Visstun® cups are truly a breakthrough in printed drinkware. What makes this type of cup so special? Image quality! Most old-style injection molded and thermoformed plastic cups are imprinted with silkscreen or rotary offset AFTER they are formed. Visstun® cups are printed FLAT and THEN formed. Lithographic 4-Color Process printing on a flat sheet allows us to deliver Hi-Definition, photo-quality images. The result is a cup with stunning graphics that rival a company's annual report. Finally, a cup worthy of your company image!
HOW ARE THEY MADE?
FLAT plastic sheets are printed on our Heidelberg® and KBA UV lithographic printing presses at over 300lpi (second order stochastic screening)
for a print quality that far surpasses old-style cup imprinting methods.
FLAT printed plastic sheets are die-cut to the characteristic "fan-shape" sidewall form needed to manufacture the cup.
Using our custom engineered cup machinery, the FLAT printed and die-cut sheet is wrapped into the basic cup shape,
the bottom is placed and sealed, and the top lip formed — all this at speeds over 140 cups per minute.
STEP-BY-STEP
 1. Flat plastic sheets are fed into offset litho press |
 2. Flat plastic sheets are printed using high-quality 4-Color Process offset lithography |
 3. Flat plastic sheets are die-cut into individual cup blanks |
 4. Individual cup blanks are removed from press sheet |
 5. Cup blanks are placed on a conveyor and fed into the cup manufacturing machine |
 6. Suction cups grab each blank and move it into the production cycle |
 7. The side seam is heated and the basic shape is formed – the bottom is placed |
 8. The bottom of the cup is heat sealed |
 9. The rim is heated and rolled in several steps |
 10. The finished cup is automatically delivered to a packaging machine |
 11. Pre-defined quantities are packaged for shipping |
 12. A reusable plastic cup with visually stunning graphics is the result |
