Recently NewSat came to us wanting to brand their vehicle and trailer. They have come to us in the past for stickers for a range of their Sattellitte products.
This customer had a concept ready of how they wanted the vehicle to look. However with any vehicle job of this scale we like to do a test print to ensure all of the colours used were accurate with this companies branding. We provided 2 samples using the CMYK and Pantone breakdown. This is important as we are a digital printer it is impossible for us to hit spot colours 100%. The customer was very happy with this option as they could match this to other branding they have had done. They eventually chose the CMYK option.
The vehicle and trailer were dropped to us on a Monday. The trailer came to us a few weeks after being spray painted. With anything painted it needs to be properly done and given at least 3-4 weeks for the paint to cure. One of the dangers of this curing time not being achieved along with a proper paint job is on removal of the graphics paint may be peeled.
By having the vehicles for the week we were able to measure the graphics exactly before they went to print. For the print we used a an Avery Fleet film which was laminated. The reason this was ideal in this application is because the graphics were contour cut yet they had to be heated to conform with the grooves on the car.
The installation was handled by Jason our Avery Gold Certified installer. As part of this install we also had to remove the old graphics on the vehicle. On removal there was ghosting of the old stickers. This is caused because the paint under the old graphics are protected from the prints so the paint around it fades. To give the best possible finish Jason did a light buff in order to remove any ghosting and have the impact taken away from our graphics.
The actual install including the ghosting removal and cleaning of the vehicle took about a day and the time afforded to us allowed the client to have the best possible finish. For more information on how this product can help your business visit our vehicle signage page.
