Blank tumblers, mugs, coffee cups and water bottles with a factory-applied sublimation coating, sold wholesale in bulk for Amazon, Etsy and print-on-demand sellers. Crisp, full-wrap sublimation results, consistent coating batch to batch, from a 500-piece MOQ. Buy blanks direct from the factory, not a reseller. Sublimation water bottle blanks, blank tumbler cups, sublimation stainless steel tumblers and sublimation mugs in bulk all come off the same coating line.
Can I buy wholesale sublimation mugs and tumblers in bulk without a huge first order?▾
Yes. Bulk sublimation mugs and tumblers run from 500 pieces per design, and you can split that across shapes rather than committing the whole quantity to one body. Buyers ordering sublimation tumbler wholesale for the first time usually take a mixed container of 20 oz and 30 oz to see which moves before scaling. Every blank ships white with the coating already on it, so the only variable on your side is the press.
What is a sublimation blank?▾
A sublimation blank is a tumbler, mug or bottle coated with a polymer layer that lets you heat-press a full-colour design onto it. We apply that coating at the factory so the surface is even and the print stays sharp.
What is the MOQ for sublimation blanks?▾
500 pieces per style. You can mix sizes within a style family, and scale to pallets as your listings grow.
Are the blanks ready for a heat press at home or do you print them?▾
Both. Most sellers buy them blank and press their own designs. If you prefer, we can pre-print your design or logo and ship finished, FBA-ready units.
Do you sell raw (uncoated) blanks for laser or UV instead?▾
Yes. We supply raw stainless, powder-coated and uncoated blanks for laser engraving, UV printing or screen printing, as well as sublimation-coated ones.
Can you ship blanks directly to Amazon FBA?▾
Yes. We provide FBA cartons, FNSKU/UPC labels and polybags, and ship by sea or air direct to your fulfilment centre.
Will the blanks be consistent across reorders?▾
Yes — same dimensions and coating each batch, so your wraps and press profiles stay accurate when you reorder.
Do the blanks work with Cricut vinyl as well as sublimation?▾
Yes. The stainless and powder-coated surfaces take Cricut adhesive vinyl cleanly, and the sublimation coating is made for heat-press transfers — many Etsy and print-on-demand sellers run both methods on the same blank water bottles.
Do you supply sublimation coffee mugs and blank tumblers, or only the tumbler shapes?▾
Both. Sublimation coffee mugs, dye sublimation mugs and blank mugs for sublimation are the same coated body in a mug format; SB-1004 and SB-1005 are the 12 oz shapes buyers usually list as coffee mug sublimation. Sublimation blank tumblers run 14–30 oz — the 20 oz sublimation tumbler (SB-1006 and SB-1008) is the volume seller, with the 30 oz SB-1007 for buyers who want the tapered grip. All of them ship white with the coating already on, so the only variable left is your press.
Why our blanks
What factory-made sublimation blanks do for your margins
Print-on-demand margins live or die on blank cost and coating quality. We make the blanks ourselves, so you get a clean, even sublimation surface at factory price — and you can scale from a test batch to pallets without changing supplier.
Even, full-wrap coating
Factory-applied polymer coating gives sharp, fade-resistant sublimation across the whole surface, including curves.
Batch consistency
Same coating, same blank dimensions every reorder — so your print profiles and wraps stay dialled in.
True factory price
Skip the blank-reseller markup that eats POD margins. Buy direct from the maker by the carton or pallet.
Scale without switching
Start at MOQ 500 to test designs, then scale to thousands — same blanks, lower unit cost.
Blank types
Sublimation blanks we make
All blanks come sublimation-ready. Need a raw (uncoated) or powder-coated version for laser or UV instead? We make those too.
Blank sublimation tumblers
Straight and tapered insulated tumbler cups, 12–40 oz, with lids and optional straws.
Blank sublimation mugs & coffee cups
Ceramic-look and stainless travel mugs and coffee cups, sublimation-coated.
Blank sublimation water bottles
Stainless and aluminium bottles with full-wrap sublimation coating.
Lids, straws & accessories
Matching lids, straws, gaskets and gift boxes to complete your retail SKU.
How we make the cups — so your blanks are consistent batch to batch
The blanks
Seven blank bodies, and what each one asks of your press
Blank sublimation mugs and sublimation tumblers in 11 oz through 20 oz, coated in-house. If you buy sublimation mugs wholesale for a print-on-demand operation, coating consistency between batches matters more than any single spec — it decides whether your press settings stay put.
