It is true. We can wrap just about anything as long as the surface of the item is one on which the vinyl material can properly adhere. This includes almost all painted surfaces, metals, laminates, glass, and some plastics. If you aren’t sure if your item can be wrapped, give us a call and we would be happy to advise you. Our design and installation teams are experts at determining the best materials and designs for wrapping odd-shaped and unique items.
Wrapping specialty items is our specialty.
We know there are lots of choices for our customers when choosing a vehicle wrap or graphics company. Why use Iconography? You can read some testimonials from our customers. You’ll find that these are some of the reasons our customers keep returning to us for all of their graphics needs:
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The process for wrapping specialty items is very similar to that of a vehicle wrap, or any other wrap, with a very important first step.
There are 4 basic steps to creating speciality wraps:
TEMPLATING – first, a special template must be made to fit your item. This requires detailed measurements to be taken by professionals who understand how the curvatures in 3D objects, and the elasticity of wrapping materials will impact the printing and installation process.
DESIGN – the first thing that needs to be done is a design concept, followed by building the art files with will be used to print or produce the final design. Designs for most wraps can include graphics, photos, text and logos.
PRODUCTION – this phase may include large format digital printing, laminating and/or machine-cutting vinyl on a plotter depending on the design and how the wrap is going to be installed and on what type of surface. Photos and graphics that include several colors or gradient designs will be digitally printed and them laminated to protect them against minor scratching and UV fading.
INSTALLATION – during this phase your adhesive-backed vinyl is expertly applied to your car, tray, or other speciality item. The difficulty and complexity of the item to be wrapped depends on the size and shape of the item. The easiest installations are on large, flat surfaces, such as walls and box trucks. The smaller the item is, or items with lots of curves and angles are much more difficult. But no matter how difficult, we can do it – from accordions and violins to mailboxes and library bins – there’s not much we can’t wrap!
We offer the industry’s leading wrap materials – top quality 3M and Oracal print media, vinyl and laminates, and top-of-the line printing on our 6-color Roland XR640 SolJet Pro Printers.
Speciality Wraps: What Are They?
Speciality wraps refer to any item that is not a flat surface, or is not a typical vehicle. Flat surfaces are easy to design wrap to print and install, and most standard vehicles have templates available for vehicle wrap designers to work with.
Why Are Speciality Wrap Templates Important?
But what happens when you need to design a wrap on two dimensional paper and printing to fit on a real world three dimensional item? Lots of time, measurements and expertise come in to play here. A quick google search of wrap templates will lead you to many tutorials on how to make a vehicle wrap design, and they almost always start with “get a vehicle wrap template”…but what if a template doesn’t exist for your vehicle or the item you want to wrap? That’s when you call Iconography, the vehicle wrap experts. We’ve been wrapping cars since the days before vehicle wrap templates existed. Back in the old days, we had to make the templates ourselves. We have tailored that knowledge to being able to wrap just about any object you can imagine.
