Digital BW, The Print

Mitch

a point I like to raise is that even at 1mm it is very possible to bend the
alumium sheet. If you mount with double sided tape and it is one those good
stick wide strip, your unmounting experience could be either a bent alumium
sheet with or without a crumpled print. I like the idea of alumium as a
mounting base it is not likely to have a chemical reaction to kill the
prints or flex and dimensional change as mounting board.

ellery


  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, mitcha@m... wrote:
  > I print with Ultrachrome inks on Epson Premium Semi-Matte paper
  which
  > is then laminated. I want to mount these 24x36 inch (60x90cm) prints
  > on aluminum sheets for an eventual exhibition. What thickness should
  > the aluminum sheets be (1mm, 1.5mm, 2mm)?
  >
  > Obviously, thicker sheets will flex less but I figure that, if the
  > prints mounted the aluminum sheets are then hung on a gallery wall
  > (using double-sided adhesive tape?), flexing should not be a problem
  > -- so that I should be able to use 1mm aluminum sheets. Is that right?
  >
  > I like the idea of selling prints mounted this way because the buyer
  > can then frame them any way he or she desires -- the prints have a
  > 1/2 inch white border and, as they are laminated, can be framed
  > without glass.
  >
  > --Mitch/Bangkok




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