Great Idea. I wish I had thought of it first. My brother uses cafepress and has done some mugs and the tile coasters and a few other things. They come out really nice. He did a mug a couple years ago, of one of his hockey photos. He deliberately kept running it through the dishwasher and putting tea and coffee into it to see how it would hold up. Did very well. It did stain, I think. But, then again, so has every coffee cup that we have. The images did hold up very well under repeated washings. With all the photos that I have in my portfolio of digital stuff I have often thought of doing it myself. Even if just for myself. Incidentally, the coasters are just ceramic tiles with pads on them so they don't scratch your table. Peel the pads off and you could tile a bathroom with them. Perfect for the obsessed chipper. I actually thought of ordering about a dozen or so of them with different photos on them and gluing them to a board and framing them. Might make a great wall hanging. Good Luck, the stuff looks nice.
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