How do you laminate art prints
JW
question.
Is there a way that one can laminate art prints (posters) at home ? I
have some
art prints which I want to hang at home and I like the way some shops
glue and
laminte prints onto boards with some sort of non-glossy laminate
texture finish. Is there a way I can do it at home other than paying
the shop $150 each ?
T
It would basically turn the poster into a big post-it note (albeit a little
bit stickier) which you could then stick onto a board. Not sure about what
to use for the non-gloss laminate look.
-T
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Charlie Self
>I would use a 3M spray mount product called Super 77 or similar spray mount.
>It would basically turn the poster into a big post-it note (albeit a little
>bit stickier) which you could then stick onto a board. Not sure about what
>to use for the non-gloss laminate look.
>
There used to be a sheet adhesive mount, many, many moons ago, for photos.
Don't know if it still exists or not. That and a warm iron worked nicely. Then
a nice matte art spray to dull the surface.
But the last time I did that was some time back in the early or mid-70s.
The OP might google for sheet adhesives, or something similar and follow the
trail from there.
Charlie Self
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Charlie Self
>
>There used to be a sheet adhesive mount, many, many moons ago, for photos.
>Don't know if it still exists or not. That and a warm iron worked nicely.
>Then
>a nice matte art spray to dull the surface.
>
>But the last time I did that was some time back in the early or mid-70s.
>
>The OP might google for sheet adhesives, or something similar and follow the
>trail from there.
And I tried. Found about 3-4 useful looking pressure (very light) transfer
adhesives in 11x14 and 9x12 sheets, around 16 bucks for 10.
No heat needed, apparently.
B a r r y
wrote:
>There used to be a sheet adhesive mount, many, many moons ago, for photos.
>Don't know if it still exists or not. That and a warm iron worked nicely. Then
>a nice matte art spray to dull the surface.
I used that stuff in a night college photo class recently. It does
still exist, I bought mine at an art / framing supply house.
I remember it being called "dry mount paper".
Barry
Shawn "Me" Hearn
buyw...@hotmail.com (JW) wrote:
Why bother laminating the prints? You can go to a good art supply store
such as Michaels and buy inexpensive frames for your prints.
Charlie Self
But the OP may prefer the look of lamination. I checked my Porter's
(www.porters.com) catalog earlier: lots of mounting tissue in there at
reasonable prices. Almost any photo shop should have similar stuff, art supply
stores may also and craft stores (Michael's) could carry some, though I don't
recall ever seeing it in the Michael's here--no longer in business, so I can't
check.
cozy
store. It has plastic instead of glass and once you lay your poster on
the mat and put on the plastic, you just push the frame (4 sections) on from
each side - and they are lightweight. Laminate just could make bubbles.
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Chris
cost around 50$ US for a 2'x3' poster.
If you want to go real cheap but relatively stable, try using acrylic medium
both as a glue (between the poster and the support) and a sealer (over the
poster). I've used this to try and preserve newsprint sketches, it works ok.
Cheers;
Chris
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Mark
B a r r y wrote:
> I used that stuff in a night college photo class recently. It does
> still exist, I bought mine at an art / framing supply house.
>
> I remember it being called "dry mount paper".
Dry Mount Tissue.
I hope the OP is doing this mounting to cheap posters as dry mount, glue and
lamination will degrade the poster, physically, visually and monetarily.
If the posters have collectable value either now or in the future you'll pretty
much destroy that value by using dry mount, glue or lamination. But hey, that's
what makes the unperverted posters worth so much.
I would have mat cut and mount them in frames. As my professor who did archival
preservation said, do it right and they'll look this good in 100 years ....
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Sure, but unless you dry mount them they'll end up with ripples in the
poster paper under the glass and you'll have an unattractive and very non
professional looking result.
And at poster size even those metal frames that come in sets of two pieces
each can run into some real money. If you want something that looks decent
you don't even want to think about those flimsy little pieces of plastic
that snap on. They start to sag and fall off within a couple months, at
least that's been my experience.
Dilettante
> Plaque mounts for posters are relatively cheap - or should be. Here they
> cost around 50$ US for a 2'x3' poster.
> If you want to go real cheap...
Is this what you use for your kiddie porn pictures?
Dilettante
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Charlie Self
>> Plaque mounts for posters are relatively cheap - or should be. Here they
>> cost around 50$ US for a 2'x3' poster.
>> If you want to go real cheap...
>
>Is this what you use for your kiddie porn pictures?
Ta, assholes. This is a woodworking group you're crossposting to. We tried
helping. It's simpler to twit filter you.
Andrew D
In my experience, laminate yellows after a while.
Andy D.