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The coffee joke under a heat-sensitive black coating on a high gloss body. This is the one combination in our range where the mechanism and the joke are saying the same thing: the mug does not work until it has been filled, which is the entire premise of the design.
Cold, it is a plain black mug with nothing on it. Add coffee and the coating clears from the base upward, and the wording and the photograph appear over the next few seconds rather than all at once. A joke about needing fuel to function, printed on an object that literally does not function until it is fuelled, is the kind of alignment most novelty products never manage. It is also the version people remember after the first morning, because the point lands physically rather than being read off the side of a cup.
A high gloss black body behaves like dark glass, holding a reflection of the room when the mug is at rest. It is the finish that looks like a deliberate object on a shelf rather than a plain dark cup, which matters if the mug will be seen as much as used. The cost is a bright highlight that stays after the reveal and travels across the lettering as the mug is turned, and the matte version removes it at the price of looking plainer when idle.
Everything here is seen through the coating, so a well lit picture surfaces and a dim one does not. That is a real constraint on a design where the funniest photographs are often badly lit early morning ones. Our designers raise the contrast file by file and will tell you if an image falls below the point where adjustment helps rather than printing it and letting you find out.
The coating is opaque below about body temperature and reseals as the drink cools, so the mug is blank again before it is empty. The same joke is printed on matte heat-reveal black, on plain white in three capacities, on a coloured handle body, with a heart-shaped handle and with thank-you wording.
A microwave does not affect it. Use the top rack in the dishwasher. Hand washing is gentler on the print than a cycle. The photograph goes on by sublimation printing. Colour Enhancement costs $1.99 per image.
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Our custom mug printing process uses the latest in sublimation printing technology to ensure your favorite photos never peel or fade in the microwave or dishwasher. Add up to 5 photos, align them just the way you like, add text, then get ready to sip in style.
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