The cheapest thing on your marketing budget
The cheapest ad you'll ever run is already in your customer's hand.
Five cents more per cup. Every drink you sell leaves as a billboard.
- Proof in minutes
- Free setup at 15,000
- Printed in the USA
Sample brand · 16 oz clear · 2 spot inks
- 21%
- of all the coffee drunk in the US in the past day was cold.
- NCA · 1,882 US adults · June 2026
- 18%
- of US adults had a frozen blended coffee in the past week.
- NCA · 1,882 US adults · June 2026
- 38%
- of past-day coffee drinkers drank it away from home — the highest share since January 2020.
- NCA · 1,882 US adults · June 2026
- 40%
- of out-of-home buyers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear cold cup, 12 oz | 17.8¢ | 17.1¢ | −0.7¢ | 7,000 |
| Clear cold cup, 16 oz | 12.6¢ | 18¢ | +5.4¢ | 7,000 |
| Clear cold cup, 20 oz | 16.2¢ | 19.2¢ | +3¢ | 7,000 |
| Clear cold cup, 24 oz | 17.6¢ | 22.3¢ | +4.7¢ | 7,200 |
| Clear cold cup, 32 oz | 32.3¢ | 34.5¢ | +2.2¢ | 7,000 |
Both columns are the cup itself, so they compare like for like: plain prices are our own guest prices for the nearest equivalent cup we stock, 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, falls at every step of the run, and disappears entirely at 15,000. Sizes are matched by capacity, so a brand and a cup shape can differ between the two columns.
Nothing else reaches a person this cheaply
Every other channel charges you dollars to reach someone who might become a customer. Five cents puts your name in the hand of one who already is.
- One paid search click, all industries$5.42
- One paid search click, restaurants and food$2.05
- One direct mail piece, postage alone$0.26
- Your logo in one customer's hand$0.05
Scale: $0.00 to $5.42 per click, per piece, or per printed cup
These 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, a mailed postcard reaches a letterbox whether or not anyone opens it, and a printed cup is already in the hand of a customer who has paid. What they share is that each is what it costs to put your name in front of one person. Ours is the 16 oz printed cup at 18.0¢ less the 12.6¢ plain cup it replaces, at the 7,000 minimum — our largest premium, since every other size costs less to print. Direct mail is USPS EDDM Retail postage only, before printing or design. Click costs are the 2026 LocaliQ and WordStream search benchmarks, which also put a restaurant lead at $30.57 — a figure left off the chart because at that scale nothing else would be visible.
Your products are your billboard.
And on a clear cup the drink is the background, so we show the same artwork over three very different ones. We put your logo on a photograph of the exact cup you are buying, and you turn it around before you spend anything.
16 oz · over iced matcha
16 oz · over iced coffee
16 oz · over a berry smoothie
Happy customers
Bridge Street Wing & Burger print their two-colour mark on the 16 oz clear cup. These are their photographs, not ours, published with their permission.
Lunch service
Behind the bar
Two spot inks, up close
Will use again
“Quick communication with their team and got a great customized product at an affordable price. Cups are durable with a snug lid that snaps on easy and holds tight.”
Sizes made for cold drinks
Five sizes of clear PET, from an espresso tonic to a blended sharing cup — the same cup your customers already drink from, with your name on it.
| Size (capacity) | Millimetres | Case | Paper | What it holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 oz | 96.5 × 55.9 × 101.6 | 1,000 | clear | Espresso tonic, a short juice, a kids' cup |
| 16 oz | 97.8 × 63.5 × 127 | 1,000 | clear | The everyday iced coffee and cold brew |
| 20 oz | 97.8 × 63.5 × 139.7 | 1,000 | clear | Iced lattes, smoothies, iced tea |
| 24 oz | 97.8 × 63.5 × 165.1 | 600 | clear | Boba, lemonade, the big smoothie |
| 32 oz | 108 × 69.9 × 184.2 | 500 | clear | Sharing size and blended drinks |
What it costs
One spot ink on the 16 oz cup. Prices are per cup. The setup fee buys your printing plates, so it is a separate one-time charge that falls at every step of the run — and at 15,000 cups it is gone.
| Cups | Each | Setup | Cases | Cups subtotal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,000 | 18¢ | $175.00 | 7 | $1,260.00 |
| 8,000 | 18¢ | $125.00 | 8 | $1,440.00 |
| 10,000 | 18¢ | $75.00 | 10 | $1,800.00 |
| 12,000 | 18¢ | $25.00 | 12 | $2,160.00 |
| 15,000 | 18¢ | Free | 15 | $2,700.00 |
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 7,000 cups, about 28 days. Lead times are estimates, not guaranteed delivery dates.
Need more than 24,000 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
- FlexographicSpot inks on a printing plate, not a four-colour build.
- Colours
- Up to 5 spot inksPantone-matched, mixed to your brand colour.
- Gradients
- Not printedA fade is laid down as a flat tint.
- Registration
- ± 1.5 mmHow closely one ink lands on the one before it.
- Ink coverage
- Up to 50% of the panelNo flood coats or solid backgrounds — on a clear cup the drink does that job.
- Wrap gap
- 3.2 mmThe unprinted seam where the wrap meets itself. Keep artwork clear of it.
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
- 5 pt · 7 pt reversedReversed 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
- ClearClear, so whatever you pour into it becomes the background your logo prints onto.
- Construction
- Single wall, clear PETThe same rigid plastic as a water bottle, so it stays clear when it is cold.
- End of life
- Recyclable, not compostablePET is among the most widely accepted plastics in kerbside recycling. It does not compost, and we do not claim it does.
Off the line
- Proof
- E-signed before the press startsEmailed within minutes of checkout. Nothing prints unsigned.
- Lead time
- About 28 daysFrom proof approval. An estimate, not a guaranteed date.
- Case pack
- 1,000 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.
Make your brand visible everywhere.
No rep, no quote, no waiting for a callback. Upload your logo and see it on the real cup.
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.
- USPS — Every Door Direct Mail Retail, USPS Marketing Flats, $0.26 per piece (postage only, usps.com).
- 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, cost per lead $30.57.
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