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Four photographs under a heat-sensitive black coating on an eleven ounce mug, arranged as a grid rather than a row. At this count almost the entire printable surface is image, which means the contrast between the mug cold and the mug hot is close to total: a plain black object becomes a sheet of photographs.
With one picture, the reveal uncovers a picture. With four, it uncovers the whole mug. There is very little black ground left between the frames once the coating clears, so what you watch is not an image appearing in a space but the entire surface changing from one thing into another. That is the argument for four over two or three, and it is also the argument against it if what you actually want is one photograph seen properly.
Each image gets roughly a quarter of the usable area, which on a mug of this size is small. Faces survive it; wide group shots and landscapes do not, because the detail that made them worth keeping is gone at that size. The useful rule is one subject per frame. Four also suits sets that are naturally four: the seasons, four siblings, four years of a degree, four pets.
Glossy black holds a reflection and reads as dark glass before the reveal, where the matte version in the same range is flatter and slightly sharper when the images come through. Eleven ounces is the everyday size, the one most cupboards hold. Send four photographs; our designers crop each to the frame and lift the contrast, which matters more here than on the single image version because a dark picture in a small frame under a black coating is the hardest case this product has. The five image version fits one more and makes each smaller again.
The usual reason is that the set is already four and splitting it would feel arbitrary. Four grandchildren, four years, four dogs.
Wash it by hand, never in a dishwasher. Keep it out of the microwave. Printing is done by sublimation beneath the coating. Colour Enhancement is an optional extra, $1.99 per image. Only a hand wash is safe for this coating.
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How to Create Your Own Magic Coffee Mug
We create each custom magic photo mug using the latest in sublimation printing technology to ensure your favorite photos never peel or fade. Add your photo(s), align them just the way you like, and add text, then get ready to sip in style.
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