Printed Gifts & Apparel — Made to Order

Most of what Pixquo sells is digital: files you download and print yourself. This section of the shop is

the other half — real, physical objects that get printed after you order them and posted to your door.

Mugs, stickers, wall prints, t-shirts and cushions, all produced individually rather than manufactured in

bulk and stored in a warehouse.

There are currently 73 printed products across five categories. This page explains how the range fits

together, how made-to-order production actually works, and which category is the right answer for what you

are trying to buy.

The five categories

Funny coffee mugs and gift mugs

Printed ceramic mugs in 11oz and 15oz, dishwasher and microwave safe. The default gift when you need

something that costs less than a night out, needs no size, and gets used every morning. Strongest for

office gifting, Secret Santa, and anyone whose personality is substantially caffeine-based.

Vinyl stickers and die-cut decals

Water-resistant printed vinyl, cut to the shape of the design, for laptops, bottles, notebooks and cases.

The cheapest item in the range and the easiest add-on to a larger gift. Also the format people buy for

themselves most readily, because a sticker is a low-commitment way to declare something.

Art prints and wall posters

Typography and botanical prints on matte art paper, shipped unframed in standard frame sizes. The most

effective small change you can make to a room, and one of very few gifts that stays on display for years

instead of going in a drawer.

Graphic tees and printed t-shirts

Printed directly onto the garment, made to order. A narrow, identity-led range — healthcare and pet-owner

humour — because a shirt has to clear a much higher bar than a mug. Requires a size decision, which is the

only reason it is not the easiest gift here.

Printed throw pillows and cushion covers

18×18 printed cushions in botanical and typographic designs. Decorating without a project, and an

unusually reliable housewarming gift because everyone has a sofa and nobody has enough cushions.

Which category should you buy from?

The honest decision tree is short. If you do not know the recipient’s size, do not buy a shirt — buy a mug

or a print. If the budget is very small and the gift needs a finishing touch, buy a sticker. If the person

has just moved, buy a print or a cushion. If they have a job with a distinct culture and a distinct set of

grievances — nursing being the clearest example — a shirt is the one item that says you actually

understand it. And if the deadline is tomorrow, buy nothing on this page: buy the digital equivalent from

our printable wall art or

printable sticker range, which downloads instantly.

Designs that run across formats

The catalogue is built around phrases rather than products, which means most designs exist in several

formats. A coffee joke exists as a mug, a sticker and a kitchen print. A botanical phrase exists as a

print, a cushion and a sticker. A reading joke exists as a mug and a sticker for an e-reader.

That is deliberate, and it is the most useful thing to know when you are building a gift rather than buying

a single object. One phrase across three formats — mug, sticker, print — costs little more than a single

mid-priced present and reads as considerably more thought out, because the recipient can see the idea

repeated on purpose.

Materials and printing across the range

Product	Material	Print method	Care
Ceramic mug (11oz / 15oz)	Glazed ceramic	Heat-set printing onto the glazed surface	Dishwasher and microwave safe; no abrasive scourers
Die-cut vinyl sticker	Printed vinyl film with adhesive backing	Printed, then cut to the design outline	Wipe clean; hand-wash bottles
Art print / wall poster	Printed art paper, matte finish	Inkjet-based printing	Frame behind glass; avoid direct sunlight
Graphic t-shirt	Composition listed per product	Printed directly onto the finished garment	Cold wash inside out; do not iron the print
Throw pillow / cushion cover	Printed fabric; composition listed per product	Printed to the cover panel before finishing	Cool wash, air dry, no hot tumble drying

Where a specification is not listed above, it is because it varies between items and production partners.

Fabric blends, paper weights and film thicknesses are stated on the individual product pages rather than

generalised here.

Gift buying: the practical version

Three rules cover almost every mistake people make buying printed gifts.

Order early. Every item here has a production stage before it has a shipping stage, and both stretch in

November and December when every print queue in the industry is full. A gift that would have been perfect

is worthless if it lands in January.

Buy the joke they would make, not the joke you would make. Insider humour is the entire value of this

category, and its value is negative if the recipient is not inside the reference.

When in doubt, go smaller and more useful. A mug that gets used daily beats a shirt that does not fit, at

half the price and none of the risk.

