Dry Mount Tissue

[Iga]

Hi all.
I was using Dry-Lam tissue for years, but unfortunately my usual suppliers do not stock it anymore for some reason.
So, I am looking for alternative brands ( sheets, not rolls ) and interested in your experience / opinions.
Thanks in advance

[Michael R]

Good question. I have a bunch of Seal/Bienfang Buffermount and Colormount which will last me a long time but I don’t think they are available anymore. Not sure what the current alternatives are. Buffermount was supposedly preferable to Colormount because it was removable, but I always found it harder to use because it bonded as it cooled. John Sexton recommended Colormount at the time so I started using that, but kept the Buffermount in case. When I first started out I used Kodak dry mount tissue.

Curious to know what products have replaced these (if any).

[bob carnie]

I use Drytac. TR42300 3mil premium dry mounting tissue. I am assuming you can get this product in spain

[Iga]

Thanks Bob, but I can't see it in sheets, rolls only...

[xkaes]

I have a bunch of Seal/Bienfang Buffermount and Colormount which will last me a long time but I don’t think they are available anymore.

Let's not get people's blood pressure up any higher. Even with people going digital, they still need to dry-mount prints. Seal Colormount seems to be available everywhere. It's not always been in the cut sizes I wanted, but that's why I have some big long rolls.

[bob carnie]

Thanks Bob, but I can't see it in sheets, rolls only...

Thats how I buy it and cut it down

[Michael R]

Let's not get people's blood pressure up any higher. Even with people going digital, they still need to dry-mount prints. Seal Colormount seems to be available everywhere. It's not always been in the cut sizes I wanted, but that's why I have some big long rolls.

Everywhere as in where, for example?

[Steve Goldstein]

I was looking for 11x14 tissue last year and couldn’t find it. I succeeded in in tracking down the current manufacturer of what used to be Seal Colormount and they told me they were no longer cutting sheets. I ended up buying a 24”-wide roll that will serve any size I’m likely to print. Yes, it’s a pain, but it beats having no tissue at all.

[Drew Wiley]

Seal products became DK, and Colormount etc mfg was shifted to China, and it has apparently since largely disappeared. An excellent substitute is Drytac Trimount, a US product. But it too has run out in most sizes over the past winter, but should show up in decent volume again soon. I need quite a bit of it myself, before I fully run out either my sheets of that, or my big old roll of Colormount. I just checked, and B&H in NYC has just gotten 16X20 sheets of Trimount back in stock; so I'll be ordering that in the next few days. I don't know about EU distribution.

Drymounting is still the standard method of mounting fiber-based prints, and has other standard applications too; so the demand for drymount tissue is still quite high. New drymount presses have gotten awfully expensive; but they last a long time.

Buffermount, intended to be removable if needed, is not as strong or reliable as slightly higher temp Colormount or Trimount. Trimount seems to need a little bit more "dwell time" in the press than Colormount, but otherwise, it's very straightforward switching from one product to the other.

[xkaes]

Everywhere as in where, for example?

https://www.google.com/search?q=seal...bih=1354&dpr=1