When it comes to plastic cups and how plastic cups are made it actually makes a difference if it is disposable or reusable plastic cups. You might also know reusable plastic cups as hard plastic cups. The type of plastic cup does not only influences how they have produced but also their environmental effects and what they are normally used for. The plastic cups are made through a process called injection molding, where the plastic materials are mixed with liquids and inserted into the template for plastic cups, that determines the size and thickness of the cups.

The injection molding process starts with the raw material being put into a machine called a hopper. The machine actually just consistently mixes the kind of plastic with other materials needed to form the end resulted. When the materials have been mixed in will be poured into the templates and when it has the right thickness and size it will stay in the template and cool of. The only ling lefts are for the plastic cups to be slowly heated to remove the cast from the surface.

Printing on plastic cups

To-go drinks are becoming a more influential part of our lives, and it is also becoming a part of many more cafes, juice bars, and etc. selection. Why it is also important for the small juice bar to differentiate from the rest of the competitors. Printing on plastic cups is a great way to do that, it might actually also be the easiest one because the juice bar already needs the plastic cups for selling them to-go. We help a lot of customers get print on their plastic cups, and we work with a couple of manufacturers who have different printing methods for the plastic cups – We will go through the different printing methods on plastic cups, they are flexo-print, offset print, tampon print, and digital print.

Colours used on plastic cups

Pantone colours - The reason why Pantone colours are the only colour scheme that can be printed on plastic cups is that Pantone colours are not mixed when the print is put on. Since the Pantone colour scheme consists of 1867 specific colours, the colours are added directly in the area where they are needed in the print. The reason why it is important that the colours are not mixed when added onto the print is that the plastic cups are transparent and if the colours are mixed they will become unclear. This is also the reason why when buying plastic cup that you have to pay extra for each colour you add in your design.

How are plastic cups transported?