Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:12 PM 10/1/00 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >Hinging is where it is at now! >Dry mounting is not done like it once was. >It's even frowned on as not being archival. >But gallery owners still get dry mounted prints from established older timers >who don't feel a need to change and don't really have to. >Dry mounting is reversible but not 100 percent always. >And high heat is never good (but especially when the print is still wet) >Once the paper behind glass it's no longer an issue. >But in a stack their's the feel of the paper to think about. >In a book with plastic pages: that works well with inkjets as well as RC's. >My heavyweight Epson matte paper feels great in a stack.(Of 8.5x11's) >Not quite as good as a stack of double weight Ilford Multigrade fiber 11x14's or 8x10's. >mark rabiner > I guess my age is showing. I have a Seal 2500 press that will dry mount a full 20x24 in one swell foop. And even though hinging is "the in thing" I hate looking at those wrinkled prints under the glass and matt. I have Calypso cold mount my Cibachromes and LightJets, but my and my daughters B&W get the old fashioned clamp and heat treatment. On archival matt board with archival dry mount tissue of course. :-) Jim