dry mounting prints

[raven_garrison]

When briefly working in a framing store, their policy was that you never mount an original photograph. You "hinge" it with archival linen tape to the board. I was wondering what you're opinion was.

[raven_garrison]

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[jnorman1]

absolutely use linen tape to mount your photos - every art museum i

have dealt with has requested this, and it is the standard method of

archivally mounting all types of paper-based art work.

[dan_smith]

I do custom framing and this is the norm for better framing shops.

The downside is the damnable wavy prints with humidity and

temperature changes-the prints look like worse than buffalo chips at

the wrong time of the year. With large prints, unless you frame with

a lot of space between the image and the glazing the print can end up

touching it.

I dry mount most of mine unless there is a specific request, backed

up with dollars, not to.

A nice, clean and flat print looks a lot better than the wavy seasick

look.

[doremus_scudder1]

I hate the look of hinged prints. Not only wavy, it is also

impossible to get a clean looking border. I dry mount everything. I

prefer the clean look of a flat, trimmed print with some space

between it and the window mat. As far as I'm concerned, the mat board

is part of the art work. If it only lasts a century or so, that's

fine with me (I do process for permanence, mount on cotton board and

use buffered "archival" mounting tissue). However, I make prints for

display, not public record or historical reasons. I think you have

tol decide how you like to present you prints. If you are drawing on

them, making collages, using multi-media or coloring them the

archival question is moot anyway. Well processed monochrome prints

that have been dry-mounted have lasted for centuries already. No

reason why that won't continue to be true. Regards, ;^D)

[john10]

As an extension to this question, is there any reasdon to treat

archivally printed digital prints in a different way to conventional

wet printed prints.

[jacque_staskon]

Personally, I like the look of hinged prints, I have a dry mount

press, and I use it for flattening prints.

When its time to show my work, I feel the hinged method works best for

me. Besides, I could always count on screwing up the print when I

tryed to dry mount it.

I am not so sure that dry mounted prints have been around for

centuries. Seems that photography didn't get its start until the mid

1800's.

I also don't trust the claims of some dry mount material that it is

archival.

The prints I make are archivally processed, so why take the chance

with a dry mount system. I also live in Arizona, so I have not

experienced the problems assosiated with more humid climates.

[doug1]

If you're really trying to be archival hinged cloth tape is the way to

go. I usually make a tape "T". also use distilled water to wet the

tape rather than your tounge or tap water. The big advatage to doing

it this way is that if a restorer needs to do some thing to your print

in the future it's easy to work with. If you are worried about

flatness, a good way to work is by always using the next size up in

paper ie if you are going to make an 11x14 print print on 16x20. this

helps since the majority of paper wrinkling from humidity takes place

at the edges it is hidden far under your matboard.

 

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doug