Digital BW, The Print

There are a couple of ways to go at this.. Their process is to use a laminating film (adhesive both sides) and a laminator (a machine that used rollers to feed the job thru) the better films use heated rollers. The image stock you choose typically wants to be smooth so that you get a total surface mesh between the image and the acrylic.. You can use the same process to mount a sheet of aluminum or a second sheet of acrylic to the back of the job.. Then the print is basically encapsulated.. You don’t want to use a stock that has texture to it as that will leave micro air pockets which you’ll read..

 

You can use an acrylic that has a UV protection and if you use the right adhesive films the process can be said to be archival.. The other way to do this is to use a silicone adhesive but this process is much more involved (commonly known and Diasec face mounting) .. Both John C and myself played with these processes a while back.. I still have cases of silicon here.. Unless it’s changed the most expensive photograph ever sold was a large Diasec image encapsulated using silicon.. About 3 million or something like that .. can’t remember now..

Anyway, using either way the images display very well.

 

jimbo

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 6:34 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Acrylic face-mounting

 

  

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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