100 mugs fo their next few months.