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Avery Releases Improved Boat Wrap Vinyl
Avery Graphics Releases Improved Boat Wrap Vinyl
Consumers and BASS Pros have new option in vinyl wrap material
(Painesville, OH) August 1, 2007 – As the summer boating season heats up, Avery Graphics is releasing an improved vinyl for wrapping boats. Consumers have entered the wrap market, having boats, cars and motorcycles personalized with images and graphics they choose. “When we began wrapping cars, our initial customer base was large corporations with fleets and small businesses wrapping the company car,” said Mike Grillo, President of Road Rage Designs in Spring Grove, IL north of Chicago. “We have been in the wrap and wide-format market for 15 years and have seen a surge in consumers having their personal boats, cars and trucks wrapped.”
MPI 1800 EZ is a glossy cast vinyl film that now features Avery Dennison’s Easy Apply™ Technology making it easier to apply to gelcoats and fiberglass surfaces. “Applying boat wraps with MPI 1800 EZ is now even easier,” said Lance Hutt, Global Product Manager for Digital Products, Avery Dennison Graphics & Reflective Products Division. “MPI 1800 EZ is the ideal solution for marine watercraft that require permanent long-term adhesion and premium print performance.”
Highlights of Easy Apply’s features include:
A glossy, paint-like appearance that is optimized for digital printing and is supported by an extensive online ICC Color Profile library so images really pop.
An air egress technology that allows air outflow, reducing wrinkles and bubbles.
The face film is compatible with solvent, eco-solvent and UV-Curable ink jet printers.
5-year durability with DOL 1000 overlaminate.
Avery Graphics ICS Performance Guarantee Warranty provides worry free application for salt and fresh water (above the water line) applications.Recreational boating is a major consumer goods industry generating $39.5 billion in sales and services during 2006 with almost 73 million adults participating in boating and approximately 18 million recreational boats in use in 2006.
Custom boat wraps aren’t just for consumers–all anglers registered for BASS Elite Series, Bassmaster Major, and Bassmaster Classic events must have a wrapped boat. Over three days and five telecasts of the 2006 Bassmaster Classic, more than 9.5 million viewers tuned in to the programming on ESPN2.
For more information on MPI 1800 EZ, including pricing and roll sizes, printers can contact their local distributor. Information is also available online at http://www.averygraphics.com.
Avery Dennison Graphics & Reflective Products Division features a broad range of products for digital printing, traditional printing technologies, reflective and cut signage applications. Its products are used in applications ranging from promotional graphics such as signage, banners, labels, exhibits, displays and bus-wrap markings to long-term, durable applications such as fleet markings, backlit signs, vehicle striping and graphics. The Division is a part of Avery Dennison Corporation, a FORTUNE 500 company based in Pasadena, California, with 2006 sales of $5.6 billion. Products offered by Avery Dennison include: Fasson brand self-adhesive materials; Avery Dennison and Paxar brand products for the retail and apparel industries; Avery brand office products and graphics imaging media; specialty tapes, peel-and-stick postage stamps, and labels for a wide variety of automotive, industrial and durable goods applications. For more information on the Graphics & Reflective Products Division, visit http://www.averygraphics.com.
Bass Boat wrapped with Avery Graphics MPI 1800 EZ by H2O Hydro Wraps in Hendersonville, TN
Photos from Road Rage Designs in Spring Grove, IL. It is a Fountain boat recently wrapped with MPI 1800 EZ and DOL 1000 for a couple who wanted updated graphics on the boat.
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I now want my boat wrapped.
wheres the best place to buy this? -
Cox Plastic supply Avery vinyls Steve
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my question would be that boats have recesses and various other odd shaped areas that the vinyl would have to be manipulated into covering.
once in place the vinyl should be heated up to a minimum of 100-170 degrees for the wrap to cure/set/loose memory the wrap. this being the case… will these fibre glass and the like boats not be effected by the intense heat created on a single area of the boat, or would that not be an issue to worry about? -
When fibreglass bonds it gets really hot anyway due to the chemical reaction, so I would imagine it would be fine.
You wouldnt want to burn a £70000 boat now -
Let us have a pic when you done steve 🙂
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Ive never wrapped anything yet, so would have to get it done or have a go myself but it needs a good barnacle scrape first.
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Hi,
who would stock this vinyl in the UK ?I’m not sure who sells Avery.
I want to order 50m immediately.
Thanks,
Cheryl -
Hi,
I got so eager to get some, I didn’t read that Glen said Cox stock Avery. 😳I’ll contact them tomorrow. 😀
Cheryl
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quote Steve Underhill:When fibreglass bonds it gets really hot anyway due to the chemical reaction, so I would imagine it would be fine.
You wouldnt want to burn a £70000 boat nowthanks for the reply steve… your probably right steve, it was after i posted i said to myself… "i don’t see Avery creating a boat wrap, then bettering it, it there maybe damage to the boats during application" 😳 specially £70k ones at that :lol1:
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On the other hand it may be a special adhesive on the wrap that bonds at lower temperatures because of the very reason you said Rob,
Anyway I’m offering a free demo boat to anyone who wants to try it and a holiday in Cornwall in a tent on my newly laid front lawn, Ill throw in breakfast an cups of tea.
I tell you what though its something worth thinking about for me, especially where I live its boat city.
would just have to go on a wrapping course.
Id imagine you would have no trouble getting jobs in Cornwall the possibilities are endless, engine wraps are another possibility.
In fact if anyone here prints wrap vinyl and wants to price me one up roughly i would be interested, its an 80HP Yamaha so average sized engine dont know about M sq though. -
just had a look at those guys applying to the bottom boat wrap. they "look" like they are applying over the vinyl stripes already in position? (maybe not vinyl)
also, there is little on that big boat to be wrapped as the underside wouldnt need done. in the case of the small powerboat at the top then yeh, needs wrapped. but ide imagine many big boats to just need flood coated to an extent. -
Id imagine you would only wrap to where the anti fouling line is anyway as barnacles etc on the wrap would just pull it off over time, so it wouldn’t be a full wrap, also they would have to suspend the boat in the air to wrap underneath, boats are usually lifted with big straps or supported on wooden chocks so always part of the underside is inaccessible.
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I just looked again at the pic, its on the trailer so they cannot possibly "wrap" it, just a flood coat as you say Rob.
That’s even better I may be able to cope with that. -
Steve if this performs like the 1005EZ you don’t need a course. The air regression channels make it pretty easy. You throw it on and as long as you aren’t getting creases all the bubbles will come out once you go over it the second time. Peace of cake.
You can see the thread I posted on my wrapping training. Did the side of the car rather quickly and I haven’t fully done a wrap before.
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Drawn a blank with Spandex & Robert Horne 🙁
Can anyone suggest others that may possibly stock the vinyl ?
Cheers,
Cheryl
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