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Wavy Prints! Arrrrrrrg!
I'll make this quick and dirty. Will Fugi Crystal Archive lay flatter than Kodak Endura? Yes I'm using standard 'archival' mounting methods. Just hinging the print. Mounting behind plexi with standard methods. My Endura paper prints are unpleasingly wavy even in this very dry Texas climate ... kept in very dry AC maintained house. At present all my prints have been made by Holland Labs in Austin, Tx. using their Chromira printer on glossy paper.
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Wavy Prints! Arrrrrrrg!
My Enduras are flat but then the biggest I've made lately is 11x14 on cut sheet.
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Thanks Nick. My 11 x 14s are ok as well. It's the larger prints I'm having trouble with.
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I always dry mount Crystal Archive prints on Gatorboard.
Low temp (170 deg F); they can blister if you go too hot.
Matte is better for dry mounting however as you can get an orange peel effect with Glossy and especially Super Glossy.
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My Crystal Archive prints all seem to stay flat using hinge mounting, but I don't see why Endura should curl.
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Doug,
But then you can no longer claim they are archivally mounted, no? Granted this archival bit has been overhyped and disinformationized by the inkjet folks but it has become a buzword one cannot avoid.
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But then you can no longer claim they are archivally mounted, no? Granted this archival bit has been overhyped and disinformationized by the inkjet folks but it has become a buzword one cannot avoid."
Oh - long before that. With "archival" film sleeves, "archival" print washing, "archival" processing, "archival" mounting tape, "archival" matte boards, "archival" colour prints, "archival" mounting tissue... and much more. All hyped to the nth dgeree, with many such productcs and proceedures not meeting archival standards (or their advetrtised promises) at all once a few years had passed. Just look through any old catalogue of photographic supplies or back copies of Pop Photo for the 60's, 70's or 80's
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Maybe...but I'd rather have a dry mounted and FLAT print than a warped one. The dry mounting tissue is "archival" and pH buffered. Guess I'm not a purist.
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Probably a humidity, or lack of problem. If you have aprint you can test on hang it in the bathroom to see if it relaxes. I live in northern AZ. I have some prints on kodak metallic paper mounted like you describe. they will not stay flat but I noticed, after showers, the one in the hall is not wavy. I'm honestly thinking of drymounting. From what I hear color prints will fade before the drymount bothers them anyway.
Disclaimer:
The last statement is pure hearsay so don't jump all over me.
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Dry mount the prints, just like Doug wrote. I'd rather see a nice flat print -how ever long it lasts- than look a wavy thing that'll still be wavy when I die. And if you use good materials you don't have to worry about it anyway.