Careful consideration should be taken in selecting a vehicle wrap for your company. This article is taken from a series of articles training vehicle wrap installers to create better work and improve their wrap installation skills – so we’ll focus on the business side of the vehicle wrap installer. What better way to advertise your services than of course driving around with a full wrap?
What do you Need for Work?
Wrapping your work vehicle is an obvious choice above a random car you have access to. Your chosen work vehicle would get the widest of exposure because of the amount of use it would receive getting supplies, traveling to work sites, and essentially being on display where you need it. Consider it your mobile portfolio to show off your work.
Display Your Message Large
For maximum impact your choice will need to also have adequate sized body panels to get the most bang for your buck. Vans work wonderfully for this purpose as they have large blank areas which can easily re-purposed to fit a vehicle wrap. Cars and trucks on the other hand do not work as well for this purpose as many have long surfaces with many contours which leaves you less room to get creative in your vehicle wrap.
How Long Will it Take?
Finally, consider the amount of time it’ll take to complete a wrap on certain body type. While the fact remains anything can really accommodate a full vehicle wrap, certain vehicles such as a Hummer can significantly increase the time it’ll take to complete a wrap installation. If the choice is there, your time is best served not being consumed installing graphics to extreme angles and extra complex compound forms.
In my experience the best vehicles to use to promote a vehicle wrap business, whether a full service wrap facility or mobile installation contractor, are cargo vans or passenger cars with a boxy appearance. They’ll get you to the job site, pack your rolls of vinyl, provide ease of installation, and give your business a great large advertisement everywhere you drive.
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When you look at a well done completed vehicle, it’s easy to think it was all one big piece graphic vinyl. After all, the job of a good vehicle wrap installer is to make the image appear without seams and akin to a custom paint job. The fact of the matter is a vehicle wrap before it’s installed, comes in a series of different sections or panels. In training to wrap vehicles you’ll be faced with a kit with all sorts of parts and it’s up to you to fit them together in the best possible way.
The first step one should take is to get the computer mockup of the design to get a visual on what it’s supposed to look like and attempt to paste them up in the closest possible way to the computer graphic version. Be aware that the scale design supplied to you may not exactly represent what is directly in front of you in three dimensions.
Generally in vehicle wrap graphics these are the parts you’ll be supplied with or asked to make with your sign printer: bumpers, driver’s side, passenger’s side, hood/bonnet, roof, trunk or rear and the windows. Many of these panels for your vehicle wrap can be create as a single piece which fits largely over the body panels of the vehicle wrap, while in other instances a certain section is created from tiles.
Tiled vehicle graphics can be described as several overlapping sheets of vehicle wrap graphics that are placed one on top of another to achieve a larger finished image. This is done for different reasons depending on the circumstances of the actual vehicle wrap installation. It may be tiled in order to conserve media by fitting the most panels into a roll vehicle wrap vinyl to avoid waste or it may simply be the driver’s side panel (as an example) is too large to be printed as one solid panel.
When fitting these various vehicle wrap panels together it’s good to consider the overlapping areas and spend your timing getting all the separate parts in the right place to get your installation looking great and as though it were one giant piece. This same time for consideration can be carried over to the design and printing of the vehicle wrap, as it is a series of connecting panels on a three dimensional curved surface – the designer/printer should try to avoid closely connecting graphics between one section to another.
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