--- title: "Direct Glass Bottle Printing, 50 Pieces | Sun Studio Dubai" description: "Fifty glass bottles printed direct with artwork built up in relief: a short run with no minimum order, and why a label was the wrong answer." url: https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/printed-glass-bottles-birthday-dubai/ type: project site: Sun Studio Dubai --- # Embossed Direct Printing on 50 Glass Bottles A birthday brief with one clear instruction: every drink served that night should arrive in a bottle carrying artwork from the game he plays. Sun Studio printed 50 glass bottles direct: a skull threaded with glowing veins, built up in relief so you can feel it under your fingers. ![Glass bottle printed direct with a skull design built up in relief so it can be felt](https://www.sunstudio.ae/cases/gamer-bottles.jpg) ## Project snapshot - **Client:** A private commission - **Location:** Dubai - **Material:** Glass bottles - **Printing service:** Cylindrical & 360° printing - **Application:** Bottles served at a private party - **Quantity:** 50 bottles - **Production:** Direct UV printing with artwork built up in relief ## The brief The artwork was the point of the evening, and the design had to feel physical rather than read as a picture on a bottle. ![One of the finished bottles with its cap fitted, the blue skull and cracked red lava artwork printed onto the clear glass](https://www.sunstudio.ae/gallery/bottles-30.jpg) ## Our approach The bottles were printed direct rather than labelled, so the artwork belongs to the glass. The design was built up in layers to give actual relief, so the raised veins can be felt as well as seen. ## Production detail Fifty bottles is a quantity most print houses will not quote. Screen printing glass needs a screen for every colour, and on artwork like this the setup alone costs more than the whole job at that volume, which is how a minimum order quantity gets invented. A label was the obvious fallback and the wrong answer: it announces itself as a sticker the moment a guest picks the bottle up. ## The result 50 bottles that were part of the party rather than packaging for it. **50**Bottles **Service used** - [Cylindrical & 360° Printing](https://www.sunstudio.ae/services/cylindrical-printing-dubai/) **Read next** - [Screen Printing Minimum Order Quantities in the UAE](https://www.sunstudio.ae/insights/screen-printing-minimum-order-quantities-uae/) ## Related projects - [Ajmal Perfumes](https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/ajmal-perfumes-aerosol-can-printing/) (Fragrance & Cosmetics) - [Bar & event glassware](https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/branded-bar-and-event-glassware-dubai/) (Events) - [Egyptian World Cup edition](https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/egyptian-world-cup-perfume-bottle-printing/) (Fragrance & Cosmetics) **More work** - [All projects](https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio) --- *This is the Markdown rendering of a page on sunstudio.ae. The canonical version is the HTML at https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/printed-glass-bottles-birthday-dubai/.* **Sun Studio**: direct-to-surface UV printing. Al Quoz First, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Phone and WhatsApp +971 4 346 7422 · info@sunstudio.ae · [https://www.sunstudio.ae/contact/](https://www.sunstudio.ae/contact/) A curated index of this site for agents: https://www.sunstudio.ae/llms.txt