Metamark MDX – is it any good?

[Cat Wood]

Hi Adam,

We’ve heard pretty good reviews from a few of our customers who switched over.
If you were curious about trying it, it is free to get a sample bundle roll sent over, that way you could see for yourself?

I know a big feature of the product is it’s price point in comparison to similar performance products.

Good luck with your search, let me know if I can help at all.

Cat.

[David Hammond]

We’ve used it on a number of jobs.

I will stress now, this ins’t a 3M material, and doesn’t behave much like it… however, it’s a fantastic bit of kit for the money.

We’ve used the MDX to wrap into recesses, and it work OK, got a few pockets of trapped air, despite it being the air channel version, but I would imagine that’s more down to user error.

We don’t really do full wraps, but for partial wraps, and working into recesses it’s a great film.

My only other criticism, is that the gloss laminate isn’t as glossy as their MG705 for MD5, but that’s not been an issue to date.

[Chris Nylan]

Hi Adam,

We have used it on some fleet vehicle part wraps. Its actually a good film. The sticking points ( :lol1: ) that we found were that the initial grab was high so it meant that when we come to repostion the film it became difficult. They may however have a version which allows easier movement of the film not sure.

Had a nice quality finish to it, its one of those, if you worked with the film day in, day out then you’d get used to its characteristics. However if you’re used to using IJ180, 380, 480 or the Avery films, then it will take a little while to adapt.

:thumbup2:

[Adam Armstrong]

Thanks for all the help guys.

[James Culpin]

Adam,
Further to Metamarks tests with a few selected companies I was one of the first to do a live job with it.
I did 2 transit vans both with a 2/3 wrap on them.

I used the standard material as I prefer to work with a ‘grabbier’ material. Leave me with confidence that it will stay in tight corners. I did comment about the gloss finish to them which was something they were looking into.

If cost is meaning that your not getting the job, having a play with the material to see if your comfortable with it is a no brainer.

Hope it works out for you.

[Stuart Drynan]

I will be testng this material out next week actualy 🙂

One of our customers has told us we need to lower the price massivly or risk the chance of loosing the contract so we have convinced them to move away from their prefered material in order to fall within the price range they wish.
Not really something we want to do as we have been usng the same materials for about 4 years now and know them well.

Is there much of a difference with fitting compaired to say, avery mp1104 / 1005?

[Jon Marshall]

As others have said, it doesn’t have the repositionable properties of what you’re used to so you may find it a bit harder to work with. I watched a couple of our guys do a taxi roof with it and it looked like hard work.