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Jim Yanik

"J. Clarke" wrote in
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In article ,
says...

Robert Coe wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:22:24 +0000 (UTC), Dr Rig
wrote:
: I have a wall that I want to cover with roughly a 5 foot by 10
: foot "picture" frame of a google satellite view of the
: surrounding area.
:
: Any idea how to accomplish the various technical parts?
: - For the 'frame', I'm thinking of making it out of pine
: - For the 'glass', I'm wondering how big a sheet of thin plastic
: I can buy - For the 'printing', I'm not sure, but maybe Kinkos
: can print it?

You can print it yourself if you have access to a decent inkjet
plotter. We have one at work that takes four-foot rolls of paper,
and they make them for rolls even wider than that. The downside is
that such large pictures are very unwieldy. Framing and hanging are
the hard part unless, as someone suggested, you glue it up like
wallpaper.

Bob
Ever seen a wet inkjet print?
I would not advise to use it as walpaper.
That would turn into a diaster.
There is hoever doublesided tape, in quite wide
rolls, that might do it.

I'd use a spray adhesive like the 3M stuff available all over the place.
it would take several cans to do a wall.

Uh, wide carriage inkjets are used to produce vehicle wraps, which
have no problem getting wet.

Tekronix made an engineering-size printer that could make large prints(like
blueprints),Xerox bought that division,and still makes them,IIRC.
It uses thermal wax "ink",makes really nice color prints.
There are several engineering printers that can make "wallpaper" you could
use for your wall photo.

You could also try a place that does billboards.

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