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A magic mug works on a simple piece of chemistry: a heat-sensitive black layer printed over a full colour image, opaque when cold and clear once the ceramic warms. Magical 3D mugs hide the pictures until the drink goes in. This is the matte version carrying three photographs, which is the count where the layout stops being a pair and starts reading as a sequence.
Because the pictures are spread around the circumference you never see all three at once. You see one, turn the mug, see the next. That arrival in sequence is what makes three different from two, and it suits sets with an order to them: three stages of something, three children, the same place at three different ages. A set with no order still prints perfectly well, but the layout is doing less work for you.
A matte black coating does not mirror the room. On the glossy version a ceiling light sits on the curve as a bright band, and when the images surface they share the mug with that highlight. Matte scatters the light instead, so the black stays even and the picture edges read a little harder against it. The practical result is that three smaller frames hold up better on matte than they do on gloss, because nothing is competing with them for attention.
Hot liquid warms the wall of the mug and the coating retreats upward from the base over a few seconds. It is not an instant switch, it is a rise. As the drink cools the black returns and the pictures go back into hiding, which is why a mug left standing goes dark before it is empty. The images themselves are never going anywhere, since they are printed underneath in full colour and the coating is the only thing that changes.
Send three pictures, ideally with one clear subject each and broadly similar brightness. Our designers adjust contrast frame by frame, but a very dark photograph will always surface less convincingly than a bright one, and a set that mixes the two reveals unevenly.
Only a hand wash is safe for this coating. Microwave use will damage the coating. The heat-reveal print is applied by sublimation. Colour Enhancement is an optional extra, $1.99 per image.
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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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