Digital BW, The Print

First of all, bend those clips so they don't apply so much pressure -
just flatten them out a bit until they fit with a lot less pressure.
And don't use more than one for every 6 or 8 inches of frame length or
less, depending on the stiffness of your backer. Eventually, you'll
have a nice collection of the excess shiny metal spring clips that the
frame makers include with all frame sizes, no matter how small; with
luck they might one day become collector's items!

I've noticed the impressions of the glued linen tape on my recent
Ilford Smooth Pearl prints, but not on older EEM or Museo papers,
maybe due to ISP's sort of glossy surface. The ISP dents show up even
with the relatively lower pressure, unbent, clips I've been using for
years, but I think it is really due to the wetness of the tape when it
goes on, which might be causing softening and expanding the paper,
because I found it on prints that had not been framed yet, they were
lying on my mat table for a few days with only the weight of one sheet
of 1/8 foam core on top.

I have had to resort to using an "Artist's" tape for mounting that
paper instead of the more archival linen.

Frank


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Doug I.
<puzzolente@s...> wrote:
> I've noticed the hinge outline popping up too lately with the
Lineco 
> gummed archival hinging tape. I don't think it has so much to do
with 
> the hinging method used (well...unless you were using a really thin 
> tissue), but more to do with the really powerful spring clips that
come 
> with the Nielsen frames I buy. They put a lot of pressure on the 
> mat/photo/glass sandwich. Maybe I just need to be buying frames
with a 
> deeper channel--or switch to wood, which is more of a pain IMO?
> 
> Doug
>