Greetings,
I hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm currently looking into making my own mugs as the POD supplier of my printed mugs is making too many order mistakes and taking way too long to ship causing me lots of headaches. I am looking at the Sawgrass 400 or 800 printer not sure if that makes a difference with blanks but thought I would mention it also looking at the Knight DK3 press. So far I found that my supplier of printed mugs uses Mako Mugs to print on. I have had others tell me they use Orca's, Cactus, and I have also seen Dolphin as well and some that just say FDA Approved Hard Coated.
What is the difference between all of these (Mako, Orca, Cactus, Dolphin, Other? The Orcas seem the most expensive while the Mako's seem relatively inexpensive but is their a huge difference between them with quality, durability, print etc.?
I am also seeing public pricing as I cannot find B2B type suppliers where you sign up to see pricing instead of it being public. I would assume better pricing would be provided by outfits like this does anyone know of blank mug suppliers based in the U.S. ?
Thank You
SDT