Wine Glasses as Corporate Gifts - Engraving vs. Imprinting

Wine Glasses as Corporate Gifts - Engraving vs.decorate less expensive stemware and at times
Imprintingwhen it is necessary to decorate a large number
Traditionally, wine glasses have been decoratedof glasses with an identical logo or message. As
with monograms, commemorative names andpart of the imprinting process the stemware is
date, for weddings and anniversaries and moreheat treated to permanently bond the ink to the
recently corporate logos. There are many typesstemware in the same manner as imprinting
of decorating processes that can be used to logoceramic coffee cups.
a product or add a name and date. The mostIt is important to note that most commercial
popular is engraving or etching, which is normallystemware decorators have a special color ink that
accomplished by covering the wine glass with ais used for imprinting stemware to look like it is
mask or film pattern, then sand, is blown againstengraved or frosted. This method is very popular
the surface. Wherever the glass is not protectedfor decorating stemware for events and gives
by the masked pattern, it becomes etched orthe stemware an upscale look. Because the
engraved as the sand strikes the surface.process is priced per color it also allows the wine
Wine glasses normally are engraved when theglass to be decorated on both sides at no extra
value of the glass is above $5.00 and in smallercharge, one for the event name and the other
quantities or as special corporate gifts. In the caseside for a date or sponsor logo or name. This
of weddings, and larger events like wine tastings,process is also called satin imprinting or satin etch,
banquets and holiday parties, wine glasses can alsoeven though it is not actually etching or engraving
be imprinted with ink which is a less expensivethe wine glasses.
method of decoration, which is why it is used to