Projection Mapping Equipment Rental for Projectors, Domes and Systems

The right projector for one show is the wrong one for the next. A dome that fits a festival would sit idle in a warehouse for most of the year. For a lot of productions, renting is the honest answer, as long as what arrives on site actually works together.

We help producers, agencies and venues rent what a projection show needs and make it perform on the night. If you are pricing a show, tell us the dates and the space.

Projection mapping equipment rental is not just a delivery. A mapped show only holds if every projector matches its neighbor, so the rental has to be planned as a set, not a pile of boxes. If rentals fit your project, our team can coordinate matched sets and support them on site.

Domes and trade-show systems we rent out directly:

• Projection domes. Lumen and Forge provide rental and purchase options for projection domes, with geodesic and inflatable domes ranging in diameter from 5ft to 300ft. See dome projection for formats.
• Turnkey trade-show systems. Our Turnkey Rental tier lets you rent the whole system: we deliver, install, support and strike, with pre-configured hardware shipped to the show. Our turnkey rentals run for the show week without intervention. More on trade show technologies.

The defining risk in rented projectors is mismatch. A mixed batch of rented units can show up with uneven running hours, color drift and lens differences, and every one of those adds time to calibration. On a blended canvas, that shows up as a seam.

The fix is in the order. A rental can still come as a matched set if you order early, name the exact model family and refuse substitutions. For a show that cannot fail, ask for low-hour units or a batch with matching hours. Our auto-calibration and maintenance page covers keeping alignment once the show is running.

There is no single right answer on renting or buying. It comes down to how often you run shows, how different your venues are and what the audience should see.

When renting fits. If your calendar has a handful of huge shows a year, renting puts 30K-50K-lumen projectors and the right lenses in your hands without money sitting in a warehouse between them. When every venue is different, renting lets you change lenses and brightness per site instead of owning every combination.

What renting really costs. The day rate is not the whole bill. Delivery and returns, dock time slots, rush charges, lifts and rigging help, extra cabling and power distribution, and technicians on site all add up.

Who carries the risk. A good rental package also moves some of the risk off your plate: when a unit fails, quick swaps, nearby stock and a promised replacement time make it the vendor's problem to solve.

The hybrid route. Own the core, rent the peak. For a new format, rent while you test, settle on the spec that works, and only think about buying once the same setup keeps coming back.

For systems that stay in place, see permanent projection installations. One-night builds are covered by temporary and event projection, tours by mobile and touring projection, and the visuals themselves by projection content creation.

No published project of ours is a rental-only job. These are events where we supplied the dome structure along with the show.

• Capital One Venture Dome, Denver. We designed and implemented a 44ft geodesic dome, exhibited at four locations in Denver.
• Resorts World rooftop domes, Las Vegas. We installed six 13-foot geodesic domes on the Rose Rooftop.
• Big Sur private dome event, California. Zephyr Tents and Pacific Domes hired us for dome and projection services, and we set up three 30ft geodesic domes.

See all our projects.

Send us the dates, the venue or surface, the image size you need and whether you want us on site. We will come back with a matched equipment list and the support plan around it. To see everything we do, visit our projection mapping services page, or talk to our team.