Featured Project: Mural, Mural on the Wall

This featured project was done in Louisville, Kentucky, home of the KFC YUM! Center, a multi-use sports and entertainment venue that seats more than 23,000.

Representatives from the center contacted S.K. Sign & Banner of Clarksville, Indiana, with a daunting assignment: to print and install a 21′ wall graphic inside the facility in just three days.

Mactac, a Stow, Ohio-based manufacturer of pressure sensitive films, is a regular vendor for films that S.K. Sign uses. The company uses Mactac’s IMAGin ROODLE (RO628) printable media all the time, and knew it would be a good fit for this graphic, which would be a print of Louisville’s historic Fall City Brewery building and a graphic designed to look like an old brick wall.

S.K. Sign consulted with its partner, Nashville, Tennessee’s Athens Paper, which gave the go-ahead on using ROODLE, a 6.0-mil matte white, semi-rigid calendared PVC film.

S.K. Sign & Banner began printing on a Wednesday, using an HP Latex 560 printer. The graphic included 11 17′ panels, each 50″ wide. Panels were printed to the edge of the material with a 1-inch overlap. On Thursday, they were installed onto the smooth interior wall, with the lowest panels being applied 4-feet above the ground. By Friday, the project was complete.

“With ROODLE, our installers didn’t even have to tape up the product-it was super easy to install. As long as you rip the file correctly, the rest is easy,” says Stefan Kopf of S.K. Sign & Banner. “We love Mactac products and so does Athens Paper-Mactac is our go-to. Once you find a product that works, why change? ROODLE was made for this type of application.”