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Personalised mugs and coasters

Mugs and coasters with your own pictures and words. Choose what you'd like, add your pictures, drag them where you want them and turn it around to check. What you see is roughly what gets pressed.

From £13 including UK delivery
£13 one picture and words, on one side
£15 two pictures, or words on the opposite side to the picture
£16 full wrap all the way round

Coloured handle and inside +60p · colour-changing +£1. Two or more to the same address works out a good deal cheaper.

The set: 4 mugs + 4 matching MDF coasters — £47
£55 bought separately. One parcel, one design across the lot (or mix them).

What would you like?

Your pictures

Drag them around the strip below to place them. The strip is the mug unrolled flat.

Drop pictures here or click to choose — JPG or PNG, as many as you like
won't press here prints here Drag to move · pull the corner to resize

Drag the words to move them, pull the corner to resize. Click words on the strip to change what they say, the font or the colour.

The mug

Standard 11oz — the usual mug size, 9.5 cm tall.

Or pick any colour — white

White is the printed surface itself, so it presses cleanest. A background colour is ink like everything else — strong colours work better than pale washes. We also keep it well clear of the handle, rim and base, where pressure is least even — that's the white margin you'll see around a coloured background on the strip.

£13.00
including UK delivery
One picture, plain white The simplest to press, so it's the cheapest.

The postage and the setup are the same whether we send one or six, so extras cost a lot less.

We'll send you a proper mock-up before it's pressed. We lay your pictures out at full print size, check them over, and email you the finished artwork to approve.

If anything won't work we'll tell you then — a picture that's too small will print soft, and some colours come out deeper on a mug than they look on a screen. We'll say what we'd change, or suggest a different picture, and you can decide. Nothing is printed until you say yes, and nothing is charged if you'd rather not go ahead.

Your details

Drag to turn it around

What sublimation is, and what it can't do

The ink turns into a gas and bonds into the surface coating rather than sitting on top. Nothing to peel, crack or wash off — but it comes with two hard limits.

It only works on white or very light surfaces. The ink is see-through, so there's no white to print with. That's why a plain black mug can't be printed — the colour-changing mug is the exception: its black coating fades when hot to show a white surface underneath.
It only bonds to a coated surface. Our mugs are made for it — an ordinary mug from a cupboard wouldn't take the ink at all.

Why there's a border round the print

The press can't hold even pressure right where the handle joins, or where the mug curves away at the rim and the foot — print there comes out patchy. So there's a margin on all four sides, shown shaded on the strip. Pictures can sit right up to it, just not across it.

Drinkware we've made

Example designs and photographs of things we've made. We'd rather show you ours than a stock picture of somebody else's. Tap a picture to see it bigger.

Example: three views of a mug with a gold-framed initial and name
Example design
Example: three views of a mug with a leopard print initial and name
Example design