Custom Branded Paper Cups
We are the UK's number one supplier of eco-friendly paper cups. We have been supplying printed paper cups and catering supplies for large brands, independents and new catering businesses since 2018. Looking for a bespoke paper cup printing service that can deliver fast and meet small minimum order quantities? Look no further than our eco-friendly branded cups! We offer standard off the shelf takeaway cups here, but this section is for custom printed paper cups! Below you can see answers to our most commonly asked questions
- Price Guarantee: No nonsense pricing - We will not be beaten on a like for like product
- Short or Long Production Runs are no problem from as few as a single case up to millions of cups
- Discounts by Quantity – Print and transport economies are passed back to you
- Free Artwork Design, No Hidden Costs or Artwork Fees
- Made in the UK – Supporting UK manufacturing unlike competitors bringing product with a much higher carbon footprint from outside the UK
- Easy to recycle, compostable and biodegradable
- Double Wall Cups or Single Wall Cups
What is the difference between Single Walled & Double Wall Custom Paper Cups?
Single Walled Paper Cups have a single layer of paper board, and are often used for cold drinks, for example cinema cups, or in recent years as festival cups, as events organisers move away from single-use plastic alcohol cups. Single walled cups are not often used for coffee as they do not have as much thermal insulation making them very hot to touch. If customers were to request a cup sleeve or cup clutch to give some insulation then the combined cost of the single walled cup and the sleeve would usually be more than the coffee operator just purchasing a double walled cup. If no cup sleeves are available staff will often double cup the coffee automatically or at the customers request increasing the cost of the packaging associated with the sale. A double walled cup is effectively just a single walled cup with a sleeve glued in place. It looks and feels more premium.
Paper Cup Design and Print
If you or your designers wish to hand the design of your printed paper cups then we would love to see your creative ideas. However, printing on curved surfaces can be complicated, especially when it comes to text. So if artwork is not your forte or your designer wants to save the headache then send us your logo files and a brief description of what you would like. Chami, our talented designer can put something together for you and produce a 3D digital mockup for you free of charge. Once you are happy to go forward, we can get your cups into production straight away for speedy delivery to you.
We use food safe - odourless inks that are vegetable or water-based, ensuring your branded cups are eco-friendly. Our litho, flexographic, or digital print options also allow for pantone matching, so you can ensure your branded paper cups are an exact match to your brand colours.
We handle the paper cup design for you free of charge! Just send us your logo or assets, and we'll produce a 3D digital mock-up to bring your design to life. And, with our fast delivery and quick turnaround times, you'll receive your custom printed paper cups in no time. If you're looking for a printed plastic cup to suit the tightest of budgets, we've got you covered. And, if you're hosting an eco-conscious event, go for our biodegradable cups with your logo. Our eco-friendly paper cups are sure to make an impression on your customers.
At our paper cup manufacturing facility, we champion UK manufacturing and offer market-leading turnaround times for small batches. Plus, we offer a range of paper cup sizes and materials, including double wall insulated cups, single wall cups, and tear-open coupon style cups with a matt or shiny gloss finish. Our compostable cups, plastic-free cups, aqueous cups, biodegradable cups, recyclable cups, and CE marked cups offer a range of solutions. And, with our new paper pints CE and paper half pint cups CE for draught beers, ales, and ciders, we've got you covered for all your paper cup needs.
Need help with your project? Our team would be happy to discuss your needs and provide guidance on the size, level of decoration, quantity, and lead time required to arrive at a great paper cup price for you. Choose our branded paper cups for a fuss-free event essential that's sure to make a lasting impression. Simply select your required size below and fill out the enquiry form for a quick quote on our market leading cups.
Express Turnaround, Low Minimum Printed Paper Cups in a variety of Sizes
We are the leading supplier of eco-friendly, quick turnaround printed espresso paper cups. Our printed disposable 4oz cups are typically turned around in a maximum of 3 weeks from artwork approval. From time to time, faster turnarounds are required and can be possible for an extra charge with an express dedicated digital-print run. If you need a quantity not listed in the dropdown menu's or a quicker turnaround please get in touch with our team for a fast quote.
4oz Custom Printed Espresso Paper Cups - Single Walled
Our 4oz printed paper cups are packed in cases of 1500 units, and are used predominantly in the coffee industry as espresso cups. Other uses include for alcohol tastings at activations in trade and in retail, aswell as food sampling cups. We even have some customers who use them for ice-cream serves. Small, but mighty!
