Canvas mounting technique
Charlie McMillion
I'm looking for some info on the printing/mounting technique that is
very popular in the high-end portrait market. Many of the prints are
mounted with using a technique thatgives them a canvas-like look and
texture. They are often air-brushed after mounting to give them a look
almost like that of a painting. My questions:
1. What is the proper term for this mounting technique?
2. Is it a modification of standard dry-mounting?
3. Does anything special have to be done in the print-making
process i.e., special paper) to prepare for this type of
mounting?
4. Are there any labs in the Washington D.C. area that do this well?
Thanks
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Darrell A. Larose
Charlie McMillion (c...@clark.net) writes:
> I'm looking for some info on the printing/mounting technique that is
> very popular in the high-end portrait market. Many of the prints are
> mounted with using a technique thatgives them a canvas-like look and
> texture. They are often air-brushed after mounting to give them a look
> almost like that of a painting. My questions:
>
> 1. What is the proper term for this mounting technique?
Canvas mounting
> 2. Is it a modification of standard dry-mounting?
It's more like lamination. I've done all sorts of them. You seperate the
emulsion from the paper base, this is then mounted on a treated canvas
you dampen the canvas than the print layer is tacked to the heat sensitive
canvas. Using a hardbed press and a neoprene mat and a teflon cover the
print is forced into the canvas. The print is then normally lacquered or
laminated for protection. The lamination method has the surface of the print
laminated before the paper base is stripped, the other method the paper is
mounted on mounting board and the thin layer is stripped from the backing.
The print can be mounted on a canvas stretcher frame like an oil painting,
and lacquer can be sprayed or brushed on (brushing will look more like a
painting)
> 3. Does anything special have to be done in the print-making
> process i.e., special paper) to prepare for this type of
> mounting?
I usually made a second identical print because sometimes S**t Happens!
sometimes you tear the print in the stripping process. The surface lamination
method is more robust and normally doesn't tear.
> 4. Are there any labs in the Washington D.C. area that do this well?
Don't know about that, check with your yellow pages, ask if they offer
canvas mounting.
Darrell Larose
Photo Technician
Ottawa, Ontario
Allen Greenky
Canvas mounting is simular to regular photo mounting, but it requires
MUCH more pressure. It takes very heavy platten. I have an Ademco 2224
which is about the size of a trackter lawn mower without wheels. It has
a big steering wheel on top that you use for screwing down the two halfs
so you build up about 2 thousand pounds of pressure. You have to have a
teflon coated rubber pad so the print doesn't stick to the pad.
There's a place called Tara Products that sells the precoated canvas and
the presses. If anyone is interested, I could sell mine as I don;t use
it much and could use the money for an epson pro. It's $1500 and wieghts
about 350 lbs crated for shipping. It has to be trucked.
Most professional labs that target the portrait wedding photographer
offer the service. Most labs us a vaccum press that can suck 10 thousand
pounds of pressure!
I've also had the experience of some labs putting a heavy canvas texture
on the print and then gluing the print to the canvas! seriously.
Charlie McMillion wrote:
>
> I'm looking for some info on the printing/mounting technique that is
> very popular in the high-end portrait market. Many of the prints are
> mounted with using a technique thatgives them a canvas-like look and
> texture. They are often air-brushed after mounting to give them a look
> almost like that of a painting. My questions:
>
> 1. What is the proper term for this mounting technique?
> 2. Is it a modification of standard dry-mounting?
> 3. Does anything special have to be done in the print-making
> process i.e., special paper) to prepare for this type of
> mounting?
> 4. Are there any labs in the Washington D.C. area that do this well?
>
Allen Greenky
Charlie McMillion wrote:
>
> I'm looking for some info on the printing/mounting technique that is
> very popular in the high-end portrait market. Many of the prints are
> mounted with using a technique thatgives them a canvas-like look and
> texture. They are often air-brushed after mounting to give them a look
> almost like that of a painting. My questions:
>
> 1. What is the proper term for this mounting technique?
> 2. Is it a modification of standard dry-mounting?
Yes (see my previous post)
3. Does anything special have to be done in the print-making
> process i.e., special paper) to prepare for this type of
> mounting?
When the print is finished, you peel the back layers off. worry one
corner of the print and pull the layers back. Take a pencil and roll
two, three, four inches of polyester resin off at a time.
An advanced technique is to press the front of the print into some
laminate first, and then peel ALL the backing off so only the emultion is
left on the laminate. That would bring out every bit of detail of the
canvas.
the Thinner the better.
> 4. Are there any labs in the Washington D.C. area that do this well?
Call around. The labs you want offer package printing for portrait and
wedding photographers, retouching and airbrushing too. This is a service
that photographers would add to these others.
mng...@ids2.idsonline.com
In article <56vi8h$e...@clarknet.clark.net>,
c...@clark.net (Charlie McMillion) wrote:
>I'm looking for some info on the printing/mounting technique that is
>very popular in the high-end portrait market. Many of the prints are
>mounted with using a technique thatgives them a canvas-like look and
>texture. They are often air-brushed after mounting to give them a look
>almost like that of a painting. My questions:
>
>1. What is the proper term for this mounting technique?
> process i.e., special paper) to prepare for this type of
> mounting?
>
>
Hi,
We do canvas transfer at our store. Our store is located in Sprinfield area.
We will make an enlargment and then transfer to canvas; brushing is extra. We
do not stretch the canvas, but mount it on har foam board like Gator board,
Nucor board. Also mount it to frame for you if you already have frame.
Our store name is Buddy Photo, and address is 6130 Brandon Ave, Springfield,
VA 22150
Tel: 703-913-9131
The technique is to laminate the photo and peel it of the backing then adhere
it to canvas(coarse, medium or fine) material using hot vacuum or mechanical
press. You can laminate then adhere to canvas without peeling off the photo
backing but the texture does not show well in final product.
Hope this help.