Digital BW, The Print

Ha. my workmate made my first prints and mounted them on department store cardboard - white smooth surfaced and dark gray ruff, etc.. I don't see any problems after 30 years.

gar

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On 12/30/07 at 2:27 PM Frank Jay wrote:

>Just to pass on something from my experiences. In approx 1973 I
>drymounted some photos onto shirt cardboard..for those not as old as I , 
>it was the cardboard in laundered shirts which , at the time were folded
>around the cardboard. I found two of them a year ago and  there was no
>sign of acid leach or yellowing. They were printed on fiber based paper
>and I washed the hell out of all my prints. I sent them to the people who
>were in them so do'nt have them to show. 
>     I am not sure if this will help...maybe I was just lucky and also
>this was before recycled papers and cardboards. 
>    Instead of the bright white cardboard, maybe if you backed it with
>some inexpensive photo paper that has no acid in it.
>  Frank in NJ
>
>Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>          Hi,
>I'm currently preparing some framed images for local exhibition using my
>stock frames.
>
>Some of the backing boards had got defaced as they've been used so much,
>so what I've done is to buy some quite thin, bright white cardboard to put
>over the old backing boards so that the backs are pristine.
>
>I wondered whether such a practice could be unwise due to acid eventually
>migrating through the formacote or foamcore backing boards and into the
>photo paper. I'm hoping that the formacote or foamcore is thick enough for
>this not to happen - but don't have any experience to base this hope on.
>If so, I could perhaps put a layer of tin foil or polypropylene between
>the two. 
>
>When businesses reopen after the xmas break it might just be easier to buy
>some large sheets of acid-free cardboard but I want to get these pictures
>on display before the end of the holiday season.
>
>thanks,
>Richard
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