Most of our print runs go straight into our own bays, but a growing share leaves as finished panels. Sign companies without a wide-format printer, agencies producing campaign graphics for vehicles in other cities, and fleet operators with in-house fitters all buy print from us. We supply panels cut to a panel map, laminated, labelled by position and rolled for transport, with the panel map so the fitter knows where every piece goes.
- Full and partial vehicle wrap panels on 3M IJ180 or Avery MPI cast film, laminated
- Contour-cut printed logos and graphics, ready to apply
- Perforated one-way vision window film, printed
- Reflective print for Chapter 8 and high-visibility work
- Replacement panels for existing wraps where we hold or can build the template
- Event, exhibition and interior graphics through the Cube Branding group
We print on HP latex to HP's colour profiles, and we are HP accredited for large-format print. Latex ink is dry the moment it leaves the printer, so panels can be laminated and fitted without the outgassing wait that solvent print needs, and the colour is stable in sunlight. The film underneath is cast, 3M IJ180 or Avery MPI, because calendered film shrinks and lifts on the big flat panels of a van or trailer within its first year.
The laminate is the part trade buyers skip to save money and regret. It protects the print from stone chips, wash chemicals and UV, and it is the reason a printed curtainsider is still bright in year five. We will not supply unlaminated print for a commercial vehicle, because it fades within a year and the customer comes back to whoever fitted it.
As a 3M Select Gold Partner the film, ink and laminate combination is one 3M has audited as a system, which is what puts the manufacturer's warranty behind the finished graphic rather than behind the roll of film alone.
A fleet is a colour-matching exercise. The red on van fifty has to match the red on van one, printed eighteen months apart on a different roll. We profile the printer to the film and laminate combination, hold brand references on file and proof against them, and print fleet batches together where the schedule allows. If your brand colour is a Pantone reference, tell us; if it is a bottle or a business card, send that and we will build the reference from it.
Proofs are checked on screen and, for fleet standards, as a printed swatch on the actual film before the batch runs. A colour that looks right on a monitor and wrong on a laminated panel in daylight is a common and avoidable problem.
We work from vector artwork where it exists, PDF, AI or EPS, with fonts outlined and colours specified. For photographic panels we need high-resolution images sized for the panel. If you have a panel map of the vehicle, send it; if not, we build one from the vehicle model and year so seams and fittings are planned before print. If you have a logo on a business card and nothing else, we will rebuild it.
- {01}Send the files. Vector artwork or high-resolution images, brand colour references, and the vehicle model or your own panel map.
- {02}Panel map. Artwork placed on a template of the exact vehicle. We flag anything that will land on a seam, a handle or a fitting.
- {03}Proof. A proof of every panel for sign off. For fleet standards, a printed swatch on the film.
- {04}Print and laminate. HP latex on cast film, laminated, trimmed to the map.
- {05}Despatch or fit. Rolled and labelled for your fitter with the panel map, or booked into our bays.
Sign companies use us when a job needs cast film and lamination their own kit cannot produce. Agencies use us for campaign graphics going to vehicles in Manchester or Glasgow, fitted by a local installer working from our panel map. Fleet operators with in-house fitters buy panels to our standard so a van fitted in their depot matches a van fitted here. In each case the print, the film and the laminate are the same as we would fit ourselves, because we would rather the graphic lasted five years with our name on the invoice.
Everything is produced at 153 Croydon Road, Caterham, off the A22 near junction 6 of the M25. Trade customers collect, or we despatch by courier. If the vehicle can come to us, we will fit it too.
Questions people ask before they call
Vehicle wrap printing
Tell us the vehicle or send your panel map, the artwork and whether you need it fitted or supplied. We'll come back with a proof and a price. 020 8944 6360.
