Question How to save art for vehicle wraps?

[858Graphics]

Hello everyone!

I was wondering how do you guys do the paneling for vehicle wraps and if you know any tutorials or workshops.

Thank you

 

[HDvinyl]

I do mine in Versaworks.

 

[jfiscus]

I let the RIP do the tiling unless it is a pickup truck (bedsides) or the customer requests a seamless wrap.
Flattened CMYK TIFF files are what RIPs like best for prints.

 

[AKwrapguy]

I use Flexi and the rip will do it automatically. Yo can even tell it how much of an overlap you want and it will flip every other panel with the simple click of a box.

 

[jfiscus]

Always, always use the flip every other panel option.

 

[WB]

Hello everyone!

I was wondering how do you guys do the paneling for vehicle wraps and if you know any tutorials or workshops.

Thank you

If your the designer the you don't worry about the "paneling" if your sending your artwork to a shop that doesn't know how to tile your artwork then I would find another shop.

I realize that everyone has to start somewhere but start small and move up. I proper shop with the correct staff will know how to use the RIP software to tile the wrap correctly. If you are trying to do it directly from the design stage your leaving alot of space for error.

 

[Christian @ 2CT Media]

We always hand panel ours, it leaves less room for error and allows us to set up the wrap for a faster install vs maximum material yield. I don't know about other shops but labor is the most expensive thing in my shop so eliminating labor time is more of a priority than materials at this point in my business life cycle.

 

[Modern Ink Signs]

Most of the time we break our "manually" in Illustrator. This allows us better yield, better layout, less seams. Otherwise when doing a wall paper type breakup, we do it in our RIP software.

 

[myront]

We do all our panels beside or under the final design in Corel. We try to stick to seemless if at all possible.

 

[papabud]

we save things normally as an eps or as a tiff depending on what it is.
we use onyx and let that set our tiling, can manually adjust it in onyx as needed.