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Vehicle graphics

Vehicle graphics: printed panels, partial wraps and decals

Q: What's the difference between vehicle graphics and a vehicle wrap?

A wrap covers panels edge to edge in printed or coloured film. Graphics are applied elements (printed panels, cut logos, lettering, window film) that sit on the vehicle's own colour. Graphics cost less, fit faster and often communicate better. Wraps give total control and cover tired paint.

Q: How much do vehicle graphics cost?

Cut lettering and a logo is the smallest job; a printed partial wrap on a medium van is the largest. We itemise design, print and fitting.

Q: How long do vehicle graphics last?

Printed and laminated graphics three to five years; cut cast vinyl five to seven. Unlaminated print is the false economy: it fades and scratches within a year or two.

Q: Can you put graphics on windows?

Yes, on rear and rear-side windows using perforated one-way vision film. Not on the front door windows or windscreen, which have legal visibility requirements.

Q: Can graphics be removed?

Yes, with heat and the right technique. Cast film comes off clean. Old, sun-baked calendered film is harder and slower.

Q: Do you design vehicle graphics?

Yes. We build the artwork on a template of your exact vehicle before anything is printed.

Vehicle graphics sit between sign writing and a full wrap. Printed panels of colour and imagery, contour-cut logos, one-way window film, stripes, decals and partial wraps that use the van's own colour as the canvas. It's the most flexible way to brand a vehicle and, done with judgement, the most cost-effective. We design, print and fit all of it indoors at Caterham.

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“Like us they love a ridiculous brief that needs to be completed yesterday, allowing their creative juices to run wild. We honestly couldn’t find a better partner when it comes to vehicle wrapping and signage.”

James, Shred & Butta

What it involves

Materials

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Print film is 3M IJ180 or Avery MPI 1105 cast, printed on HP latex and laminated with the matching over-laminate. Cut film is 3M or Avery cast. Window film is perforated one-way vision. Reflective film for Chapter 8 work is a conforming grade. All fitted to manufacturer spec with the manufacturer's warranty.

London Timber Buildings VW Caddy rear door graphics

Vesta Construction Group VW Caddy sign writing

Shred & Butta camouflage Land Rover Defender wrap

Porsche Cayenne wrapped at the Caterham unit

Wrapped double-decker buses for the Platinum Jubilee Pageant

Paint protection film on a Blacklane Mercedes

Red Bull can-shaped promotional vehicle wrap

Lucozade van wrap outside the Wrap Cube unit in Caterham

Highway maintenance van with Chapter 8 reflective chevrons

Options

Designed to be read at speed

Vehicle graphics are read in three seconds by someone doing thirty miles an hour. That changes how you design them.

One clear message per side [01]

One clear message per side

What you do, where, and how to call.

Type big enough to read from the car behind [02]

Type big enough to read from the car behind

phone number and web address on the rear doors first, everything else second.

Contrast over cleverness [03]

Contrast over cleverness

A subtle tonal design is invisible in traffic.

Respect the panel lines [04]

Respect the panel lines

We build artwork on a map of the exact vehicle so seams, rivets, handles and fuel flaps don't cut through a word.

Don't fill it [05]

Don't fill it

Empty space is what makes the logo pop.

Which job

The kinds of graphics we produce

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Printed partial wraps.

Sides and rear printed with brand colour, imagery or pattern, laminated, and fitted with clean edges on panel lines. The bonnet and roof are left in the vehicle colour. This is what most trades and service vans should have.

Van wrapping

Contour-cut printed logos.

For logos with gradients, photos or more colours than cut vinyl can sensibly handle. Printed on 3M IJ180, laminated, cut to the logo's outline.

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Cut vinyl lettering and logos.

Solid-colour graphics cut from cast film.

Van sign writing

One-way vision window graphics.

Perforated film on rear and side windows: printed on the outside, see-through from inside. Legal on rear and rear-side glass, not on the front doors or windscreen.

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Stripes, accents and decals.

Racing stripes, bonnet stripes, roof accents, model badges, dealer and campaign decals.

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Reflective and Chapter 8.

Conforming reflective chevrons and markings for vehicles working on or beside the highway.

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Interior and unusual surfaces.

Dashboards, door cards, tailgate interiors, plus the vans, trailers, mopeds and exhibition vehicles that turn up here and need something nobody has a template for.

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How it runs

How a graphics job runs

{01} Brief

Vehicle, roof and fittings, your artwork or a description of what you want, and any deadline.

{02} Panel map

We template the exact vehicle. Every rivet, handle, fuel flap and sliding door rail is on the map before a designer touches it.

{03} Design and proof

Artwork built or checked on the map. You see every side. Two or three rounds of changes is normal; we'd rather fix it on screen than on a van.

{04} Print, laminate, cut

HP latex print on cast film, laminated, contour-cut on the plotter. Cut vinyl weeded and pre-masked.

{05} Fit

Indoors at Caterham on a clean vehicle. Panels squared across doors so lettering reads straight with the doors open and shut. Post-heated into recesses.

{06} Check and care

Every edge. Care sheet in writing. Wait 48 to 72 hours before the first wash.

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Fleet graphics

Consistency is the whole job. Once the template and proof exist for your model, every vehicle gets the same graphics in the same positions. If a panel gets damaged, we reprint and replace that panel, not the whole van. Fleets with mixed models get a graphics standard that translates the same identity across a Caddy, a Custom and a Sprinter without looking like three different companies.

Before you book

Worth knowing before you book

Before you book

Mistakes we see on vehicles that come in for a redo

None of them cost more to avoid.

They cost a panel map and someone who's fitted a few hundred vans.

Phone numbers in a thin font at rear-window height, invisible from the car behind.

Eleven services listed down the side in 40mm type. Nobody reads it. Pick one.

Website in pale grey on white "to look premium". It looks like nothing.

A logo placed across the sliding door seam, so it splits every time the door opens.

Unlaminated print that's faded to pastel on the roof and sunny side within eighteen months.

Graphics wrapped over the rear-door hinge line, cracking at the fold.

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Good to know

Graphics for cars

Not everything here is a van.

Motorsport liveries, dealer demonstrator graphics, campaign cars, stripes on a Mustang, a de-badge and re-badge, a Union Jack roof on a Mini.

Cars come with tighter curves and more visible edges, so the same design rules apply and the fitting is slower.

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Questions people ask before they call

What's the difference between vehicle graphics and a vehicle wrap?

How much do vehicle graphics cost?

How long do vehicle graphics last?

Can you put graphics on windows?

Can graphics be removed?

Do you design vehicle graphics?

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