Vinyl Graphics & Wraps

Yes! Our company designs, prints and installs all of our commercial graphics. Our graphic designers are trained to build eye catching graphics that will make your business stand out in your market. You always get the last say on how your graphics will look! We only install after you are completely satisfied with the design.

A wrap is an adhesive backed vinyl film that is equip with a removable adhesive designed to conform to a variety of different surfaces including vehicles, walls and more! Our vinyl graphics can conform to any vehicle! This includes: cars, vans, trucks, trailers, buses, boats, golf carts and etc… The installed vinyl will not only make your vehicle look amazing but also won’t damage the paint beneath!

Vehicle advertising remains one of the most effective methods to spread brand awareness and reach new audiences.  According to the Transportation Advertising Council, a division of the (OAAA), vehicle wrap generates between 30,000-70,000 impressions every single day.  Unlike billboards, your only paying for this ad one time!

Every customer deserves peace of mind – 3M and Avery Dennison have trained and certified our production and installation departments, allowing us to offer full manufacturer warranties unrivaled in the wall graphics industry. Our partnership with these companies also allows us to continually hone our craft while increasing our efficiency in wall wraps.

There are several different grades available.  It is very important to specify the lifetime expectation of your requested wrap so we can help you maximize your product while respecting the overall cost of the project.  There are short term wraps available with up to 12 months before they have reached there lifetime, high performance wraps lasting from 3-5 plus years depending on your maintenance, and intermediate lines available in between these two.

Before we get into the longevity of the two wrap films we offer, its first important to understand the difference of the two films make up.  High performance films are made from a cast vinyl, while intermediate films are made from calendared vinyl.  A cast film is made by pouring the PVC based film into a rolling mold, enhanced with plasticizes to improve the films overall conform-ability.  This allows the natural state of the cooled plastic vinyl to be 100% at the start of the production process and final installation process.

The advantage promotes itself when you are trying to wrap something like a door, where the low spot in the door handle area requires the film to be moderately stretched into a low point for complete door coverage.  Without a cast base film, the vinyl would start to shrink naturally and pop up creating an air pocket, which eventually cracks, collects water/moisture and starts to fail in a complete section on the vehicle wrap.  Cast vinyl wraps typically last 3-5 years and can easily surpass 5 years with extra care and maintenance. 

Calendared films allow typically a 20-25% savings on the original cost of a high performance vehicle wrap, but these films are made like a pizza.  The calendared film is stretched to the size of the raw material roll we then print your graphics on and install your intermediate vehicle wrap with.  Not only is this film only rated for 1-2 years, but the failure rate in recessed channels or compound curves on your vehicle is much higher than a traditional high performance vehicle wrap.

Depending on the type of vehicle your looking to get wrapped, the cost does fluctuate to a degree along with the grade of the film you are looking to purchase.  To better explain this, lets look at a couple of different examples.  First we will look at a Ford Transit Connect, a smaller utility van in comparison to the full size transit.  Paired with a high performance wrap and a new design built from one of our creative designers, you would be looking at roughly $2,200.00 before tax without any roof coverage or bumper coverage. 

This would mean outside of the usually already black textured plastic bumpers (not wrap friendly) or the roof that most of your potential customers would never see anyway, everything else on the vehicle would be completely covered in your new vehicle wrap.  For DOT regulations and your own safety, we are not allowed to cover the front driver, passenger or windshield areas of the vehicle.  All other glass areas can be covered with an optional perforated window graphic film.  Larger vans with a wheelbase around 136’’ holding similar  coverage run closer to the $3,200-$4,500.00 range depending on the final size and coverage of that vehicle.

Our second example is calculated on a Ford Focus.  Believe it or not, not only will the painted bumpers require coverage to avoid clashing with your new design, but so will the door handles and most likely mirrors and even the roof, as these cars sit much lower to the ground allowing most standing civilians to be able to see the entire car.  This ends up adding time and material to the cost of this car wrap, bringing the average cost up to the $2,800.00-$3,400.00 range using a high performance film. 

There are alternative films with an intermediate grade performance guarantee for those looking to save money, but you start to sacrifice performance (conform-ability to compound curves like handles and bumpers) along with age expectancy, as these films typically last half of the lifetime of the high performance vehicle wrap films.

Vinyl Graphics and Wraps have proven to be one of the most cost effective ways to market and promote your business. Unlike traditional billboards that carry monthly reoccurring bills for you to rent their space, you get to own your own mobile billboard that you can totally control when and where its gathering impressions.  

Lets take a local plumber for example. In this case, we have a smaller operation with just one service truck that is new to the plumbing industry and service area. They are just getting started with building their business network through all of their friends and family in order to find new plumbing jobs. Now imagine in this situation, this plumber has a job at a location where hundreds of locals will pass by the jobsite each and every day, meanwhile this specific job will take about three days. That’s a lot of people.

If there is nothing on this blank white van, then how likely is this plumber going to find new leads while simultaneously working for their client?  If this plumber gets their business van wrapped with an eye-catching, colorful design, then while that van sits in their customers driveway, each day all those locals pass by, they are taking notice to this new plumbing company and their services. The new van wrap is promoting to these people who when you least expect it.

A bonus to gathering new leads while on the job is also the impressions you will collect while your van is at the local hardware store picking up supplies, or even as you fill up the gas tank at the local station. This cycle continuously helps local business owners promote and build market share within their companies.

As a larger commercial graphics company, we have formed long term promising relationships with brand leaders 3M and Avery.  This partnership has brought our trained and certified facility to offer 3M MCS and Avery ICS warranties giving fleet customers a 3 year guarantee on all vertically applied vehicle surfaces and a 1 year guarantee on all horizontally applied vehicle surfaces.  Some of our specialty products hold different specs.

At this point, almost everyone has seen or at least heard of a vehicle wrap to some degree or another.  Wraps are literally everywhere in today’s busy world of fat graphics and ultimate coverage applying wraps to all different types of vehicles including cars, trucks, trailers, buses and even walls.  When you head out to the store, look out for really colorful vehicles that send large format messages to their audiences through fat graphics that stand out from the plain Jane solid color cars passing by.  You will be surprised once you start looking for these wraps, how there is not one errand you’ll run without seeing a handful of vehicle wraps passing by.

Wall wraps are a great way to promote your organization and brighten up a room by adding striking designs or background imagery. The possibilities for designing wall wraps are endless and are bound to boost moral and spruce up the walls anywhere throughout the office. The wall wraps and graphics we build are great for offices, show rooms, exhibits, museums, and much more. We can install our products on both exterior and interior surfaces, giving you more choices for meeting your promotional goals. Advertising new products or services? Spreading awareness of your brand? Looking to make your office space more appealing? Whatever your objectives might be, Slicks Graphics can help.

We are a 3M Architecturally endorsed company dedicated to precision installations. Your never restricted to just your walls, our team of designers and installers can apply vinyl graphics on almost any surface. Moreover, we offer high definition photo-graphics, caption signage and more for museum-quality wraps. We’ve worked jobs big and small, from local firehouses to Princeton University.

We have a long lasting partnership with 3M and our network of certified 3M installers, providing us the ability us to serve our customers nationwide. We print all graphics in-house to control color/product consistency, then ship your graphics to partnering 3M certified installers near your location to handle the installation for you. That way you will always have a high-quality vinyl graphic from Slicks.