Selected products from each category

A sample from each range — follow the category link above for the complete list and current pricing.

Mugs

Also in the range

Tumblers, tote bags, plush blankets, aprons, notebooks, mouse pads, pet bandanas and doormats:

How made-to-order works

Everything on this page is a physical product that does not exist until you buy it. There is no warehouse

shelf with your design sitting on it. When your order comes through, the artwork is sent to a production

partner, printed onto a blank item, quality-checked, packed and posted to your address. That is what

“print on demand” or “made to order” means, and it is worth understanding before you click buy, because it

changes what you should expect from the timeline.

The practical consequence is that there are two clocks running, not one. The first is production: the time

it takes to print, cure or press your item and get it boxed. For most printed goods this is a few business

days rather than a few hours, and it stretches during peak gifting periods when every print queue in the

industry is busy. The second clock is shipping, which depends on where you are and how customs treats the

parcel if it crosses a border. We do not publish a single delivery date here because a single date would be

a guess, and a guess dressed up as a promise is worse than no number at all. The individual product page is

where current production and delivery estimates live, and your order confirmation is where tracking appears.

Why this is different from our instant downloads

Most of the Pixquo catalogue is digital. If you buy a printable planner, a wall-art file or a sticker sheet

PDF, the file lands in your account and inbox straight away and you print it yourself. There is no

production queue, no courier and no customs form. That is the right choice when you need something tonight,

when you want to print the same page fifty times, or when you are buying for someone in a country we do not

ship to easily.

The products on this page are the opposite trade. You give up the instant gratification and you get a

finished object: a ceramic mug that survives the dishwasher, a cut vinyl decal, a poster printed on proper

stock, a shirt somebody can wear. Nothing here is emailed to you and nothing here can be downloaded. If you

are shopping close to a deadline, buy the physical item early or buy the digital equivalent instead — the

printable version is genuinely the better answer when the occasion is tomorrow.

What ordering actually looks like

You place the order and pay. Nothing is printed yet.
The design file goes to the production partner and enters the print queue.
Your item is printed, cured or pressed, checked and packed. This normally takes a few business days.
The parcel is handed to a carrier and tracking is issued.
Transit time depends on your destination, and on customs if the parcel crosses a border.

Because each item is produced individually, small variations between one order and the next are normal

rather than defects: the exact placement of a design can shift by a millimetre or two, and printed colour

will never match a backlit phone screen precisely. What should never vary is the legibility of the artwork,

the finish of the item or the build quality. If something arrives damaged, misprinted or genuinely wrong,

Related guides

If you are shopping from outside the United States, our printables and planners by country hub is a useful companion: it points to the digital versions of many of these designs, which download instantly wherever you are and sidestep shipping and customs entirely.

If you are looking at this range because you are thinking about selling printed products rather than buying

them, our digital product side hustles guide

covers the economics of made-to-order versus digital honestly, including why margins and delivery times

differ so sharply between the two.

Frequently asked questions

Are any of these instant downloads?

No. Every product linked from this page is a physical item that is printed after you order and shipped to

you. Our instant downloads live in a separate part of the shop — see

printable planners,

printable wall art and

printable stickers.

How long does an order take?

There are two stages: production, which normally takes a few business days because your item does not exist

until you order it, and shipping, which depends on your destination and carrier. We do not publish a single

delivery date because it would be a guess. The current estimate for any item is on its product page, and

tracking is issued once the parcel is dispatched.

Can I order several different products in one go?

Yes. Items from different categories can go in the same order. Note that if products are produced by

different partners they may ship separately and arrive on different days — that is normal for made-to-order

fulfilment and not a sign anything has gone wrong.

Do you ship internationally?

Shipping options and costs are calculated at checkout for your address. International orders take longer

and may be subject to customs handling. If you are outside our fastest shipping zones, the digital

equivalents in our by-country hub are

often the better answer.

Why is the same design available on several products?

Because the catalogue is built around phrases, not objects. A phrase that works on a mug generally works on

a sticker and a print too, which lets you build a matching gift set rather than buying three unrelated

things.

What if something arrives damaged or misprinted?

and occasional misprints happen, and we will replace or refund a genuinely faulty item.

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