Digital BW, The Print

Tom,

You can cut your cost for rag mat board and fomecore by about half if
you buy it by the case. Check out:

http://framingsupplies.com/

Also, that's way too much for glass that size. Don't buy it from a
framing shop, find a local glass place, they should be much cheaper and
they should cut it for you. If you can cut it yourself, get them to sell
you a case and you can get the cost down even more, but 40in. sheets of
glass are a little unwieldy if you've never cut glass before, so be
careful. The pros use a wall-mounted vertical cutter that makes it
pretty easy, but that's like a $1500 piece of equipment.

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Fors [mailto:tom@...] 

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions on what to sign ETFA with.  A 2B
pencil worked great.

I'm done matting and framing it and now I have another question.  I have
about $80 into this and I was wondering if that seems reasonable for a
40x16
or if I can cut some costs next time around.

frame 2ea 40 inches: $17.67
frame 2ea 16 inches: $ 9.23
glass 40x16 inches: $26.57
ragboard 40x32: $11.73
foamcore 40x16: $2.66
linen tape 56 inches: $2.24
ETFA paper: 432 sq inches: $4.11
2200 ink 1/4 cart est: $4.00

Total: $78.21

Thanks
--Tom