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Printing Techniques

Bringing 25 years of printing excellence to Wineries, Breweries and Distillers.
Incredible graphic capabilities allow your merchandise to accurately reflect your branding theme.  Don’t settle for a subdued version of your logo on your glassware.  We can reproduce any graphic on stemware, pilsner glasses, beer mugs and liquor glasses.
Our precision imprinting process allows unlimited colors; even full color.  Our Organic Polymer inks are bright, durable, lead and cadmium free with good residential dishwasher resistance!
We offer an amazing range of decorating options.  From the basics, like satin etch, to the amazing like our exclusive “Sparkle” or Full color imprints.  Challenge us, we will make your glassware stand out!
Spray your glassware for frost, iridescent shimmer, glow-in-the-dark or black-light or color change effects.  Color the stems and match the imprint!
We are centrally located in Iowa for easy, economical shipping.  We purchase directly from the major glassware manufacturers for a wide variety of items at competitive prices.  We will even decorate your bottles!

SATIN ETCH IMPRINTS

Basic satin etch or upscale colored etch.  Satin etch looks and feels like the glass was etched with fantastic detail and economy.  We can dye our etch for satin finish pastel “colored etch” imprint.  Frost the stems or frost the glass.  Great for wine, dark beer and spirits.  Simple and elegant.

MULTIPLE COLORS

Our precision registration technique allows us to print an unlimited number of imprint colors so you can use your complex logo! Great for colorful beer logos, vineyard and company logos. We can print as many colors as needed with perfect (1/64” or better) registration. Don’t hesitate, we can do it. Just send us your logo and we will give you a quote. We make it easy to do the “impossible”!

FULL COLOR

​Too many colors to count?  Our full color system can handle it.  Make your glasses look just like the labels on your bottles.  Bright, residential dishwasher resistant, lead and cadmium free!  Add metallic or other colors as needed.  We’ll help you!

SHIMMER

​Dress it up!  Make it shimmer!  Give life to the wings of a dragonfly!  Iridescent frost in white and colors gives your imprint a pearlescent shimmer.  Spray it on and make the glass itself shimmer.  It looks like frost, but when a dark beverage is poured into the glass, the color shimmers

METALLIC COLORS

Gold, silver, copper or metallic colors are available and many times at no extra charge compared to standard imprints.

SPARKLE

Give your imprint a metallic sparkle.  Gold, Silver or Copper, Sparkle is high impact and calls attention to your brand.  Great for party drinks and sparkling wine.

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NEON & GLOW-WOW

The ultimate party drink decorations.  Neon colors and Glow.  Neon colors are bright in daylight and brilliant under blacklight.  Glow-Wow glows in the dark and lights up in blacklight.  Perfect for club drinks!  Available as imprints or all-over color on certain items like shot glasses.

COLOR CHANGE

Selling spirits for ice-cold beverages?  Cold-Change imprints are frosted at room temperature and turn to color when an ice cold beverage is added.  Your hand will warm the imprint and turn it to frost, when you let go, it turns to color again before your eyes!  Also offered as all over color on selected items like shot glasses.  See your frosted shot glass turn to color as your pour in ice cold vodka!  Hot cider in the winter?  Hot-Change imprints are black at room temperature and clear when hot liquids are added.  Other colors are available too.

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