Digital BW, The Print

Well I thought I would chime in on my own concern about mismatch 
between paper blue-whites and mat board's warmer tones (even so called 
bright white boards). When matting an image with a reveal around it and 
showing the paper base, this mismatch can look bad. Now I know this 
might sound a bit traditional, but I still am drymounting my trimmed 
images to the back mat board with a nice reveal showing that board all 
the way around. 3/8" sides and top and 1/2" bottom for the signature. 
The mismatch problem is therfore eliminated. The reveal is a nice 
detail to the finished job. For some reason the drymounting technique 
has gone out of favor, but it sure looks nice, avoids the paper reveal 
color problem, and makes that image so wonderfully nice and flat with 
no "ripple" visible anywhere. I still love this clean look. For those 
who wonder, I have never had any problems whatsoever in drymounting all 
sorts of inkjet prints. All the papers and inks seem to do just fine. I 
also use the Fusion 4000 product which is just the archival glue and 
not any paper substrate.

Just some thoughts on this topic....

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