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Acrylic face-mounting

2016-09-17 by goch@...

Do any of you have experience with Bay Photo Lab's "acrylic mounting" or equivalent?


Bay Photo simply describes this as "lustre or metallic photo prints face mounted to a crystal clear acrylic surface". I understand all the words, of course, but have no idea how a lustre surface print would be "face mounted" to acrylic. Any idea what they do? From the appearance of their products it appears that the front surface of the print actually adheres to the acrylic. What adhesive or process could be used?


This is not something I would routinely do, but it might make a nice gift for someone not addicted to "museum quality, archival" printing, mounting and presentation. Yes, I could simply buy the service, but I enjoy putting as much of my own skill and labour into gifts as I reasonably can.


Myron


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