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Re: hinge tape visible through photo

2004-09-12 by Doug I.

Ditto for the Ilford Glossy, which has been the main source of my 
problems. But when it happened on some Chromira and Fuji Frontier stuff 
too (also glossy), I started looking more at my matting/framing system.

You may be on to something with the moisture thing....

Doug

> From: "njfranknj" <njfranknj@...>
> 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.

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