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What kind of printer to print photos on coffee mugs?


2 years 3 months ago #730051 by Sandy Smith Photos
If I wanted to print photos on coffee mugs, which printer would that be?  All my searches keep bringing up Shutterfly and others who offer the print service.  

Would you happen to know?  Thank you
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2 years 3 months ago - 2 years 3 months ago #730066 by CharleyL
It's usually done this way, Do a Google search to find sources for the machinery. Some are much simpler than this, but for less capacity.



My mom was a ceramics instructor and used special ceramic paint to hand paint coffee and other mugs, then re-fire them in her kiln to permanently bond the painted patterns into the glaze of the mug or item.

Most any dye-sub photo printer should be able to print the photo for the transfer process. You will need to create a mirror image though. Many printers have this capability in their software, or a photo editing program can be used to flip the image. 

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2 years 3 months ago #730257 by Mayo
How many mugs are you talking about?  Wouldn't it be cheaper to just order from one of the dozens of companies that do this for the cheap?  
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2 years 3 months ago #730479 by Hoss

CharleyL wrote: It's usually done this way, Do a Google search to find sources for the machinery. Some are much simpler than this, but for less capacity.



My mom was a ceramics instructor and used special ceramic paint to hand paint coffee and other mugs, then re-fire them in her kiln to permanently bond the painted patterns into the glaze of the mug or item.

Most any dye-sub photo printer should be able to print the photo for the transfer process. You will need to create a mirror image though. Many printers have this capability in their software, or a photo editing program can be used to flip the image. 

Charley



Interesting, I had no clue they had even small machines like this that could be used in a home.   
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2 years 3 months ago #730506 by CharleyL
This doesn't actually print the photo. It transfers it from a special paper that gets the image printed on it (mirror image) from a computer photo printer using Dye Sub ink. Once printed on this special paper, you then wrap the paper with the image around the coffee mug and place it into one of these machines that heats and transfers the photo image to the coffee mug. The link was intended to show that such a thing existed. There may be other cheaper or more expensive ways to do this now. The first that I saw was a band that you placed the printed image into and then clamped this band around the coffee mug. You then placed the coffee mug into an oven to do the heat transfer. With many of these clamps and a big oven, you could do many at a time. What I saw was 20 years ago. I'm certain that there are other and better ways available now. A Google search should find them.

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