How Important Is Overlaminate For Vehicle Wraps?

by Frontend Solutions Screen Printing

Have you planned for newly wrapping your vehicle? Then overlaminating should not be ignored. Your vehicle needs overlaminating, both the first time as well as for re-wraps. Overlaminating helps in improving the vehicle wrap' quality and lifespan.

So, now to put the need for overlaminating for the vehicle wraps into perspective, know that every wrap installed is done with an overlaminate. Let us find out what is overlaminate and what is its importance for vehicle wraps. Specifically, it is the very reason why the vehicle wraps installers in Grand Prairie also install an overlaminate with the vinyl wrap.

What Is Meant By An Overlaminate?

An overlaminate means the layer of flexible material applied to the new vehicle wrap at the time of the production process. After it has been applied, the overlaminate is applied that becomes the part of the vehicle wrap. By all possibilities, this protective layer is almost invisible but provides additional visual effects to the finished look of the wrap.

How Do Overlaminates Improve the Wrap Quality and Lifespan?

Whether the vehicles are meant for keeping in the garage for show or the fleet managers use them as work vehicles, overlaminating for the vehicle wraps proves to be ultimate protection. Work vehicles are prone to becoming dirty, hitting bugs and are not always kept inside the garages. In this regard, overlaminating is compulsory for protecting the new wraps and to ensure their longitude.

We shall now see how do the overlaminates add life and quality to the vehicle wraps –

a. Protection Against Scratches

Road salts, bugs, pebbles and related road debris cause the vehicle wraps to be damaged. The protective overlaminate layer withstands these instances. Since the printed colours of the wrap are not held in the layer, so the scratch will not be seen on the wrap.

b. Filtering Out the UV Rays

When a vehicle wrap has been exposed to the UV rays of the sun for prolonged hours, then colour starts fading. Herein, the overlaminate acts as a saviour by filtering out the UV rays for preventing the colour fade.

c. Moisture Resistance Is Added

The vehicle wrap is fully sealed off from moisture when the overlaminate is applied following the technical way. Similar to UV protection, the moisture resistance retains a better look for the vehicle wrap for some time longer.

d. A Shield Against The Fuel Vapors

Almost similar to blocking out moisture, fuel vapour is another harmful vapour meant to be kept out. Your vehicle wrap needs overlamination for shielding the wrap against the huge amount of fuel vapour.

e. Cleaning Becomes Easier

In fleet management, vehicle cleanliness occupies a great position. With a wrap overlaminate, cleaning the vehicles becomes much easier. Hence, the wrap sits on safely and for a long.

f. Installation Quality is Rendered Better

Through overlamination, the finished wrap appears much thicker. Due to this added thickness, the installation becomes easier since the wrap flops around less. Even it helps at preventing the tears at the time of stretching the wrap over the curved surfaces.

What do you think as we come to the end of the discussion? Overlaminating the vehicle wraps indeed bears fruits. The end story is that the vehicle wraps remain better sealed and bright when the overlaminate is applied. So, keep in mind, whenever you are going for a vehicle wrap, you will also have to include the overlaminate.