Put the fleet to work on the road
Vehicle Graphics
Vehicle graphics is an installation discipline more than a printing one. The work splits into five production flows: full wraps, partial wraps, lettering and logos, perforated window film, and curtain-side tarpaulin. Three of them need roll-to-roll printing plus contour cutting, one needs cutting only, and one is heavy banner printing. Machine choice follows from that: an eco-solvent roll printer carries the volume, a print-and-cut model finishes short jobs on one machine, and a cutting table separates printed panels and magnetic sheet with a clean edge.
The decision that really sets the outcome is film and lamination. Deeply curved panels, door mouldings and tailgate recesses need cast film; calendered film shrinks back and lifts at the edges within months on those surfaces. Prints must outgas before lamination — jobs that skip that step blister once they are on the vehicle. On perforated window film, rear-screen heater lines and the wiper sweep are planned separately. So we talk about fleet size, vehicle geometry and expected years on the road before we talk about a machine.
01 — MACHINES
Machines that do this work
3 machines work in this sector. Each row below gives the bed or roll width it runs and the output it holds; go to the machine page for the detail and the quote.
- Maven MS-1600 PC Eco-Solvent Printers Print and cut on one machine, work that leaves the shop finished 1600 mm 100 m²/h @2
- Maven MS-1802 E4 Eco-Solvent Printers A shift's worth of banner, dry before it reaches the take-up 1800 mm 79 m²/h @4
- Maven MK-1612 Cutting Systems & Plotters Knife, crease and router in one head, from sheet to finished part in one stop 1600 × 1200 mm 40–55 m²/h @1
02 — INK
Inks used
You buy the machine once and the ink every month. These are the series used in this sector and the heads they run in. Every chemical product we sell ships with a Turkish safety data sheet.
- Maven MI-410 ECO Low-odour eco-solvent for machines running Epson i3200-E1, DX5, DX7 and XP600 heads Eco-Solvent Inks
- Maven MI-420 ECO-TR OEM-equivalent eco-solvent in TrueVIS TR2, SureColor and Mutoh cartridge formats Eco-Solvent Inks
- Maven MI-510 SOL True solvent for grand-format machines with Konica KM1024i and KM512i heads Solvent Inks
03 — MATERIAL
Materials printed
- Vinyl
- Mesh
- Banner
If a material on this list is new to you, ask for a sample print: adhesion and outdoor life depend on how the ink and the surface behave together, not on the ink alone. Request a Sample
04 — JOB LIST
What the machines on this page print.
- 01 Full wraps for commercial vehicles and fleets
- 02 Partial wraps, lettering and logo application
- 03 One-way vision perforated window film
- 04 Truck, trailer and curtain-side tarpaulin graphics
- 05 Magnetic panels and removable vehicle signs
- 06 Campaign wraps for public-transport vehicles
- 07 Motorhome, boat and plant-machinery graphics
05 — QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions
Can vehicle film be printed with UV ink?
Within limits. On flat panels and short-life campaign work, UV-printed film does the job. But on deeply curved surfaces and heat-formed applications the UV ink film cannot stretch as far as the vinyl, and it cracks over mouldings and in recesses. The right route for a permanent wrap is cast film, eco-solvent printing and lamination.
How long does a wrap last?
The reference we publish on the ink side is 24 months of unlaminated vertical exposure in a central European climate. The film maker's rating for cast vinyl is longer, but that figure is also for laminated, vertical surfaces. Life shortens markedly on horizontal panels such as bonnets and roofs, and annual UV dose on the southern Turkish coast runs above the central European reference.
Can I laminate straight after printing?
No. Eco-solvent and solvent prints need at least a day to outgas before lamination, longer where ink lay-down is heavy. Laminating early traps solvent under the film, and the problem shows up not in the shop but weeks later on the vehicle as blisters and lifting edges. Set aside a warm, ventilated area for conditioning.
Should contour cutting be done on the printer or on a separate cutter?
It depends on volume. A print-and-cut machine finishes short jobs in one file, but it cannot print while it cuts — above roughly 30–40 m² a day that becomes the bottleneck. A separate cutting table runs printing and cutting in parallel and copes better with thicker material such as magnetic sheet and reflective film; in exchange, registration marks have to be placed correctly in the print.
Put the fleet to work on the road.
Send your monthly square metres and your material, and we will send the right machine–ink pairing for this sector as an itemised quote.