Manchester based printer The Image Group has just installed the biggest vinyl print in its history at Europe 's longest and widest real snow indoor ski slopes.

Everything about the job – putting up a real Alpine setting indoors to bewitch snow seekers - was done on a super-scale.

A cool print job

"We knew it was never going to be a straight forward installation.  We couldn't drill into the walls because the finished environment needs to be temperature controlled. And we couldn't use scaffolding because of the weight, cost and time.
 
"Our solution was to draft in special cherry pickers and train our team to use them.  This worked well for the first six weeks of the installation. But once a tin floor was laid, containing glycol pipes to create the alpine temperatures, the cherry pickers were too heavy to use.
 
"That's when we called in the crack abseiling team using can-span machinery to control ascent and descent.  There was no room for error.  We needed to line up each image perfectly on the overlap or the effect would have been ruined. We often relayed two or three times to ensure a perfect match."

The monster job in now complete and can be seen at The Chill Factor E, just off the M60 beside The Trafford Centre (trust us you can’t miss it), when it opens its doors in November.

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