You Own Your Art & Wrap Design Files. Day One. Forever.

Here's a scenario that happens in this industry more than you'd think.

You find a wrap shop. They design something great for your van. Logo, colors, layout, the whole thing. You approve it. They install it. Looks sharp. You're happy.

Six months later you need a second van wrapped. You call them. They're booked out three weeks and they can't fit you in tomorrow. Or maybe the price went up. Or the communication got slow. Whatever it is. You decide to shop around.

Then you find out: they own the art. You paid for the design, but the files belong to the shop. Take your business elsewhere and you're starting from scratch. New designer, new fee, new timeline. Just to recreate something you already paid for.

Why most shops hold the files

It's use. If leaving costs you a redesign, most people won't leave. It's a retention strategy built on friction, not quality. We've heard it from clients who came to us after. Some had been paying above-market rates for years because they felt stuck.

We'd rather keep clients because the work is good. Not because leaving is painful.

We do this because we trust us better than anybody else.

What you actually get

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Production-ready source files

Full-res, print-scaled to your exact vehicle. Not a JPEG. The actual working files.

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Delivered day one, kept forever

Files hit your inbox on install day. Need them again in four years? Email us. We keep them on file.

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Fleet growth costs less

Your template is built. Adding a van? No redesign fee. Resize, adjust, print. Every additional vehicle is faster and cheaper.

How your file package is built

Owning the art only matters if the art is usable. A flattened proof of a van is a picture of a wrap, not a wrap you can print. What transfers to you is the production set, built the way a printer reads it.

It starts on a measured template

Every design is drawn on a template for the exact year, make, model and body configuration of your vehicle. A Transit cargo van and a Transit high roof are not the same canvas. Door seams, handles, the fuel door, mirror mounts, body side molding and the roof radius sit in the file as their own guides, so a phone number never lands where a handle cuts through it or a body line swallows it. Those guides stay in the file you keep.

The art is laid out in print panels

Our widest print is 59 inches, so a box truck side or a high roof panel gets split before it is printed. Those splits live in the file: panel order, which graphic carries across a break, and where the overlap falls at the seam. That is the part most shops never hand over, and it is the part that makes a single panel reprint line up with the panels already on the truck years later.

Logos get rebuilt, not stretched

Most businesses hand us a logo pulled off their own website. At wrap scale that image falls apart. Our two in-house designers redraw it as vector so the edges hold at eight feet wide, and the redrawn mark is what ships in your package, not the small file you sent. If redrawing art is all you need from us, we do that as its own job.

The build notes travel with the art

The package records what the file was built to print on: cast vinyl, Avery Dennison MPI 1105 or 3M IJ180-CV3, with overlaminate over the print. We print in-house on HP Latex and laminate before anything reaches a bay, so the file and the finished panel are never two different ideas. Hand the set to another shop and they can see the material the layout assumes instead of guessing at it.

What the files are worth once the fleet grows

The hard part of a fleet wrap is the first vehicle. Everything after it is a layout move, not a new idea, and that only holds if somebody still has the layout.

Van two is a re-cut, not a redesign

Your type hierarchy, logo placement, color calls and what goes on the rear doors are already settled. Moving that onto a Sprinter 144 after a Transit means re-cutting panels to the new template and re-fitting a few elements around different door positions. Nobody reopens the decisions you already made, and nobody has to rediscover your brand from scratch.

Mixed fleets get surveyed first

For larger or mixed fleets we can survey the vehicles at your yard, verify models and body configurations, photograph the existing units and document the variations before anything goes to print. Two vans bought two years apart can carry different mirrors or a different rear door. That survey is what the templates are built from, and the templates are part of what you end up owning.

Damage is a reprint, not a rebuild

A van backs into a dock plate and loses the lower rear quarter. With the panel file in hand that is one panel reprinted and replaced in a bay. Without it, somebody is rebuilding the artwork from phone photos and trying to match color to a print that has been through four Chicago winters. Salt season is hard enough on a wrap without adding guesswork to the repair.