mounting material

[julian_4860]

Hi Adrian, I know you are in Madrid, but these guys http://www.egm.es/servicios_interior.php?idFamilia=8 do a lot of work for MACBA and others in Barcelona, including Sergio Bellinchrom's large format (in all senses of the word) prints. The other guys who do a lot of large format work locally are these http://www.sabate.net/

[Bruce Watson]

The problem with a conventional frame is the weight of the glazing material. Also, the reflections. You've got the major ways to do it - aluminum and gatorboard.

One of the advantages of digital printing using an inkjet printer is that you can print on canvas. You stretch the canvas onto a stretcher frame just like an oil painting, and frame it in either a conventional frame or a floater frame, just like an oil painting. Classic look, light weight, no glazing. And, you can stretch it yourself - it doesn't take any special machines or materials outside of a staple gun and canvas pliers. This, of course, makes transport of the print very much easier (mailing tube).

But for a conventional photographic print on paper, you've got to mount it to something. How you get it back from whoever has the machines and materials to mount it that size, I have no idea. That's a huge thin plate to ship back - you are going to have to pack it really carefully to keep it from getting broken or bent by the shipper. Something to think about, as is how you are going to ship glass that size.

[adrian tyler]

luckily hogarth, i am right in the centre of madrid, and hanging space, mounting place and my house are all pretty close, once the thing is all framed, bubble wrapped etc. most normal carriers can handle it.

thanks for the links julian i knew of sabate precicely through sergio belinchon, if possible though i'd like to get it mounted here in madrid, for all the reasons hogarth metioned.

thanks

[julian_4860]

Hi Adrian,
I'm going through a similar process with a 40x40 inch print. I'm getting it mounted on aluminium and then wooden framed with the glass away from the print, no over matte. The aluminium is rigid enough to hold it. I could have had an overmatte layed over the mounted print but decided not to. Damn thing will be heavy though

[Jan Van Hove]

Hi,

Sorry for the newbie question, i tend to leave the mounting and framing of my prints to professionnals...

How do you mount a photograph to a metal sheet ? What kind of adhesive do you use ? Is it archivable ? (Probably not if there is some adhesive material involved...)

Thanks for your insights...

PJ

[adrian tyler]

<i>How do you mount a photograph to a metal sheet ?<i>

you take it to a professional

<i>What kind of adhesive do you use ?<i>

ahdhesive has been used for centuries to stick canvases etc.

<i>Is it archivable ?<i>

it can be