Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I, my daughter, and my daughter-in-law, use my Logan Model 750 Simplex Plus matt cutter. It is a dream to use, simple to set-up, and makes cutting single, double, and triple matts a very simple and effortless task. And, I've watched my daughter cut matts for 12x24" frames where she puts two or three photographs in the space. One matt, multiple openings cut, and she does it in what seems like seconds. Years ago, I, and my colleagues, used that little free-hand Dexter cutter but found it to be quite error prone. What I mean is - it was always user error, but the Logan 750 has basically eliminated all wasted matt board. No more bad cuts. Everything I have done, starting in 1969, had been, and is, dry mounted. B&W and type C on mount board, cooled and flattened under a steel plate weight, single, double, or triple matted and framed under glass. Anything not going to be framed under glass, and ALL Cibachrome, is dry mounted on 1/2" foam board. A v-e-r-y thin black frame is put around it more to protect the foam core edges than any other reason. The reason all Cibachrome prints are mounted on Foam board (or Gatorfoam) is that the Foam board mounting surface is dead smooth. Since the Ciba that I print on has a super gloss surface, it shows every nuance of the mount board surface when dry mounted. So the super smooth Foam board is ideal. http://tinyurl.com/3t55y JB