Custom printing without the BS
Your cup goes where your shop cannot.
Over half your out-of-home customers order at a window, and a record number order on an app. They never see your room, your staff or your signage. The cup is the only branded thing they hold — and your name on it only costs a few cents more.
- Proof in minutes
- Full colour, both sides, same price
- Printed in the USA
Sample brand · 12 oz white · full colour
- 66%
- of US adults drank coffee in the past day.
- NCA · 1,882 US adults · June 2026
- 38%
- of them drank it away from home — the highest share since January 2020.
- NCA · 1,882 US adults · June 2026
- 55%
- of out-of-home coffee buyers ordered at a drive-thru window rather than inside.
- NCA · 1,882 US adults · June 2026
- 40%
- ordered through a mobile app — a record. Your cup reaches them; your room never does.
- NCA · 1,882 US adults · June 2026
Increase your brand's visibility
You're already buying the cups. A few cents more puts your name in the hand of every customer who walks out with one.
| What you buy today | Plain | With your logo | Difference | MOQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Double-wall hot cup, 8 oz | 19¢ | 35¢ | +16¢ | 1,000 |
| Double-wall hot cup, 12 oz | 22.1¢ | 35¢ | +12.9¢ | 1,000 |
| Double-wall hot cup, 16 oz | 24.1¢ | 39¢ | +14.9¢ | 800 |
| Double-wall hot cup, 20 oz | 25.3¢ | 42¢ | +16.7¢ | 800 |
Both columns are the cup itself, so they compare like for like: plain prices are our own guest prices for the same cup, read live from the catalog, and printed prices are the per-cup price at each size's own minimum. The one-time setup fee is not spread into either — it is charged once per design, per size, shown in full in the price table below, and never charged again when you reorder the same design in the same size at 5,000 or more.
This is advertising, and it is priced like nothing else you buy
Every other channel charges you to reach a stranger who might become a customer. A printed cup is already in the hand of one who is.
- One paid search click, all industries$5.42
- One paid search click, restaurants and food$2.05
- Your logo in one customer's hand$0.07
Scale: $0.00 to $5.42 per click, or per printed cup
A click and a printed cup do not buy the same thing, and we are not pretending otherwise: a click is an attempt to reach somebody who has not bought from you, while a printed cup is already in the hand of somebody who has. What they share is that both are what it costs to put your name in front of one person. Ours is the 12 oz reorder price of 29¢ less the 22.1¢ plain cup it replaces, at 5,000 cups, where the setup fee is waived entirely. Click costs are the 2026 LocaliQ and WordStream search benchmarks.
Check out some examples of printed cups.
Not a flat dieline. We put your artwork on a photograph of the exact cup you are buying, and you turn it around before you spend anything.
12 oz · on the counter
12 oz · takeaway carrier
12 oz · full colour, one side
Sample brand, composited by the design studio from real artwork on photographs of the cups we print.
Sizes made for a coffee menu
Four sizes of double-wall cup on bright white stock — insulated, so they need no sleeve, and the truest surface we print on.
What it costs
Full colour, one side or both, on the 12 oz cup. Prices are per cup. The setup fee is a separate one-time charge, shown in full rather than buried in the unit price — and a reorder of the same artwork in the same size, at 5,000 or more, never pays it again.
| Cups | Each | Setup | Cases | Cups subtotal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | 35¢ | $125.00 | 2 | $350.00 |
| 2,500 | 35¢ | $125.00 | 5 | $875.00 |
| 5,000 | 29¢ | $125.00 | 10 | $1,450.00 |
| 10,000 | 29¢ | $125.00 | 20 | $2,900.00 |
| 12,000 | 29¢ | $125.00 | 24 | $3,480.00 |
Per-cup prices and the subtotal exclude the one-time setup fee, which is listed separately above, as well as shipping and tax. All of it is quoted live from the same engine as checkout. Minimum 1,000 cups, about 21 days. Lead times are estimates, not guaranteed delivery dates.
Need more than 12,000 cups? The price keeps falling past the quantities the studio checks out on its own. Ask us for a volume quote.
Quality is non-negotiable
The tolerances our press actually holds, and what your file needs to meet them. These are the same numbers the studio checks your artwork against — nothing here is a promise the proof will not keep.
On the press
- Process
- DigitalPrinted direct in four-colour process. No plate to make or store.
- Colours
- Up to 4 coloursMatched to a Pantone reference and printed as the closest process build. The number of colours does not change the price.
- Gradients
- Not printedA fade is laid down as a flat tint.
- Registration
- ± 1.5 mmHow closely one ink lands on the one before it.
- Print panels
- Front, back, or bothTwo panels cost the same as one, and so does a fourth colour.
Your artwork
- Preferred file
- Vector SVGPrints sharpest at any size. Send what you have and we trace it.
- Raster minimum
- 300 ppiMeasured at final print size, not at the size of the file.
- Smallest type
- 7 ptReversed type needs more room because the ink closes in on it.
- Thinnest line
- 0.18 mmAnything finer can break up on press.
- Keep-out margin
- 4 mmClear space held at every trim edge and fold.
The cup
- Stock
- WhiteBright white, the truest surface we print on.
- Construction
- Double wallInsulated by the cup itself, so it needs no sleeve.
- Material
- PE-lined paperboardPaperboard with a polyethylene lining, which is what makes it hold a hot drink.
Off the line
- Proof
- E-signed before the press startsEmailed within minutes of checkout. Nothing prints unsigned.
- Lead time
- About 21 daysFrom proof approval. An estimate, not a guaranteed date.
- Case pack
- 500 per case
- Printed in
- USAYour price does not move when a tariff does.
Questions we get asked
What Our Customers Say
We not only want to make our customers happy, our goal is to give you the best experience you've ever had.
We print these too
Same studio, same proof, same press. Every one shows its own minimum, because that is what decides whether it is worth your click.
No rep. No quote. No waiting.
Upload your logo, see it on the real cup, and approve a proof minutes after checkout.
Sources
- National Coffee Association — 2026 National Coffee Data Trends Fall Report, conducted by Dig Insights, 1,882 US adults aged 18 and over, fielded 8–24 June 2026.
- LocaliQ and WordStream — 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks: average cost per click across thousands of Google Ads and Microsoft Ads campaigns, all industries $5.42, restaurants and food $2.05.
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