Custom Branded 4oz SW Espresso Cups
6oz Custom Printed Flat White Paper Cups - Single Walled
Flat white cups are very popular with artisan coffee houses. Up until recently these were always subject to a large minimum order quantity and came from far away, but with the arrival of our new machines in summer 2024 we are now able to offer these from as few as a single case of 1000, with quick lead times. These are single walled but we offer a double walled version too depending on your preference .
Custom Branded 6oz SW Flat White Cups
6oz Custom Printed Flat White Paper Cups - Double Walled
The Double Wall version of our flat white coffee cups is cased in 500's and is fully digitally printed, meaning you can gave as complex a design as you wish for no more cost than a simple one. Often in the Uk flat whites are served in an 8oz cup which is not quite full, which sadly visually takes away from the elite coffee serve that this is. We have you covered now, with our quick turnaround made in the uk cups..
Custom Branded 6oz DW Flat White Cups
8oz Custom Printed Paper Cups - Single Walled
8oz single walled cups have become very popular in the alcohol market just as much as the coffee world, because they are actually just over 9oz or 265ml when filled to the brim. A great size for short cocktail serves, spirits & mixers and soft drinks. These cups can also be used for hot drinks too, and often are, although our double walled version below is usually more frequently used because of its added thermal insulation.
8oz Custom Printed Paper Cups - Double Walled
Double Walled 8oz cups are typically used for all sorts of hot drinks, everything from coffee to tea, hot chocolate and mulled drinks. For the coffee market our most popular sizes are this and 12oz double walled. The 8oz Double Walled cup would be a small/regular serve of a hot drink.
12oz Custom Printed Paper Cups - Single Walled
All of our single walled sizes are becoming increasingly popular with the events and festival markets for serving alcohol and cold drinks in. Our 12oz single wall cups are a very popular size for this. With a brim capacity of approximately 13.5oz or 400ml then with a few lumps of ice it is great for large drinks serves. Customers do use these for hot drinks too, but when wanting to avoid customers covering up the branding with cup sleeves they more often than not go for the double walled version below.
12oz Custom Printed Paper Cups - Double Walled
Double Walled 12oz cups are by far and away the most popular cup size in the UK market. Perfect for Cappuccino's, Latte's aswell as all large coffee and tea serves this is a must have size for all coffee operators.
16oz Custom Printed Paper Cups - Single Walled
Our 16oz Single Walled cups are most popular with cinemas, milkshake bars, juice bars and bubble tea bars. These extra large cups are great for cold drinks. Like most of our other single walled cups they can be completed in as little as 3 weeks from artwork approval. From time to time, faster turnarounds are required and can be possible for an extra charge with an express dedicated digital-print run. If you need a quantity not listed in the dropdown menu's or a quicker turnaround please get in touch with our team for a fast quote.
16oz Custom Printed Paper Cups - Double Walled
16oz Double Wall Cups are an extra large serve of coffee or other hot drinks.
20oz Custom Printed Paper Pint Cups - UKCA / CE Marked Paper Pints - Single Walled
20oz Single Wall Paper Pint Cups are used mainly by festival and bar operators for serving draught pints of beer, ale and cider, aswell as some cinema and fast food outlets for extra large drinks serves.
Custom Branded 20oz Paper Pint Cups
What makes our Branded Paper Cups Eco-Friendly?
We produce our branded paper cups here in the UK, in a production facility partially powered by Solar Energy. Printed paper cups are like these in the market are often imported from much further away, with a long leadtime and a much higher minimum order quantity. Buy purchasing a Uk manufactured product you are supporting UK jobs. We have been working with a tree planting charity for many years to plant tree's to more than offset the paper used in the production of our cups too, further enhancing the eco-credentials of the product. Read on to learn more about our sustainable paper cups and Delipac Cup Board that makes them easy to recycle or compost.
Can I recycle or compost my paper coffee cups?
Our branded paper cups are made to be recycled, meaning more beautiful paper products can be made from precious paper fibres improving circularity, making the paper cup market more sustainable and lowering the carbon footprint. We believe this to be greener thank composting, and therefore needing new tree's to produce more paper products. However, if compostable or biodegradable cups are a must, we have you covered. Our cups are fully compostable and will degrade at a comparable rate to a newspaper. They are home compostable, which is a massive advantage over compostable/biodegradable cups in the market which require industrial composting and are not as green as they seem to be! But, it is also easily recyclable and that is our recommendation. Recycling the paper fibres in the cups means more beautiful paper products can be made and less tree's consumed. Read on to learn more...
