Mug design size: 11 oz and 15 oz sublimation template sizes in inches, centimetres and pixels

An 11 oz mug’s full-wrap design is about 8.5 × 3.5 in (21.6 × 8.9 cm), which is 2550 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. A 15 oz mug is taller, so its wrap is about 8.5 × 4 in (21.6 × 10.2 cm), 2550 × 1200 pixels. The width runs round the mug and stops short of the handle; the height runs up the side, a little short of the rim and the base.

There is no single standard. Every mug blank, press and printer has its own wrap, and the sizes below are what printers and blank makers publish, checked against several of them (listed at the end). Your printer’s or blank’s own template always wins: use it for the final file.

Mug design sizes

Placement	Design size	Pixels at 300 DPI	Printers publish	Where it goes
11 oz mug, full wrap	8.5 × 3.5 in (21.6 × 8.9 cm)	2550 × 1050 pixels	7.9–9.1 in (20.1–23.1 cm) wide	Round the mug, centred opposite the handle
15 oz mug, full wrap	8.5 × 4 in (21.6 × 10.2 cm)	2550 × 1200 pixels	8–9 in (20.3–22.9 cm) wide	Round the mug, centred opposite the handle

“Printers publish” is the range of wrap widths the printers and blank makers listed at the end give for that mug. The heights they give vary too, from 3 to 3.8 inches for an 11 oz mug and from 3.5 to 4.3 inches for a 15 oz one, because each leaves its own margin at the rim and the base.

11 oz mug sublimation template size

The standard 11 oz white mug is about 3.8 in (9.7 cm) tall and 3.2 in (8.1 cm) across, so it is about 10.1 in (25.7 cm) round. The print does not go all the way round: the wrap is about 8.5 × 3.5 in (21.6 × 8.9 cm), 2550 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI, which leaves about 1.6 in (4.1 cm) unprinted where the handle joins the mug. The widths printers publish run 7.9–9.1 in (20.1–23.1 cm) wide.

Make the design at the full wrap size even if it only covers part of the mug, and place it where you want it on the wrap: the middle of the wrap is the side opposite the handle.

15 oz mug print size

A 15 oz mug is about the same width round as an 11 oz one but taller, so its wrap is about the same width and taller: 8.5 × 4 in (21.6 × 10.2 cm), 2550 × 1200 pixels at 300 DPI. Printers publish widths of 8–9 in (20.3–22.9 cm) wide. A design made for an 11 oz mug fits a 15 oz one with space above and below it; going the other way, a 15 oz design has to be scaled down or cropped.

Mugs of other sizes (10 oz, 12 oz, 20 oz) and tapered latte mugs differ more from one blank to the next, and a tapered mug’s flat design is curved to fit the cone. For those, use the template of the exact blank.

One side or two sides of a mug

Many mugs carry one design on each side of the handle, centred on the front and the back. Each side then has half the wrap, about 4.25 × 3.5 in (10.8 × 8.9 cm) (1275 × 1050 pixels) on an 11 oz mug, and each design is centred on its half. A single design on one face is smaller still: 4over4 gives about 4 × 3.5 inches for it. Most printers publish only the wrap, so place a one-sided design on a full-wrap file.

Either way, keep the artwork away from the handle. Cricut asks for at least half an inch between the design and the handle, and some blank suppliers more. Some printers also want a little bleed above and below the wrap; the template says how much.

What DPI should a mug design be?

300 DPI at the printed size. The pixels follow from the size:

pixels = inches × 300, or centimetres ÷ 2.54 × 300

150 DPI is the lowest that still looks sharp at a normal viewing distance. To see how large an image you already have can print, use the image print size calculator.

How to set up a mug design file

1. Get the template for your mug. Download the template of the exact blank or printer you use, or measure the printable band round your mug, leaving the gap at the handle.
2. Make the canvas the size of the wrap. Set the document to the wrap’s size at 300 DPI: 8.5 × 3.5 in (21.6 × 8.9 cm) is 2550 × 1050 pixels for an 11 oz mug, 8.5 × 4 in (21.6 × 10.2 cm) is 2550 × 1200 pixels for a 15 oz one.
3. Place the design. The middle of the wrap faces away from the handle. For a design on each side, centre one on each half of the wrap, and keep everything clear of the ends.
4. Add the bleed the template asks for. Where the printer wants bleed above and below the wrap, extend the background into it so that no white edge shows.
5. Export at the full size. Export the whole wrap as one image at the full size, and print a test mug before you take orders.

When customers design the mug in your shop

PrintBlob prints on its bundled t-shirt. PrintBlob Pro adds your own products on your own photos, a mug among them: you photograph the mug, draw the print area on the photo and enter its real print size, for one side or for a front and a back either side of the handle. While a customer places an image the designer shows its resolution at that size and warns below 150 DPI. When the design is added to the cart, each printed side becomes a transparent PNG at 300 DPI at exactly that side’s print size, so a side set to 4.25 × 3.5 in (10.8 × 8.9 cm) arrives as 1275 × 1050 pixels.

PrintBlob makes no sublimation wrap template: it does not lay the sides out on a mug-sized sheet, mirror them or add bleed. You place each side’s file on your own template, as you would a file a customer emailed. Pro is $69 a year or $99 once (limited-time offer until 31 December 2026) (Free and Pro compared). Setting up a mug next to your t-shirts is in sell custom hoodies, mugs, tote bags and caps, and measuring a print area and entering it in print areas and print sizes. How a mug order goes from the product page to your sublimation template is in a mug printing business, and sublimating shirts as well in sublimation shirt design size.

Questions about mug design sizes

Sources

The sizes in the table were compiled on 20 October 2026 from these printers’ and blank makers’ published print areas, templates and product pages:

• 4over4, What’s the printable area on a standard 11 oz mug?: the 11 oz wrap and a single side; and the total print area for its mugs, with the 15 oz wrap.
• Gelato, What is the printable area for mugs?: 11 oz, 15 oz, slim, enamel and tapered latte mugs in millimetres; and print size for drinkware, on bleed.
• Gearment, Mug products: the 11 oz print file in pixels.
• Inkthreadable, General printing questions: 11 oz and 15 oz print areas in centimetres.
• Cloudprinter, Mug: the 11 oz print area and the blank.
• Printful’s product catalogue, 11 oz and 15 oz white glossy mug: the wrap of each size.
• Cricut, Mug Press FAQ: the largest design on its 15 oz mugs and the space to leave at the handle.
• Coastal Business Supplies, 11 oz and 15 oz RhinoCoat mug templates, and its mug-sized transfer paper.
• Swing Design, Orca AAA 11 oz sublimation mug: the blank’s print area.
• The 11 oz mug’s height and width: Fourthwall’s white glossy mug, Zazzle’s basic mug and Vistaprint’s white mug with full-colour wrap.