3D mug printing machine

Sublimation Mug Printer

Printing mugs and t-shirts is easy and inexpensive. This is due to a simple technological process, small material investments, quick payback. To succeed, it is necessary to rent a suitable premises, work out a marketing network, and purchase special equipment.

Sublimation printing on a mug

Prints applied on mugs turn ordinary tableware into a promotional souvenir and a gift for a loved one. To achieve high quality printing, you should use professional printers. They may differ in price, power and equipment. The range of machines is quite wide. Equipment is chosen based on the method of processing products. The image can be made through silk screen printing, hot decal and sublimation printing.

Drawing images on mugs

The latter method is used more often than others. It is used to fulfill both private and corporate orders. This business can be done even at home. Thanks to sublimation, a good quality drawing is obtained that stays on the mug without fading or erasing. The source can be either a regular photograph or a graphic image.

Hardware

Items required include:

• PC with graphics editor installed;
• laser or ink jet printer for mugs and t-shirts;
• heat press;
• scanner.

Particular attention should be paid to the quality of the consumable. On the market you can find many models of equipment, each of which has certain characteristics. The thermopress in appearance is a device equipped with a rounded heating element. The machine does not require special care.

Printing equipment

Depending on how the base is attached, the printer for sublimation printing on mugs can be horizontal or vertical. The first variety is considered universal. Through such devices, you can decorate standard-sized glasses, vases, glasses, beer glasses.

How it works

Image transfer machines usually work on the inkjet principle. They are filled with sublimation ink. The mugs on which they plan to apply a picture may differ in structure and shape. The image is created using a graphic editor, then it is transferred to the database. The working part of the printer consists of a device for gripping dishes.

Design for printing on a mug

The sublimation method is used to process souvenirs. The technology used is simple. Its only drawback is the cost of the equipment.

Printing procedure for a mug

To achieve the desired result, proceed as follows:

1. Print the original image.
2. Waiting for it to dry.
3. Fix the paper with a special adhesive tape.
4. The future souvenir is placed in a heat press.
5. Take out the mug and remove the original from it.

The product is kept in the device for several minutes. It is heated up to 200 degrees Celsius. Violation of the process is fraught with the appearance of blurry or white spots.

Putting the mug into the equipment

Sublimation ink has a liquid consistency at the time of refilling. When the equipment is heated, they become gaseous. Due to this, the coloring matter at the molecular level penetrates into the structure of the product. After the surface of the souvenir comes into contact with cold air, the image will finally be fixed.

Printers for printing on mugs are functional and budget. The latter include devices in which only one product can be placed. They are often used to make souvenirs at home. Functional devices have an extensive working area. They are designed to create multiple mugs. The system is complemented by timers and sensors that are responsible for temperature control.

Printed pattern on a mug

A separate category includes kits that include the printer itself and everything you need to work with it (including cups made of different materials). With the help of functional devices, you can make unique products for your own pleasure and profit.

Choosing a printer for decorating mugs and t-shirts

Sublimation printing devices are used to create souvenirs. Their production is carried out by companies that have proven themselves from the best side.

Printer for sublimation printing

When choosing a printer, you should decide on the following characteristics:

• minimum drop volume - more than 4 pl;
• high quality consumables;
• optimum print speed;
• availability of several work formats;
• sublimation ink composition;
• low noise threshold.

Name mugs

Thanks to professional equipment, finished products are of high quality and reliable. A number of 3D inkjet printers are represented by Transfer Kit, Geo Knight, Grafalex, Mug King, Ming Tai, WorkHorse, Vektor, Bulros, Epson and Lawson models. Mugs can be made on 3D printers. In this case, the process of making souvenirs is somewhat more complicated, but the result justifies all the material costs.

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I once had a crazy idea to make a mug out of PLA that won't bend and hold hot coffee or tea. Earlier I saw a post about a pla cup and how it bends and softens when boiling water is in it. Based on what he saw, he decided to model a thick mug in the style of a thermos, i.e. 2 walls, and between them there is air, with the expectation that, apart from hot liquid, nothing will put pressure on the inner walls, and since air prevails between the inner and outer walls, the outer walls will not heat up enough to wrinkle in the hands. So, for starters, a thermos mug was modeled, if you can call it that.

It consists of 2 parts, the thermos itself and the lid-mug, they are threaded and twisted. I modeled in a self-cad, it turned out pretty quickly and simply. Then I printed the lid on creatbot mini, natural pla plastic bestfilament (I considered the absence of dyes in plastic important), cura slicer.

print specifications:

0.4mm nozzle

0.2mm layer

1.6mm wall thickness

20% coverage

after 16 hours of printing, in other words the next day, I decided to immediately test the cap and poured into it boiling water. The result is as follows: the outer walls warmed up after 10 minutes, but not enough to be soft, the bottom warmed up faster and became a little soft, after which the boiling water cooled down.

then it turned out that I made a mistake with the thread and I had to print the cover of the mug again.

This is where the adventure began, or the problem was in the printer or in the plastic, or both, I didn’t fully figure it out, the plastic choked during printing very badly.

It is possible that it is already old, and there was a problem of fluid leakage - cracks between layers and pour lines. The solution was to dry out the coil and ream some of the Teflon tubing in the hot end. after which there was a small problem, in some places the distance between the lines in the horizontal plane, namely at the bottom is too large, as a result of which the bottom leaks. With the help of coffee, it was possible to find and show leaks

Here I got into the self-slicer, I remember exactly there is an opportunity to reduce the distance. (top/bottom line width)

After which the thermos was printed, the thread had to be developed a little about 10 minutes of work with a file, and here it is the result.

well, a few links, suddenly someone will come in handy on Thingiverse - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2275179

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