Digital BW, The Print

Oh yes for float mounting any good frame shop or framing supply will have acrylic spacer 
strips in stock. What you do is attach the acrylic spacer strips to the plexi or glass with the 
adhesive that they come coated with ( peel off ) . Then you have a space between the print 
and the glass so that the glass doesn't touch the print. I did a whole exhibition like this for 
graduate school where I had burned black edges around the silver composite prints and 
framed in black frames. Some people even use a very thick moulding, like used for 
framing paintings, for the frame to put even more space there. They make different 
thickness of the acrylic strips for this. One thing to remember though, if you don't have an 
over matte and your print is large it can sometimes buckle a little bit unless it is mounted 
somehow. With prints up to 16x20 I don't think it would be an issue at all except under 
very humid conditions. Having said that I've seen plenty of "floated" prints in museums 
and galleries that are not completely flat. I guess it depends on the character of the work 
and how perfect you want the flatness. I never had to drymount my 16x20's or even 20x24 
silver prints and an occasional wavy thing going on didn't bother me.

john dean
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> Arthur Fink <arthur@m...> wrote:
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> I've got a number of 17 x 22 images that I'd like to frame with the 
> appearance of having no mat. (They are black & white enlarged contact 
> sheets, and I like the feeling of having the black image blend directly 
> into the black frame.)
> 
> Of course, there must be some kind of spacer, so that the glass is not 
> directly in contact with the paper. Perhaps there could be some kind of 
> gasket ... or a special extrusion instead of the Nielsen #11 moulding that 
> I typically would use.
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> Any ideas? Any experience?
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
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> Arthur Fink
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