How Are Custom Poker Chips Made

We start with a blank ceramic chip with a white face on either side and black edges. Then your custom design, created by our art team, is heat transferred onto each chip through a dye sublimation process.

First, the front and back of your artwork is digitally printed onto separate pieces of transfer paper. Blank poker chips are placed between the two pieces of transfer paper, aligned with the ink designs, and everything is put into a heat press. The heat press starts the dye sublimation process, which consists of a water-based ink turning into a gas and bonding with a polymer (in this case the ceramic chips). Once the chips are taken out of the heat press, the artwork is permanently fused to the poker chips.