Printworks SkyLights
Ocean Outdoor · The Printworks, 27 Withy Grove, Manchester M4 2BS, UK
Printworks SkyLights is Europe's largest digital ceiling, three DeepScreen surfaces spanning the internal streets of Manchester's Printworks entertainment complex. Instead of facing an audience it hangs above them, wrapping ~1,008 m² of overhead LED across a footfall of diners, cinema-goers, and nightlife crowds.
Production spec
3 screensResolution
mixedOrientation
OnAudio
RequiredMask
- Audio
- The installation includes programmable sound and lighting synced to the ceiling content.
- Mask
- Irregular three-screen overhead canvas; official shape and mask files are required from Ocean rather than a single rectangular export.
- Safe area
- Non-rectangular ceiling spanning multiple courtyards; no single published safe area.
- Lead time
- Not published on the public page; contact Ocean Outdoor.
- Delivery
- [email protected]
Production notes
- The canvas is overhead, not upright, and split across three separate ceiling screens that follow the building's internal streets and courtyards, so it has no single rectangular frame or published pixel grid.
- Three separate ceiling screens make up the ~1,008 m² installation, running roughly 115 m end to end.
- Combined resolution exceeds 10.7 million pixels; Ocean does not publish per-screen pixel dimensions.
- The venue adds programmable sound and lighting synced to the ceiling, and supports DeepScreen 3D, Mixed Reality, Play and React formats.
- Overhead viewing angle means creative is read from below, not head-on, so orientation and legibility differ from a wall screen.
Location
The Printworks, 27 Withy Grove, Manchester M4 2BS, UKOpen in Google Maps
Make this screen yours.
Bring your existing creative and Babou will make it shine on this screen. Or build something new from the ground up. Either way, you’ll give the crowd something worth looking up for.
Spec sourced from the owner’s published material. View source · last checked 2026-07-02