UNITED OIL TANKER FLEET FEATURED ON DIGITAL OUTPUT MAGAZINE
By Olivia Cahoon
https://www.digitaloutput.net/graphics-on-wheels/
Rolling Tankers
Established in 2015, Wrap Legends focuses on bringing innovation and resourcefulness to vinyl graphics. With five employees in a 2,500 square foot work area in Anaheim Hills, CA, the PSP specializes in premium vehicle vinyl wraps, graphics, paint protection films, and offers other services like window tinting, signage, and decals. It mainly serves the Southern CA area. 50 percent of the firm’s work is vehicle wraps and of that, 50 percent is fleet wraps.
Wrap Legends uses media from Avery Dennison, specifically MPI 1005 and Supreme Wrapping Film SW900, a wrapping film in an assortment of colors. The shop also uses 3M Controltac Graphic Film IJ180, 3M Envision Print Wrap Film LX480Cv3, and 3M Wrap Film Series 1080.
For printing, an HP Latex 360 is used. “After conducting major research, the latex printer was found to be the most efficient and productive,” shares William Brice, owner/founder, Wrap Legends. It creates indoor and outdoor prints on varying substrates, including textiles.
While the PSP is new to the industry, it’s noticed a rise in demand for vehicle wraps.
For three months, Wrap Legends worked with United Pacific, formerly United Oil, to create iconic gasoline tankers to promote employee morale. It wrapped 24 United Pacific trucks, 400 square feet each, with each truck taking ten hours to wrap.
The entire project used die cut graphics, with the help of SA International’s FlexiSIGN vinyl cutting software, a Roland CAMM-1 GX-640 vinyl cutter, and a Graphtec America, Inc. FC8600-160 cutting plotter. Avery Dennison Supreme Wrapping Film SW900 was used because it matched United Pacific’s brand colors the closest.
Brice shares that the installation process was not an easy task. “Not only was this our first big fleet job but we also had zero experience with tankers. We wasted a lot of material in the beginning but then figured it out,” he comments.
Wrap Legends also faced challenges with the trucks’ oil tanks being large and round. “We laid the red vinyl all in one place. Text was cut out of Avery Dennison chrome and was 15 feet long. A metallic grey roll was cut in ten-inch increments for the stripes at the bottom,” shares Brice.
Despite the challenges, he says there are no regrets. “This was a big job for us. It took us to the next level and taught us a lot.” United Pacific was 100 percent satisfied with the fleet job.