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Van lettering, printed decals and magnetic vehicle signs, produced in London — the removable side of vehicle branding. Cut lettering supplied weeded and application-taped so the layout goes on in one piece, printed decals contour cut to your logo, and 0.85 mm magnetic panels that lift off for the weekend and move between vehicles. Next day, scheduled alongside the same-day work — and lettering can be applied here while you wait. We do not do wraps, which is exactly why this is fast.
Every job is quoted on its specification. Send the logo and the vehicle and we will come back with a firm figure.
There are two ways to brand a van. One covers the vehicle in printed film for years and takes it off the road for days to do it. The other puts your name, number and trade on the panels that people actually read, in an hour, and comes off cleanly when the lease ends. We do the second one only — cut lettering, printed decals and magnetic panels — and being clear about that is what lets us turn the work round in a day instead of a fortnight.
It suits more businesses than the wrap industry admits. Sole traders whose work van is also the family car at weekends; subcontractors working under a different name each month; leased and hired fleets that must go back unmarked; and anyone who has watched a wrapped van get resprayed at handover. Magnetic panels move between vehicles, so a two-van firm that becomes a three-van firm does not start again.
Typical work: trade vans — name, phone number, trade and accreditation logos on doors and rear panels; fleet identification — unit numbers and logos across a set of vehicles, printed as one job so they match; weekend-off branding — magnetic door panels on and off in seconds; and rear window lettering, the piece of a van that every driver behind you reads at every set of lights.
| Format | What it is | Removal | Right when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cut vinyl lettering | Letters and logos plotter-cut from film, no background — cast rated 5–7 years, monomeric 1–3 | Peels off with heat; paint-safe adhesive | The van is yours and the branding stays put — the cleanest, sharpest look |
| Printed decals | Full-colour logos and panels printed and contour cut, laminated against jet washes | Peels off with heat, same as lettering | The logo has gradients, photos or more colours than cutting allows |
| Magnetic panels | Printed and laminated graphic on 0.85 mm vehicle magnet, rounded corners | Lifts off in seconds, reusable | Weekends off, leased vehicles, or branding that moves between vans |
A magnetic sign is a printed and laminated graphic bonded to 0.85 mm vehicle-grade magnetic sheet — full thickness, not the thin stock a fridge magnet is made of — and finished with rounded corners. That corner radius is not styling: at speed, air looks for an edge to get under, and a square corner is the invitation. Panels are cut to your door, so tell us the flat area you have and keep the design inside it, away from swage lines and door handles.
The honest limits matter more than the sales pitch. Magnets grip flat steel only. Aluminium doors and bonnets — increasingly common — plus plastic bumpers, fibreglass panels and filler repairs hold nothing at all; test the exact panel with any household magnet before ordering. Curved or heavily ribbed panels reduce contact and therefore grip. And grit is the real enemy: dust trapped underneath both scratches the paint and lifts the panel, which is why the rule is take them off weekly, clean both faces, store them flat rather than rolled. Before a long motorway run, check the corners the way you check the tyres.
Used that way, magnets do something no permanent graphic can: the van is a branded work vehicle on Friday and an unmarked family car on Saturday, and the same panels move to the next vehicle when the fleet changes.
Cut lettering is the sharpest-looking option and the cheapest to produce: your text and logo are plotter-cut from film with no background, so the letters sit directly on the paintwork. Every kit is weeded — all the waste film picked away by hand — and application-taped, so the layout arrives as one piece with the spacing already fixed. Printed decals take over where cutting cannot: gradients, photographs and multi-colour logos are printed, laminated against jet washes and contour cut to shape.
Film choice follows the same facts as our window and wall graphics: cast film is rated 5–7 years outdoors, monomeric 1–3. A van earns the cast film — it lives through jet washes, road salt and sun on one flank only.
Fitting is your choice. Self-application is genuinely straightforward with a taped kit: wash the panel, wipe it with alcohol, position, squeegee from the centre out, peel the tape back at a shallow angle. Or bring the van to our production hub and we will apply the lettering while you wait — say so when you order so the slot is booked. Removal, whenever it comes: warm the film with a hairdryer and peel; sound factory paint is unharmed, though paint that is already lifting or resprayed can be a different story.
| Requirement | What we need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Vector artwork | AI, EPS or PDF with live paths for anything cut | The plotter follows a path, not a picture. A JPEG logo has to be redrawn before a single letter can be cut. |
| Panel measurements | The flat area on the door, measured — not the door size | Swage lines, handles and mouldings shrink the usable rectangle; magnets and decals have to live inside it. |
| Minimum text size | Around 15 mm cap height for cut letters | Smaller characters have too little adhesive area and lift at the edges under a pressure washer. |
| Colour | Pantone references for brand colours; CMYK for printed work | Cut vinyl comes in stock colours matched to a reference — a screenshot is not one. |
| Bleed | 3 mm on printed decals and magnetic panels | Both are trimmed after printing; bleed is what keeps the edge clean. |
| Phone numbers | Big, spaced, high contrast | The audience is reading at 30 mph. A number that needs squinting at is a number nobody dials. |
No, and that is deliberate. We produce the removable side of vehicle branding: cut lettering, printed decals and magnetic panels. A wrap takes the vehicle off the road for days and cannot be undone in an afternoon; lettering and magnets brand the same van in an hour and come off cleanly when the lease ends.
Next day is the normal answer. Vehicle work is scheduled alongside the same-day production rather than inside it - cutting, weeding and taping a lettering set is careful handwork, and magnetic panels are printed, laminated and trimmed. Call with your deadline and you get a straight answer on the earliest date, at any hour.
On flat steel, cleaned before fitting, yes - the panels are full 0.85 mm vehicle magnet with rounded corners, which is what stops airflow getting under an edge. What defeats them is not speed but geometry and grime: a curved or ribbed panel, a gritty surface, or a corner already lifting. Check them before a long run, the way you check tyres.
Only to flat steel. Aluminium doors and bonnets - common on newer vans and cars - plastic bumpers, fibreglass panels and areas rebuilt with filler hold nothing at all. Test the exact panel with any household magnet before ordering; if it does not grip, cut lettering or a printed decal is the answer for that vehicle.
Not on sound factory paint. The films are paint-safe with acrylic adhesives: warm the letters with a hairdryer or heat gun to soften the glue and they peel away cleanly, with any residue coming off with adhesive remover. The caveat is honest - paint that is already lifting, resprayed or badly weathered can come away with the vinyl.
Yes. Kits arrive weeded and application-taped, so the whole layout goes on as one piece rather than letter by letter - wash the panel, wipe it with alcohol, position, squeegee, peel the tape away. If you would rather not, lettering can be applied here at our production hub while you wait; ask when you order.
Cast film is rated 5 to 7 years outdoors and monomeric 1 to 3, and a van lives a harder life than a shop window - jet washes, road salt and sun on one side only. Magnetic panels last as long as they are looked after: take them off weekly, clean both faces, and store them flat rather than rolled.
Vector logo, the flat panel measurements, how many vehicles, and whether you want magnets or lettering — that is the whole specification. We come back with a firm price and a date, and book you in if you want it fitted here.
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