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  • Use a non laminated printing material to wrap a vehicle.

    Posted by Daniel Evans on July 4, 2018 at 9:53 am

    Hi/Hello Everyone

    Hope everyone is having a good morning.

    I’m going to wrap my old van, just pain white and then add some cut graphics after, it’s a bit of a dirty white at the moment, it’s practically beige. Rather than buy more material, I have some white MDX sitting here, could I use this without laminating it and then overlay my graphics at a later date? or would it need laminating? If so I might as well just buy some white film or print the graphics directly to it.

    The reason for doing it white and then overlaying graphics was so that I can change it every so often rather than wrapping the van again and again.

    Thanks

    Dan

    Daniel Evans replied 5 years, 10 months ago 6 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Alex Crosbie

    Member
    July 4, 2018 at 10:25 am

    Hi dan
    If you like tearing your hair out then try and apply wrap material Unlaminated! I promise you’ll wish you hadn’t tried it!

    It tends to crease very easily and if you ever want to remove it then it’s a lot harder too.

    Regards

    Alex

  • Daniel Evans

    Member
    July 4, 2018 at 10:51 am

    Thanks Alex

    I might just print it and laminate it then, would look better in the long run anyway.

  • Simon Worrall

    Member
    July 4, 2018 at 11:08 am

    You will also scratch the hell out of the print.
    *Edit
    Oh sorry just re-read your post properly you were not going to print it.
    Either way its a bad idea for the reasons already stated.

  • Pane Talev

    Member
    July 4, 2018 at 3:04 pm

    I simply don’t do non-laminated digital print.

    Always laminate!

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    July 4, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    Best to get some white colour change wrapping vinyl instead

  • Warren Beard

    Member
    July 4, 2018 at 7:32 pm

    And you’re more than likely to damage the wrap when removing the cut vinyl on top making the exercise pointless and then having the hassle of removing the wrap anyway which as mentioned will be difficult.

  • Daniel Evans

    Member
    July 4, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    Thanks guys, gonna print my graphics and laminate them. I’ve got the material in stock so it makes more sense to do it that way. It was more of a time saver as I can’t laminate the graphics till next week

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