Custom Coaster Printing in Australia

Sometimes, the smallest details leave the biggest impression. Coasters are not just practical table accessories, they’re smart, subtle branding tools that help your business stand out. At Paperlust Print Shop, we create high-quality custom coasters designed for cafés, bars, restaurants, market stalls, events, and businesses across Australia. If you’re looking for premium coasters Australia businesses can rely on, we’re here to help.

Choosing custom coasters is a simple way to elevate your brand experience.

• Increase brand visibility, Your logo stays in sight with every sip.
• Enhance professionalism, High-quality personalised coasters add a refined touch to your venue or event.
• Cost-effective promotion, Promotional coasters provide repeated brand exposure without ongoing ad spend.
• Create memorable moments, Branded details help customers remember your business.

For hospitality venues, bar coasters and beer coasters strengthen your identity. Restaurants and wineries can elevate table settings with stylish wine coasters. Retailers and salons can use cup coasters in waiting areas to subtly reinforce brand presence.

Our coasters are suitable for a wide range of settings:

• Cafés, pubs, bars, and restaurants
• Product launches and promotional campaigns
• Seasonal promotions like christmas coasters
• Special celebrations with personalised wedding coasters

No matter the occasion, personalised coasters help create a cohesive and polished brand presentation.

When people search for paper coasters or cardboard coasters, they are usually looking for the same product: an absorbent drink coaster made from compressed pulp rather than plastic, cork, or acrylic. At Paperlust Print Shop, we use 355gsm beermat board for all printed coasters.

Beermat board is an absorbent pulpboard specifically engineered for wet-glass environments. Unlike a coated cardboard or thin card stock, it wicks moisture away from the base of a glass rather than letting it pool on a table. The uncoated surface accepts full-colour print well, giving you a clean, vivid result for logos, branding, and custom artwork without requiring a glossy laminate.

The 355gsm weight makes the coaster rigid enough to stay flat under a glass and hold its shape through a busy service, while remaining easy to stack and dispense from a standard coaster holder. If you have been comparing paper coasters to thicker board options, beermat board is the industry-standard substrate for venue and event use, not a compromise.

Every coaster we print is 95mm across. The 95mm dimension aligns with the standard Australian bar coaster size, fits standard coaster dispensers and holders, and leaves enough room for a logo, table number, or branded artwork without overcrowding the design.

We offer three shapes at that size:

• Square (95mm): clean, contemporary lines that suit cafes, function rooms, and corporate events.
• Rounded square (95mm): softened corners for a friendlier look, popular with bars and casual dining venues.
• Round (95mm): the classic beermat shape, most common in traditional pubs and breweries.

All three shapes use the same beermat board stock, the same production timeline, and the same pricing. Your choice of shape affects only the die cut, not the print method or the per-unit cost.

If you are supplying artwork for a round or rounded-square coaster, include 3mm of bleed outside the trim line and keep any critical design elements at least 3mm inside the cut edge to avoid cropping on the curve.

Beer coasters and bar coasters are the thick absorbent coasters placed under every glass in a pub or brewery. They serve two practical purposes: protecting the bar top from condensation and giving the venue a branded surface that is visible to every patron at the bar.

Beermat board is the standard material for this application. It absorbs moisture from the outside of a cold glass, preventing slipping and stopping ring marks from forming on timber, laminate, or stone bar tops.

Many bar operators rotate coasters seasonally to promote tap lists, upcoming releases, events, or promotional offers. A run of 100 to 500 coasters is a realistic order range for a mid-size venue, and with production completing in 3 to 7 working days after proof approval, a mid-week briefing can produce coasters ready for a weekend service.

We print on the front face only. If your bar programme requires branded custom stickers for bottles, taps, or packaging alongside your coasters, those are available from the same studio.

A restaurant or cafe coaster sits in front of every seated customer for the length of their visit. It carries whatever message, branding, or artwork you put on it, and it stays in view far longer than a menu a customer glances at once and sets aside.

Runs start from 50 units for smaller venues and scale up to 1,000 units at $0.93 per unit (inc. GST) for larger hospitality groups ordering across multiple sites or preparing for a busy season.

The uncoated surface of beermat board gives a warm, matte print result that complements food service contexts rather than competing visually with the table setting. This suits venues that want their printed material to feel considered rather than glossy.

If you are building a consistent brand identity across your venue, coasters pair naturally with printed menus and custom stickers for takeaway packaging, all available from the same studio and printable to a matching colour palette.

The 95mm size sits comfortably under cups, glasses, cans, and jugs without overhanging the edge of a standard saucer or side plate.

Wedding coasters have become a popular favour format because they are practical, compact, and easy to personalise with a couple's names, wedding date, or a short phrase. They can serve as a table decoration during a reception, sit at the bar during cocktail hour as a branded surface, or act as a place card when a guest name is printed on each one.

Because the minimum order is 50 units, a small reception with 80 to 100 guests can be accommodated with a single run. For larger weddings or events where you want variations across tables, such as different table numbers or personalised guest names, multiple small runs are possible.

Our production timeline of 3 to 7 working days after proof approval gives you a predictable window to plan around. If you are coordinating printed pieces across an event, ordering coasters at the same time as your invitations or menus means everything arrives together or close to it.

Personalised coasters are also a natural fit for corporate events, product launches, milestone birthday parties, and christenings. Any occasion where guests gather around a table benefits from a considered, printed surface that carries the event's identity.

If you need assistance with your artwork, our experienced design team can help. Whether it’s refining your existing file or creating something completely new, we ensure your custom coasters are print-ready and aligned with your brand. Visit our artwork service page for more detail.

Every order is printed at our studio in Oakleigh South, Victoria, and ships Australia wide. The board, the shapes, and the per unit pricing are the same wherever the box is going, so a Melbourne bar, a Brisbane cafe, a Gold Coast function venue, and a Sydney restaurant group all order from the same page at the same price. What changes between cities is the delivery leg, not the print.

We print coaster artwork in full colour on 355gsm beermat board, in 95mm square, rounded square, and round. Production runs 3 to 7 working days once you approve your digital proof, and delivery starts from there:

• Melbourne and Victoria: printed locally in Oakleigh South, the shortest delivery leg on the run.
• Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Adelaide, Perth, and Canberra: shipped from Melbourne with express and standard options. Metro addresses receive express delivery in 1 to 2 business days after production.
• Regional and remote addresses: allow 3 to 5 business days after production.

To have printed coasters in hand for a fixed date, place the order about two weeks out. That leaves comfortable room for proofing, the 3 to 7 working day production window, and the delivery leg to your state.

If you are ordering for venues in more than one city, run the full quantity as a single job and split the cartons on arrival. The per unit price steps down as the quantity rises, from $3.46 per unit at 50 to $0.93 per unit at 1,000, so one run of 1,000 costs less per coaster than two runs of 500.

Pair your promotional coasters with other branded materials such as custom stickers, business cards, signage, and banners. When your branding appears consistently across multiple touchpoints, it builds trust and reinforces recognition.

Make every drink placement an opportunity to connect with your customers. Order your custom coasters today and turn everyday moments into meaningful brand impressions.