The problem with cheap mugs and cheap ink

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Maybe we need to revive the test done on mugs/coatings by a member here a few years ago on the mugs available now.

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Pisq.
Didn't that end with Justin pulling it because suppliers were getting stroppy?

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Yeah it did ... it still exists on the forum member's own website. No reason it couldn't be done again and hosted somewhere else!

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Assuming one cycle per day, that's five years (which I'm told is longer than the average relationship!)

It's longer than some of my marriages.

I think using coarse stainless steel scouring pads and dish washers is a little harsh on something sith a coating, but a lot of customers have no idea how the coating is put onto the mug in the first place. More mugs are probably chipped ot broken than have the colours washed out. I mean, these things are decorative, but I don't expect everything I buy as a souvenir or novelty to last several years of daily use. I just hope to get more life out of them than the kids get out of their Christmas toys, most of which cost far more than a mug and seem to last for only days or weeks.

[GoonerGary]

Pisq.
Didn't that end with Justin pulling it because suppliers were getting stroppy?

It's a review based world now. It's us that take a serious hit when a customer leaves a negative review for a mug a supplier sold us. So why should here be any different? It's up to the suppliers to inform the manufacturers of problems.

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but I don't expect everything I buy as a souvenir or novelty to last several years of daily use.

But if you're producing products for a designer brand or an artist, and they are charging premium prices for their products in shops, then this is quite a different market from novelty/souvenir/personalised, and the product being printed to needs to be of a good enough quality to go along with the expectations of the end customer.

[ArferMo]

Been looking in to ceramic toner and then firing in a kiln at 840C trouble is a set of toner carts is over 2700 quid.... sod that knocked that idea on the head.

[daviddeer]

Been looking in to ceramic toner and then firing in a kiln at 840C trouble is a set of toner carts is over 2700 quid.... sod that knocked that idea on the head.

There is a cheaper way you just have to make the mugs yourself and transfer the image before firing :biggrin:

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