All coated in-house at even thickness — the one variable that decides whether your print comes out saturated or pale. From 500 pieces per shape.
Tell us style, quantity, logo and packaging — or ask for our catalogue.
Quote & artwork
We quote within 24 hours and prepare your logo mock-up and colour match.
Sample
Pre-production sample in 7–10 days for your approval.
Production
Bulk run in about 30 days after deposit, with in-line QC.
Shipping
Retail/FBA packing and shipping by sea or air, direct to you or your FC.
Buyer guide
What each kind of buyer needs to settle before ordering sublimation blanks
Six kinds of buyer order this range, and each one gets caught by something different. These apply to every model in the range — the model pages then tell you what changes for that particular one.
Importers & wholesalers — What your landed cost actually turns on
Unit price is where buyers negotiate and freight is where the money goes. This model packs the carton count shown in the spec table above, and that number decides how many pieces fit a 20ft container far more than the FOB price does. We quote EXW Yongkang, FOB Ningbo or Shanghai, or DDP door to door — and we will tell you which of the three costs you least given where you are, rather than defaulting to whichever is easiest for us. Export documents (CO, BL, invoice, packing list) are prepared in-house, so there is no second party to chase when your customs broker asks for something at short notice.
Brand owners & private label — Three separate budget lines, not one
Logo decoration sits inside the unit price. A matched Pantone is its own run and starts at 1,000 pieces. Packaging is a third line with its own tooling and proofing round — this model ships in our standard pack, and anything else needs its own lead time. Brands that budget these as one number are the ones that get surprised at quotation. We sign an NDA before you share artwork, and a shape you tool for stays reserved to you.
Retail chains — Getting through the receiving door
Retail-ready means more than a colour box. UPC or EAN printed and scan-tested before the carton is sealed, carton marking to your own packaging manual if you send it, and inner counts that match what your DC expects. A barcode that fails at the till becomes a chargeback, and it is entirely preventable at our end. Ask for the retail packaging spec sheet with your first quote rather than after the sample is approved.
Promotional distributors — Working backwards from the in-hands date
Standard production is 30 days after deposit and artwork approval, plus sea freight — roughly 30-35 days to Europe, 25-30 to the US west coast. Add 7-10 days for a printed pre-production sample before any of that starts. Give us the in-hands date at enquiry rather than after artwork approval: we work backwards from it and tell you the real cut-off for each stage. Late artwork is normal in this business; a date discovered late is not survivable.
Amazon & e-commerce sellers — FBA-ready at the factory, not at a prep centre
FNSKU labels, Prop 65 warnings and suffocation warnings applied here, cartons built to FBA dimension and weight limits, and shipment splits by fulfilment centre if you send us the plan. Doing this at the factory removes a prep-centre handling fee and a week of transit on every restock. The compliance documents your listing may be asked for — FDA, LFGB, EU 1935/2004 — are downloadable now rather than promised later.
End users & institutions — What survives daily institutional washing
Canteens, schools, hotels and site catering wash hard and often. Specify laser engraving rather than print. It costs slightly more up front and removes the complaint entirely.
Shipping sublimation blanks into Europe and Australia
A steady share of the buyers who find this page are print shops and blank distributors in Sweden,
Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Czech Republic and Australia — markets where sublimation is mature and the
local blank supply is mostly re-sold stock. Buying the blanks direct changes two things: you pick the
coating and the packing, and you stop paying for someone else's warehouse.
What ships well. Sublimation mugs, tumblers and bottles are coated goods, and the
coating is what a long sea leg threatens — not the steel. We pack blanks with the coated surface
protected and the cartons palletised so nothing rubs in transit. For European buyers we usually quote
FOB Ningbo or Shanghai; for smaller repeat orders, DDP door-to-door is often simpler than clearing a
part-container yourself.
What the paperwork needs to say. EU buyers need EU 1935/2004 and, for the drinking
surface, food-contact test data — all five of our certificates download straight from the
certifications page, so you can forward them to your own customer before
you place an order. Australian buyers generally ask for FDA 21 CFR and Prop 65 as well; we hold both.
Lead time, honestly. Stock-colour blanks run about 30 days from deposit plus sailing
time — roughly 30–35 days to North European ports and 20–25 to Australian east coast. If you are
planning a Christmas print season, that maths puts your order date in July or August, not October.
We would rather tell you that now than take a deposit we cannot land in time.
Ready to order sublimation blanks?
Tell Beyond the style, size and quantity — you'll get blank pricing and a sample plan, usually within 24 hours.
