1. Understanding Screen Printing
for ceramics, glassware, stainless steel/acrylic,
porcelain and plastic.
A. Silk Screen printing for ceramic
requires the product to be kiln fired at high temperatures.
Having mug kiln fired, makes the print permanent and
ever lasting. Printing close/tight registrations is
our specialty at Great-mugs.us. Standard mug printing
industry normally uses the direct screen print method.
Direct screen printing limits your artwork to at least
a 1/8” tolerance within color gaps. Here at Great-mugs.us
we offers two types of printing methods, direct standard
screen printing and also precision registration &
detail printing. Precision & quality screen printing
prices are additional $0.30. Please read our artwork
category to see what category your artwork fall into.
B. For precision printing you must
inform us, otherwise we’ll choose which ever method
is most convenient for us. High definition printing
normally cost $0.30 more per product. Normal Wear
and Tear policy applies to standard direct printed
glass products.
C. All stainless steel travel mug,
water sports bottles, and certain glass products are
recommended for hand wash only. Not microwaveable
nor dishwasher safe.
2. Knowing your colors and
inks.
A. Printing certain ceramic colors
may be difficult. Color such as pink, purple, magentas
tends to shift shades when firing. We try our best
to match your specific PMS color as close as possible.
If you are concerned about color matching then I suggest
you order a preproduction sample before the run of
your entire order. Preproduction samples prices are
$150.00.
B. Printing a light imprint ink on
colored coffee mug can be tricky. Some ceramic inks
when printed on a dark mug will sometimes have an
opacity. A white imprint on a black mug may seem to
have a look where the white will be very light grey.
Which in reality it is actually white, but the dark
mug will give the print an illusion of an color change.
Dark imprints on a dark mug will make the imprint
color even darker. The best way to go about choosing
your imprint colors is by having the colors opposite.
White on black or black on white, etc...
B. Non permanent ink can achieve
difficult colors such as bright pink, purple, teal,
magenta, etc. Non permanent ink only applies to certain
glasses, stainless steel travel mug, water bottles,
or plastic items. We do not use non-permanent ink
for ceramic goods.
If you have any questions regarding
our printing methods and quality please give us a
call. Note that we offer high quality detail printing,
tight registration printing, high lpi printing, quality
color matching ability which no other companies offers.
We are the DIRECT MANUFACTUER
