Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

First of all congratulations on the upcoming show. Good work!

I agree with Steadman about shipping the prints unframed if possible. I 
recently did a show in Italy (I live in France) and had to take the 
prints with me by plane. I did the following:

Matted the A3 size prints with 40x50cm white archival window 
mats/backboard, put each in a clear archival glassine envelope for 
protection and placed them in a print box. Put the box in a suitcase 
surrounded by pieces of umm...what do you call it - the white very 
lightweight rigid stuff that comes in either pellets or extruded shapes 
for packaging. Took the suitcase with me as checked luggage.

When I got to destination I brought the prints to a previusly contacted 
framer and had them framed and delivered locally. In this case I used 
glass and luckily sold the whole show so I didn't have to cart them back 
to Paris :)  but if I had to ship home I would have unframed them and had 
them shipped separately. Using plexiglass is a good idea which I didn't 
think of at the time. 

Cheers,

Nina

>* Any advice on how to ship about thirty 30'x30" framed prints?