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Think about the last time you used a travel mug or bought a drink from Starbucks; chances are the bottle was a tapered cylinder, meaning the shape gets narrower at the end. Tapered drinkware is becoming increasingly popular, yet printing custom, quality, and full-color images onto them have not been an easy feat. Due to

Pad printing inks are used by pad printing machines to print images onto different surfaces. There are many variations of inks, depending on what surface, color, or grade is desired. Inks are identified using a formula that expresses the specifics purposes of that particular ink. How to Identify your Ink Series Pad printing inks are identified

Inkcups Now is happy to introduce the MegaLAZE pad printing laser plate material. Formerly known as Ultra Plates from Markem, these high-performance aluminum-backed plates are a great addition to Inkcups Now’s laser plate line. Markem has recently discontinued the laser plate material and Inkcups Now saw a great opportunity in adopting the new material. The MegaLAZE

We just received a great email from one of our newest customers that we just needed to share! Dennis was visiting the Inkcups Now Headquarters because he recently purchased an X2® Flatbed UV Printer (please note the X2® was discontinued in April 2023, replaced by the X5®). They spent about 10 days at our facility

Printing on clear or reflective parts with your Xjet or X5 flatbed UV inkjet printer can be a little challenging. Accidentally curing the ink to the bottom of a print head may require that print head to be replaced and will no doubt slow production. To avoid this, here are some extra precautionary methods that

Inkcups is excited to introduce order confirmation and tracking through email! The newest technological revolution? No, but I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that you will no longer sit in doubt waiting, hoping, praying that yours isn’t the order that got away. Now you’ll know right away where your digital & pad printing order