A wrap is a rolling billboard that works every hour your vehicle is on the road. We design it, print it, laminate it, and install it under one roof — which means nobody gets to blame anybody else when something needs to be right.
Most wrap jobs pass through three companies: a designer, a printer, and an installer. Every handoff is a place for color to shift, panels to come up short, and responsibility to get fuzzy. We've been doing digital imaging since the mid-90s and large format printing long enough to have won a national vehicle graphics contest with it — so we kept the whole chain in-house.
Full wraps cover every painted panel. Maximum impact, maximum color control, and the factory finish stays covered underneath. Partial wraps cover the high-visibility areas — rear, rear quarters, and a portion of the sides — and use your vehicle's existing paint as part of the design. Done well, a partial reads like a full wrap from across a parking lot at a serious discount.
Every job runs on cast vinyl from 3M, Avery Dennison, Arlon, or Hexis with a matched overlaminate. Cast vinyl is the material that conforms to compound curves and stays put for years; calendered vinyl is the cheaper stuff that shrinks back off your rivets in eighteen months. We don't stock the cheap stuff.
Artwork built for the panel breaks, door handles, and body lines of your actual vehicle — not a flat rectangle stretched over a template and hoped for.
Wide-format print and lamination on site. Color proofed against your brand standards before a single panel goes on.
Trained installers, indoor bay, clean surface prep. Edges wrapped, rivets post-heated, seams placed where they disappear. On-site installs where the site permits — see fleet graphics.
Wraps come off cleanly when the campaign changes or the truck gets sold. We remove and re-wrap fleets on rotation.
Most full wraps run three to five business days in the shop. Fleets get scheduled in waves so you're never short more than one vehicle at a time.
We get the year, make, model, and body configuration, then quote against real square footage — not a guess. Photos of your actual vehicle help, especially with ladder racks, roof equipment, and aftermarket bodywork.
You see a full-color layout on a scale drawing of your vehicle before anything prints. Revisions happen here, on screen, where they're free.
Panels print, cure, laminate, and get trimmed in-house. Color is checked against the proof under shop lighting.
The vehicle needs to arrive clean. Washed, with the road grime, mud, and dust off it — whether you drive it over or take us up on pickup and delivery, which we can offer throughout Santa Barbara County. We follow that with a decontamination solvent wipe on every surface the vinyl will touch — but that step removes the last invisible layer of wax and residue, not a month of dirt. Vinyl is unforgiving about what's underneath it, and a clean vehicle lets our installers stay clean too, which is half of what separates a sharp install from a contaminated one. From there, panels go on in sequence, edges get wrapped, and everything gets post-heated so it stays down.
Price tracks vehicle size, coverage, and design complexity — a compact sedan and a box truck are very different amounts of material and labor. Use the cost estimator for an instant ballpark, then call for an exact number.
Five to seven years with cast vinyl and reasonable care. Sun exposure is the single biggest factor, which matters in Santa Barbara. Park in shade when you can and hand wash rather than running through brush washes.
Three products people mix up constantly. A standard wrap is colored vinyl — it covers and shields the paint underneath, but you buy it for how it looks. Clear PPF is the reverse: a clear layer bought purely to stop rock chips, with no change to appearance. PPC film (Protective Color Change Film) is both — real impact protection in a film that carries color. We offer wraps and PPC film. We don't offer clear PPF.
Vinyl covers the factory finish rather than harming it, and while it's on, the paint underneath is out of the sun. Removed professionally, healthy factory paint comes out looking much as it did going on, which often helps resale. One clarification worth making: a standard wrap isn't impact protection. If rock-chip defense is what you're after, ask about PPC film — a protective color change film that does both. We don't offer clear PPF.
If your vehicle's existing paint is a color you can design around, a partial wrap gets you most of the visual impact for meaningfully less money. If the paint is faded, damaged, or the wrong color entirely, go full.
Yes, and it's common. Vinyl is reversible — we remove it before turn-in and the paint underneath is untouched. Check your lease terms, but wraps are generally fine where paint changes are not.
Yes, please — washed, with road grime, mud, and dust off it, whether you're driving it over or we're collecting it. We do a decontamination solvent wipe on every panel before any vinyl goes on, but that step is for the last invisible layer of wax and residue, not for a month of dirt. Vinyl bonds to whatever is actually on the surface, and a clean vehicle keeps our installers clean too, which directly affects how sharp the finished install looks.
Vinyl follows the surface, so it won't hide a dent, and it can lift flaking or repainted areas on removal. We inspect first and tell you honestly what will and won't work.