Unleash Your Imagination
by Randy Anderson, Product Marketing Manager
Mutoh America
“Wrapping” the INSIDE of your car.
There has been so much talk and focus on custom car wraps for the outside of the car, but very little about customizing the interior of the car.
Ok, there has been a little wrapping of individual parts inside the car, and now some ‘hydrographics’, but what seems to be mostly missing are the textile applications for the cars’ interior.
Vehicle Headliners?
One that intrigued me recently is headliners for vehicles.
It started with something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbMVH8mFjRc that I found on youtube.
When I got to Pinterest it gave me more of an idea of just how common this might be and how it could be a solution for damaged or loose headliners.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/308567011940623906/
The sad part of this is that I don’t recall ever seeing custom headliners for custom wrapped cars when I had mine wrapped.
It would have been nice to put in a custom themed headliner and visors in my Rodeo.
Seems like dye sublimation would be a perfect application for both of those, and the range of fabrics available would make it pretty easy to keep the same texture look and feel with custom imagery.
Dye sublimation would work to do the door panels and maybe some matching mats – http://dyetrans.com/products.php?webmaincat=sub_prods&websubcat=car_mats
I got rid of the Rodeo a couple of years ago before Mutoh released the direct to a textile printer the ValueJet 1938TX.
I am driving a Juke now, with a sunroof, so there isn’t much of a headliner there, but it sure would be nice to wrap the Juke and create custom seat covers with the TX with visors to match….
But that would be another blog entry for the future……
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