Our cups are very easy to recycle or compost, offering distinct advantages when compared against competitors in the market because ours are plastic free, whereas theirs are not. Most cups on the market nowadays usually either contain a thin layer of PE plastic bonded to the cup, or a compostable / biodegradable liner like PLA which is a plant based bioplastic. PE plastic is in itself easily recyclable, but when bonded to the paper board it does make it pretty difficult and these cups need to be disposed of in a bin that will go to a recycling facility that can recycle them correctly. Similarly with PLA based compostable cups, these cups require disposal in specialist bins so that they can go away for high heat industrial composting. Unfortunately, in both cases for high street coffee-on-the-go a customer is highly unlikely to pass the required bin making these cups difficult to dispose of properly. Our cups are compatible with high street paper waste bins and are even suitable for home composting, because unlike PLA they do not require high heat to break down a bioplastic barrier. Our cup board is certified plastic free by the prestigtous European FLUSTIX Lab.
| Disposal Method (Binfrastructure) | PE Lined Cups | PLA Lined Cups | Greener Cups |
| Compost Bin (Food Waste Bin) | X | ✓ | ✓ |
| Newspaper bin on a High Street | X | X | ✓ |
| Mixed Recycling Bin on a High Street | X | X | ✓ |
| Office Paper & Cardboard Bin | X | X | ✓ |
| Mixed Recycling Bin at Home | X | X | ✓ |
| Specialist Paper Reycling Bins (e.g. bringback schemes by McDonalds, Starbucks, Costa etc) | ✓ | X | ✓ * |
| General Waste Bin | X | X | ✓ |
| Incineration | X | ✓ | ✓ |
| Left in the environment (Sea, woods, field, ditch etc - of course we do not want this outcome) | X | X | ✓ |
*If disposed of in this bin the product will most likely end up in landfill. Depending on the country and area of disposal there is a chance of incineration, but usually a sealed or unsealed landfill. Sealed landfills are starved of oxygen and degradation is suspended. In an unsealed landfill - This product would break down at a comparable rate to a newspaper. Both the paper element and the lining would fully biodegrade
- READ MORE ABOUT HOW WE STRUGGLE TO PROCESS COMPOSTABLE CUPS IN THE UK IN OUR BLOG...
Bulk Buying Printed Coffee Cups, Storage & Distribution
When printing, forming, packing and delivering cups there are economies to be made with scale. Some of our competitors see that as an opportunity but we rather pass on print economies to our customers. We want to work with our customers as partners in each others long term success. Storage space is not always easy, particularly for coffee shop businesses. We often do bulk orders for many of our multi-site or large volume customers whereby we can commit to large quantities of print, we can store and distribute these cups at regular intervals saving money, bringing consistency and negating any future price rises in the market. We have a number of payment solutions to spread the costs for these businesses including instalment payments with IwocaPay and PayPal Credit.
The Buying Process & Next Steps
Our individual cup pages 4oz espresso cup artwork template is available for you to download below, or we can design it for you free of charge if you send us Every project is unique, and if you wish to discuss your needs with a member of our team please do not hesitate to get in touch with our friendly team via our contact page or by calling us on 01252938802 or read on for more of the frequently asked questions about Printed Paper Cups
Are branded paper cups fully customisable?
We can custom print your paper cups with your design on the outer part of a single walled cup, or we can custom print a double walled wrap which is then wrapped around a plain white single wall cup. It is not cost effective to print the small white part of the single wall cup that protrudes below the double wall wrap. The print process for the double walled cups is a full digital print, and can be photorealistic in quality, meaning you can customise the
Can branded coffee cups be used for alcohol?
Yes, our branded paper cups are increasingly being used in the alcohol, festival, events and concerts market as customers and bar operators seek to move away from single use plastic drinks cups.
Do personalised paper cups meet the guidelines for compliance with the EU's Single-Use Plastics (SUP) directive?
Did you know that PE lined cups and PLA lined cups are supposed to carry the 'PLASTIC IN PRODUCT' messaging and dead turtle logo if produced or used in the EU? Because of Brexit it is not compulsory in the UK market, but there are many products produced for big brands that contain this marking and you may have seen them in the market. The board we use to produce our cups is exempt from this as it is certified plastic free. So when it comes to our Plastic-Free Printed Paper Cups, we call them greener cups and now you understand why!
Are your printed paper cups PFAS Free?
Paper based food packaging can often contain high levels of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This is used to increase water and fat resistance to help stop the board rom compromising when in contact with these liquids. These substances are often referred to as forever chemicals and there is a growing awareness of them and a pushback from the public against their use, and rightly so! The cup board we use is certified as PFAS free so you do not need to worry about this. Our cups have outstanding moisture, grease, liquid and oil resistance through the cleverly engineered integrated, non-polymer barrier, especially designed & refined to package food and drink.
What compliance and certifications do you hold for your cup board?
You can read more about our Delipac Cup Board compliance and certification here.