Custom Printed Cups for Cafés

A common café setup is 8oz and 12oz for everyday hot drinks, with 4oz for espresso and 16oz for large or iced serves. Add 22oz or 24oz only if you sell large cold drinks.

Our lids come in PS (polystyrene), pulp and PLA. Add them with the Lids option on each cup's product page. Every size, its volume and a measured drawing are in our cup size guide.

Simple Print puts your logo on a white cup in CMYK with a matte finish. It's our budget option, and colours can look slightly faded. It comes on every cup size, from 250 cups.

Full Colour Print covers the whole cup edge to edge in full CMYK with a semi-gloss finish. It comes on 6oz to 16oz cups, from 250 cups on 8oz, 12oz and 16oz. Choose it if your design has a pattern, an illustration or a background colour that wraps around the cup.

There's no white or metallic ink on any print type: white areas of your design are the cup itself. For runs of 10,000 cups or more, Wholesale Print matches 1 to 5 Pantone colours; see events and wholesale.

A compostable cup doesn't automatically go in the green bin. In NSW, FOGO bins take no compostable cups, and Victorian state guidance says compostable cups don't go in FOGO either. Check with your council, or see our cup rules by state.

Trading in SA or WA? We don't supply PE-lined cups or plastic lids into either state. For SA orders we add the required home or industrially compostable marking to your cup artwork, and WA lids must be plastic-free fibre, so WA orders get pulp lids. Our materials and certifications guide explains each lining.

Single wall cups are one layer of lined paperboard. They're light, cost-effective and come in every size from 4oz to 24oz.

Double wall cups add a second outer wall that insulates the drink, so the cup is comfortable to hold without a sleeve. They come in 8oz, 12oz and 16oz, with a PE or compostable (AS4736) lining, or home compostable (AS5810) on request with Simple Print or Wholesale Print.

Lids follow the cup size, not the wall type, so an 8oz single wall and an 8oz double wall cup take the same lid. You can run single wall for iced drinks and espresso, and double wall for hot takeaway, without stocking extra lids.

We keep your artwork on file for reorders, so you only get a new proof if something changes. With a business account you can also reorder past orders in one click, track orders and download invoices.

Printed cups are made to order, so reorder before you run low. Standard production is 10 business days from proof approval. Approve before 2:30pm (Melbourne time) and production starts the next business day; after 2:30pm, it starts the business day after that. Delivery after dispatch typically takes 1–2 business days to VIC, NSW and the ACT, 2–3 to QLD and SA, 3–4 to WA, and up to 6 to TAS and the NT. Regional areas can take longer.

To work out your weekly use, multiply takeaway drinks per day by trading days, then split the total by size. Our guide on how many coffee cups a café needs each week walks through the sum and a reorder point.

This year we're closed from Friday 18 December to Friday 8 January (see Christmas trading), so order earlier around then.