TL;DR
This site describes its promotional cups as the same reusable cups that festivals and stadiums run, printed with your logo. Pint, pint to brim and half pint cups suit bars, launches and hospitality and can be printed in one colour or full colour from 50 cups per design. A 350ml coffee cup with a lid, printed in a single colour, suits offices, cafes and conferences. Printed paper pint and half pint cups suit one-day events and start at 1,000 cups. A sample cup shows the cup but not your artwork, standard reusable cups are free and premium reusable coffee cups are charged, and the team checks artwork before production.
The promotional cups page on this site puts the idea plainly: printed promo cups with your logo, the same reusable cup that festivals and stadiums run, handed to people who will fill it again. For a company buying for a launch, a conference or a client evening, the choice comes down to three things: which format fits the setting, how the print works, and which checks come with the order. This guide takes them in turn, and points to the articles that set out the rules behind the checks.
Three formats for three settings
Pint and half pint cups are the format for bars, launches, sports hospitality and any event that pours draught. The reusable event cups range has pint to line, pint to brim and half pint to line cups, printed in one colour or as a full-colour wrap from 50 cups per design. Blank stock cups and generic festival designs are also sold, from 100, for events that want reusable cups without commissioning artwork. The range is listed as BPA-free and dishwasher safe.
A lidded coffee cup is the format for offices, cafes, conferences and corporate gifting. The reusable coffee cups page describes the Now Cups range, a 350ml (12oz) cup printed in a single colour with a secure-fit lid, and Circular cups with a reusable silicone lid and double-wall insulation. Orders start at 50 cups, which the page says covers a single cafe counter or an office of forty.
Printed paper cups are the format for the days when nothing comes back. The paper festival cups page describes a paper pint at 568ml (20oz) and a paper half pint at 284ml (10oz), printed in a full-colour wrap, from 1,000 cups. The page says paper suits single-day events with no cup return, pop-up activations, sampling and tastings, and reusable suits multi-day events with a deposit system, venues with washing facilities and events where the cup carries souvenir value. The promotional cups page adds that for a one-day activation where single-use is unavoidable, the paper cups take the same artwork.
The print, the file and the sample
Event cups are printed in one colour for a bold, simple mark or as a full-colour wrap for photographic artwork and gradients, and the coffee cups in the Now Cups range are single colour. The team checks the file before it goes to production. The artwork and design service gives design tips for the file, such as resolution, colour mode, bleed and outlined text, and offers a paid design service with on-screen visuals for approval, and the product templates page offers the GC60 pint-to-line template with others available on request.
A sample cup shows the cup and the print quality in hand. The sample page says standard reusable cups are free and premium reusable coffee cups and water bottles are charged, that samples are not custom-printed with your artwork, and that free on-screen 3D visuals of a bespoke design are included, so the sample answers questions about the cup, and the visual answers questions about your design.
The checks that come with the order
A promotional cup order raises questions beyond the cup itself, and each has a guide that sets out the rules with primary sources.
If the artwork carries a sponsor's logo, a band name or a registered symbol, read the permission you need before printing a logo. If the cups are going to clients as gifts, the HMRC gift rules and VAT limit explain what counts as a deductible business gift. If your name is the only brand on the cup, product safety and the producer definition sets out who counts as the producer and what the rules leave open, and the food contact rules for ink on printed cups cover what sits on the surface.
If the cup will be a coffee cup, what the FSA says about bamboo and plastic composites is the material question to put to a supplier, and the compostable and eco-friendly claims guide covers what the cup can say about itself. If the cup will pour beer, the pint to line and pint to brim markings, the small measures licence condition and, for a one-off event, the Temporary Event Notice guide cover the bar side. If there will be staff, or a licensed bar in England or Wales, the drinking water rules for bars and workplaces set out what each has to provide.
Ordering
For a run of 50 cups or more, ask for a quote with the format, the print, the quantity and the date. For larger volumes, the wholesale cups page explains how quantities are quoted. Prices and lead times are stated on the product pages and change, so they are not repeated here.
Where this stands
This was read on 30 September 2026 from this site's own pages. Minimum orders, formats and print options come from the catalogue and change with it. The rules behind the checks are dated in the articles linked above, each with the date its sources were opened.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the minimum order for promotional cups?
Printed reusable event cups and coffee cups start at 50. Blank, generic and plain event cups start at 100, and printed paper cups start at 1,000. Larger runs are quoted per order.
Can promotional cups be printed in full colour?
Event cups are printed in one colour or as a full-colour wrap, and paper cups are printed in a full-colour wrap. The Now Cups coffee range is printed in a single colour.
Can I see a cup before I order?
Yes. The sample page says free reusable cup samples are sent weekly, that premium reusable coffee cups and water bottles are charged, that samples are not custom-printed with your artwork, and that free on-screen 3D visuals of a bespoke design are included.
Which promotional cup suits a conference?
The promotional cups page describes a 350ml (12oz) reusable coffee cup with a secure-fit lid for offices, corporate gifting and conferences, and says an order of 50 cups covers a single launch, a conference or a bar takeover.
Are promotional cups reusable?
The event cups and coffee cups described on this site are reusable, and the event cups are listed as BPA-free and dishwasher safe. The paper cups are the format for single-use, one-day events.
How we checked this article
Checked on 30 September 2026. Every product fact in this article comes from this site's own pages, read on that date: the promotional cups page, the reusable event cups page, the reusable coffee cups page, the paper festival cups page, the sample cup page, the artwork and design service page, the wholesale cups page and the product templates page. Only statements that agree across those pages are used: minimum orders, the formats and sizes, the print options for each format, and what the sample, artwork and template services say about themselves. Where the pages disagree, or repeat figures that no page sources, the article leaves the figure out. The promotional cups page gives the print minimum as 50 cups per design, and the article says so. The promotional cups and wholesale pages speak of artwork templates for every size, whereas the product templates page offers one download, the GC60 pint to line template, and others on request, so the article follows the templates page. The artwork and design service page gives its file guidance under the heading design tips, and the article describes it that way. The sample page says standard reusable cups are free and premium reusable coffee cups and water bottles are charged, so the article does not call every sample free. No price, lead time or capacity of a printed cup is repeated, because those are stated on the product pages and change. The regulatory and tax points are not restated as facts here: each is summarised as a question and pointed to the article that sets it out with its own primary sources, and the description of each linked article was checked against that article on the same date. Nothing in this article is a claim about the tax or legal position of a particular purchase.
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- Branded Cups Ltd
- Sources last checked
- 2026-09-30
