Print your lettering full size and color on plain paper using your regular office printer. Have the sheets laminated at the local copy shop/printer, usually while you wait. If you have a dry-mount press and laminating film (or a laminator), well, so much the better. Cut said laminated letters out and adhear them to the wall with your choice of removable adhesive, we use 3M #568 double-sided adhesive film, which if done correctly produces "peel and stick" letters that you arrange as desired.
This works very well for the title sign and main headers, but not so well for the body of the text (unless you print on a clear material so you don't have to cut out every single letter).
Hello,
The following message was forwarded to me by David Lynx:
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Putting text directly on wall
We would like to put text for our upcoming exhibit directly on the wall.
What is
the best way to do that? Do most people use silk screen or low tac adhesive?
Help me!
The easiest and probably cheapest way to put text directly on your wall is to use "Vinyl Letters".
They are very common.
These are produced by most sign shops, on computer with a special vinyl-cutting printer. You can usually just bring them a disk and they can turn your "document" into adhesive vinyl letters. There are different types of vinyl letter machines (a big company is Gerber), and they are all a bit different, and some sign shops have old machines, so you will want to check with the sign shop first about available fonts and whether they can print from your disk (if not, they can always re-type the text according to your specs). You will need to let them know what size you want the finished product to be; I'm sure they will ask you.
And they will advise you on how to apply the vinyl letters to the wall. It's very simple ... once you've done it once or twice (be sure to pre-mark the wall with a pencil and level ... once they are on the wall, there's no taking them off without ruining them). Usually, your entire block of text comes as a single "transfer sheet" that you lightly stick to the wall with the "transfer tape" (part of the transfer sheet); you press and burnish the sheet onto the wall and peel back the transfer tape, leaving only the vinyl letters on the wall letters. (It's similar, in a way, to those old "letraset" transfer letters that were common before 1995 or so.
Just call your local sign shop and ask about vinyl letters.
I hope this helps.
-Andy G.
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Andrew Granitto, Curator of Exhibits/Graphic Designer at Yakima Valley Museum
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