Recreational vehicle component with image and method of manufacturing

A method of forming a panel for a recreational vehicle, the panel for forming a sidewall, an interior wall, a floor, or a ceiling of the recreational vehicle and having an outer side, said method comprising the steps of:

• forming a lamination from a plurality of the layers to form the panel, said forming including forming a fixed reference at on or in the panel, and said forming further including forming a first side and a second side and forming the first side with a printable layer;
• configuring the lamination for use as the sidewall, interior wall, floor, or ceiling of the recreational vehicle;
• printing a two-dimensional decorative image across an area on the printable layer, with the area for forming the entire outer surface of the printable layer of the sidewall, interior wall, floor, or ceiling of the recreational vehicle, the two-dimensional decorative image being formed from a plurality of pixels, said printing including using an electronic image file to locate the pixels of the two-dimensional decorative image at a known location in fixed registry with the fixed reference wherein each pixel forming the two-dimensional decorative image is in a known location relative to the structural reference on the panel and in a precise known location on the panel;
• forming an opening in the lamination, wherein the two-dimensional decorative image surrounds the opening wherein a portion of the two-dimensional decorative image is omitted by the forming of the opening leaving a remaining portion of the two-dimensional image on the printable layer;
• determining the location of the opening in the image file to determine the omitted portion of the image;
• and
• forming a panel for mounting in the opening, and wherein said forming the panel includes printing the omitted portion of the two-dimensional decorative image on the panel by referencing the image file wherein when the panel is mounted in the opening, the omitted portion of the image precisely matches the remaining portion of the two dimensional decorative image to form the entirety of the two-dimensional decorative image.

A method of forming a panel for a recreational vehicle, the panel for forming a sidewall, an interior wall, a floor, or a ceiling of the recreational vehicle and having an outer side, said method comprising the steps of:

• forming a lamination from a plurality of the layers to form the panel, and said forming further including forming a first side and a second side and forming the first side with a printable layer;
• configuring the lamination for use as the sidewall, interior wall, floor, or ceiling of the recreational vehicle;
• said forming a lamination further includes mounting a structural frame to the lamination;
• locating an edge of the structural frame;
• using the edge of the panel as a fixed reference on the panel;
• and
• printing a two-dimensional image on the printable layer, and said printing including using an electronic image file to locate the pixels of the two-dimensional image at a known location in fixed registry with the fixed reference wherein each pixel forming the two-dimensional image is in a known location relative to the fixed reference on the panel and in a precise known location on the panel and relative to the structural frame.