This is home. We've been printing and installing here since the mid-90s, and a good share of the wrapped vehicles you pass on State Street, Milpas, and the 101 came out of our bay.
Santa Barbara is harder on vinyl than most places, and shops that don't work here every day get it wrong. The combination is specific: intense year-round UV, salt air off the channel, and vehicles that park outside because covered parking is scarce and expensive. Material that performs fine in a mild inland climate gives up early here.
That shapes what we specify. Cast films with UV-stable laminates, edges wrapped rather than trimmed flush, and honest conversations about where you park. It also shapes what we tell people about care — shade and hand washing matter more here than almost anywhere, and we'd rather say so up front than replace your wrap in year three.
Being local also means the conversation happens with someone who has seen how these materials behave here over three decades — not a call center reading a script. We work by appointment, and we can bring material samples to you so you're choosing finishes in daylight against your actual vehicle rather than off a website photo.
Pickup and delivery is available if you want it. Most customers drop the vehicle off and collect it themselves, but for Santa Barbara jobs we can also pick it up and return it finished — useful if you'd rather not lose a morning to the round trip, or if a business can't spare a driver for it. Just ask when you book.
Restaurant, retail, and hospitality vehicles that need to look right in a town where appearance is currency.
Contractors, plumbers, landscapers, and home services — the vehicles that need to be readable from a driveway across the street.
Years of production for the Santa Barbara MTD network. See bus advertising.
Riviera and Mesa driveways are full of cars that deserve better than factory silver.
We're a Santa Barbara studio and a division of Grayphics, printing here since the mid-1990s. We work by appointment rather than as a walk-in shop, so call 805.899.2385 and we'll set up a time or get you a quote over the phone.
Three to five business days for a full wrap, often less for partials and cut vinyl. We schedule fleets in waves so you're never short more than one vehicle.
Yes, for Santa Barbara — it's an option, not the only way to do it. Most customers drop off and collect themselves; if you'd rather we handle the round trip, say so when you book. Either way the vehicle needs to be washed first, since vinyl bonds to whatever is actually on the surface.
Yes, meaningfully. UV is the number one ager of vinyl. A wrap that lives in a garage will comfortably outlast an identical one that parks on an uncovered lot on Chapala.
We do — we keep fleet specifications on file so vehicles added years apart still match, and we schedule re-wraps around your operating calendar.
Yes — Goleta, Montecito and Carpinteria, Ventura, and the broader Central Coast.
First place in the Signs of the Times National Vehicle Graphics Contest for a signshop vehicle, and second place for a unique vehicle. Both are linked from our homepage.