This page sets out what we build for a fixed address in Čakovec: how the size of the picture is derived, how much text realistically fits on a given canvas when everything is said twice, what changes when the display faces the Mura valley weather rather than a heated interior, and how a wheeled poster puts a screen into a first-floor room with no building work at all. Production is at our Győr works. The road distance is 208 kilometres, which is the shortest journey of any Croatian city we serve regularly, and it appears on the quotation as a line of its own.
LED wall in Čakovec — manufacturing, installation, quote
Croatia · 208 km from our plant in Győr
Čakovec sits at the very top of the country and is closer to Nagykanizsa than to Zagreb. It is the seat of Međimurje, the northernmost county, and about 27,122 people live in it. The Goričan motorway crossing puts Hungarian registration plates in the car parks on almost any Saturday, and a fair share of the trade along Ulica kralja Tomislava and around Trg Republike is used to serving customers who read a second language more comfortably than Croatian. For a permanently installed screen that is not a marketing footnote, it is a design constraint. A picture that has to carry two languages needs either more surface, more running time or fewer words, and the moment to settle that is before anybody fixes the physical size.
How is the finished size actually arrived at?
Panels of 32 by 16 centimetres, with nothing in between
The building block is a panel 32 centimetres wide and 16 centimetres high, mounted in that orientation and no other. Everything follows from it. A picture 5.12 metres wide is sixteen panels; a picture 2.88 metres high is eighteen rows. There is no intermediate size, no bespoke edge panel and no diagonal measurement to select from a list. The order in which the decisions are taken matters more than most buyers expect. Start from what the content has to show, convert that into a pixel canvas, then check whether the resulting panel count fits the wall you have. Buyers who start from the wall and work inwards usually end up with a shape their material does not suit, and then spend the first year cropping everything they produce.
How much text fits when everything is said twice?
Two languages on one fixed pixel canvas
Take a common interior configuration: eight panels across by nine rows down, giving 2.56 by 1.44 metres. At P2.5 each panel carries 128 by 64 pixels, so the canvas is 1024 by 576 pixels, a genuine 16:9 surface. That is the number that decides how much you can say. On a canvas of that height, a headline set large enough to read from six metres occupies roughly a fifth of the picture. One headline in Croatian and the same headline in Hungarian therefore consume two fifths before any image appears. There are three honest ways out, and they should be chosen deliberately: put the two languages side by side and accept smaller type, alternate them in time and accept that half the viewers see the wrong one at any instant, or write content that carries a price and a picture and needs almost no words at all. In a border catchment the third option is usually the strongest, and it is the one nobody proposes.
What changes if the screen faces the weather?
IP65, and the operating brightness that goes with it
An exterior unit is sealed to IP65 and runs at 4,500 to 5,500 nits of operating brightness. That figure is not marketing headroom; it is what keeps a north-country frontage readable when a low winter sun sits directly in the sightline for two hours in the middle of the afternoon, which happens here in a way it does not further south. The interior build runs at 700 to 800 nits and is a different product, not a setting. The other local factor is the river fog that fills the plain on autumn mornings. Fog does not damage a sealed unit, but it does mean the automatic brightness control earns its cost: a display left at full output in fog scatters light back at the viewer and becomes harder to read, not easier.
Is there a version that needs no building work at all?
A 201 centimetre frame that goes where a fitted screen cannot
The wheeled LED poster is a complete display standing on its own base, and its whole frame is 201 centimetres tall. That number is the point of the product rather than a detail. It passes upright through ordinary door openings and fits into most passenger lift cars, so a screen can be put into a first-floor hotel function room, a bank branch above street level or a temporary exhibition foyer without a crane, a hoist or a single fixing into the fabric of the building. The controller is built into the frame and offers both Wi-Fi and a UTP network socket, together with an audio output, so a unit standing in the entrance of a Metss store or in the visitor route at the Muzej Međimurja can run material with sound from the same box. At 208 kilometres a poster is a delivery rather than a project: it arrives on a vehicle, your own staff stand it up, and there is no installation date to coordinate with anybody.
Where does the picture come from?
A live input, a scheduled list, or both at different hours
The controller takes an HDMI feed for anything live, which is what a presentation, a camera or a till system needs. Alongside that it stores a playlist which can be updated over the network, over Wi-Fi or from a USB stick, and each item can be given a time window so the display changes without anybody being present. In a bilingual setting the scheduling capability is worth more than it first appears. If your Hungarian-speaking trade arrives predominantly at weekends, the schedule can shift the balance of the two languages by day of week rather than showing both to everybody all the time. That is a decision about content, but it is only available if the controller was specified with it in mind.
What does support look like from 208 kilometres?
A same-day journey, and spares already on your shelf
The survey, the fitting and any later visit are all single-day journeys, with no overnight stay to invoice. That makes Čakovec one of the least expensive addresses in Croatia for us to serve, and the difference shows up in the travel row of the quotation rather than being averaged into the equipment. Every delivery includes spare modules, and the handover covers how to change one. The reasoning is straightforward: a fault that your own electrician can put right in an hour should not become a scheduling problem for two companies. Warranty runs for one or two years depending on the build, and travel and subsistence for any chargeable visit are itemised so you can see what they consist of.
