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Coffee sublimation designs

50 coffee designs, drawn as full-colour sublimation art, printed rather than cut. The set covers cups, beans, steam motifs and coffee-humour lettering. They are made for mugs, tumblers, kitchen towels, pantry labels, aprons, cutting-board vinyl and bar-cart signs.

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What people make with coffee sublimations

Mugs, tumblers, kitchen towels, pantry labels, aprons, cutting-board vinyl and bar-cart signs — those are the pieces this collection gets used for. In this format they go on polyester shirts, poly-coated tumblers, mousepads, ceramic mugs and sublimation blanks — polyester or a poly coating only, never untreated cotton.

Printing and pressing

Sublimation is not a cutting job — nothing here gets weeded. Print onto sublimation paper with sublimation ink, then press at roughly 385–400°F for 45–60 seconds depending on the blank. The ink turns to gas and bonds into the polyester, which is why it only works on polyester or a poly-coated surface, and why it will not show on cotton or on a dark garment.

Getting coffee designs right

Sublimation ink bonds only to polyester and polymer coating, so the blank decides the result more than the artwork does — the same file is vivid on a coated mug and washed out on cotton. Mug designs sit in a 3.5in tall band. Anything taller runs into the rim or the base and will not apply flat. Anything that touches food or goes through a dishwasher needs permanent vinyl and a hand-wash caveat. Keep the design at least half an inch below a mug rim — that is the zone a dishwasher jet attacks first.

Exporting for your machine

Export PNG at final physical size and at least 300 DPI, then print onto sublimation paper. There is no cut line and no weeding — the design is pressed into polyester, not cut from vinyl.

Cut, score, draw and engrave operations are written as named layers, so Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio and laser software map them to the right tool without manual reassignment. For a printed sheet, the print-then-cut guide covers registration and bleed.

Coffee in other formats

The same theme drawn for a different medium — printed, pressed or cut.

More sublimations collections

All sublimations

Questions

Mug wraps: 8.5in wide by 3.5in tall of safe area. Pantry labels 2–3in. Apron fronts 7–8in.

50 files covering cups, beans, steam motifs and coffee-humour lettering, drawn as full-colour sublimation art, printed rather than cut. Every one is a true vector, so it resizes without quality loss and opens straight in the browser studio for editing before export.

Print them. Sublimation designs are pressed into polyester or a poly-coated blank, not cut and weeded — there is no cut line and no weeding. Export PNG at full size and print onto sublimation paper.

Yes — Edit in the browser and export print-ready PNG at 300 DPI for sublimation. In Design Space use Upload → Upload Image; layers arrive separated because each operation carries a distinct fill.

Yes on the paid plan, which includes a commercial licence for the physical products you make and sell — polyester shirts, poly-coated tumblers, mousepads, ceramic mugs and sublimation blanks included. Reselling or redistributing the design files themselves is not permitted on any plan.

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Free, in the browser, no install. Edit it and export a cut-ready file in minutes.

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