Breweries and their personalized beer bottles

Custom Beer Bottles: Our finest stories revolve around our customers’ successes. Three breweries have shared with us their exciting stories about the concept of personalized beer bottles.

The Possibilities through Glass Printing

In recent years, the demand for personalizing glass bottles and drinking glasses has significantly increased. Perfect packaging design can be achieved through glass printing. Glass printing has evolved over the years, characterized by excellent print quality. The printing of glass bottles and drinking glasses takes place at Univerre Pro Uva’s printing center in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. With an annual production of 5.8 million printed glass items, Univerre has the experience and expertise to efficiently enhance your glass packaging or drinking glasses. Univerre Pro Uva offers various printing methods to realize your packaging design according to your preferences.

The Perfect Printing Method for Every Need

At Univerre, we recommend screen printing and digital printing. Through these two different printing methods, we can cater specifically to customer needs.

Digital Printing on Glass

After extensive research and development work, Univerre now presents to you the innovative technology of digital printing. This advanced method allows for personalizing your glass packaging in variable quantities with an unprecedented variety of colors and graphics.

Printing Photos

A regular photo can be quickly and easily printed onto a glass packaging.

Photo Editing and Relief Effect

A photo can be edited to be isolated, and elements in the image can be printed in relief, adding an additional tactile experience.

Transparent Printing

Color can be removed from the photo, making the print transparent. This not only creates a tactile experience but also a visual one, giving the impression of a unique bottle shape.

Hyper-Personalization

Hyper-personalization means each glass packaging can be individually customized through variable data. Want 100,000 bottles with 100,000 different names? No problem, this is possible with the digital printer.

Digital Printing and NFC Tag

Univerre can make your glass packaging smart by attaching an NFC tag. Not only does your glass packaging become “smart,” but with digital printing, we can overprint the tag so that it blends into your design.

Mirroring Effect

Unlike screen printing, the back of the print in digital printing is white. This means a white area is visible when looking through the design from the back. However, through a special process, we can adjust the design so that it’s visible from all sides with its full color brilliance. This technique is called “mirroring” – visible from all sides.

Screen Printing on Glass

Screen printing is a technique that uses a screen and ceramic inks. In the screen printing process, the design is applied to the bottle through a fine mesh screen, creating a flat, two-dimensional design that sits on the bottle’s surface. After applying the ceramic ink to the glass bottle, the bottle is exposed to an oven at temperatures of 500 to 800 degrees for about 2 hours. The ceramic ink is essentially fired into the glass, making the print on the bottle dishwasher-resistant.

Thus, a separate screen is needed for each color. At Univerre, we can print up to 6 colors using the screen printing process.

Vector File

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Monochromatic Printing and Engraved Effect

Thanks to the wide range of colors, vector files can also be designed in monochrome. An engraved effect can also be achieved with colors like “matte gray” or “frosted.”

Precious Metal Printing

In screen printing, precious metals like real gold or platinum can be printed. Metallic-effect colors can also be printed. This is excellent for elevating your product and giving it a premium feel.

Have questions? Don’t hesitate to contact us.