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Printed Van Graphics : DJM Carpentry
Here is the first rough proof of a van I should be doing this week, a full colour wood to brick effect with cutout effect letters, all designed in photoshop.
the print will be cut to fit the shape of the panel.
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Finished, with a few minor changes………….
CMY Maxx print 2500mm long
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Nice looking job. Bloody convenient panels aren’t they? What sort of van is it?
Edited bit…If you look at the rear panel Lee…There’s the make and model…IDIOT.
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Thanks Leeroy…………..Just put that little mistake down to a BrainFart……
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very nice Andrew! 😎
When I first saw this I was intrigued by the design – and now we can see it in the flesh it looks great too!
The dawing shows the print on the side having a square front edge and, of course, it looks so much ‘sweeter’ trimmed to the panel – but why didn’t you take it right to the back of the side panels too? – just askin’ 😀
With regard to the side prints – I also notice that the text doesn’t run parrallel to the brick pattern (ref. the baseline of the lower line of white text over the brick) – I guess this is to compensate for the ‘lie’ of the vehicle…but how did you calculate the difference? was the vehicle drawing good enough to design to – or did you have to work it out from the vehicle itself?
brill job! 😎
more please…
mikethesign
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Mike
Thanks for the comments, now I will try and answer them………..
I was using the vehicle outline 2002+ cd, the customer measured the height of the panel (660mm) from a van already at the dealers premises, I then sized the van outlines up to size and printed the job, but since there was no van to totally measure, I thought it would be fine, BUT the print ended up a little short, I lined the panel with the front of the section, which i thought would look better than leaving the space here…..I had then planned to print a small section and add to the back, BUT once again the customer arrived early to collect and I had no time….
The brick was an image taken from a web site, and HANDS UP here….I missed the angle problem……….
But the customer was happy, and since he only gave me 3 hours from initial measurements until he collected it, wasn’t too bad…..Good old Maxx and unattended printing.
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Nice Andrew, turned out better on the van than it looked on the draft.
Nice one.
Your Maxx machine, is it a 54″?. What was the approx package cost?. i`m curious as so far the stuff i`ve seen you do looks impressive and you seem to wax lyrical about this machine.
Cheers.
Rod.
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Rod
The Maxx is only 36″ wide, but so far this is not a problem since you can panel like the edge.
The cost was approx 22k, with foils and installation and a copy of Omega.
Its a brill machine, the seams are excellent.
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Looks sweet, when i saw your sketch at the top of the page I thought it could look a little bit “muddy” when printed, browns are a b**ch to get right. But it looks as per your sketch, nice job. I sub all my print out and there is always a worry that the colours will be slightly different than you expect. But I guess you dont have that problem ‘cos you print in-house.
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