Do fiber prints ever dry flat? If my fiber prints did not curl I'd think something was wrong. I don't consider a fiber print by itself complete until dry mounted.
In my experience, RC is the only material that is presentable without dry mounting, even my RC prints have a slight curl.
Will Wilson
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When I received 100's of 8X10 and 11/14 WET prints to sort for my second Print Exchange from all over our world
Some mounted, most not
They were very flat
Drying on a screen is only the first step
Tin Can
Not perfect...but you can also run two drying lines one above the other, allowing prints to be clipped to both top and bottom edges - effectively holding them under tension from both sides. Another advantage here is that there is no contact of the prints' surfaces while they are drying.
Are you a betting man? ;-). I'm betting that isn't going to work. These prints lift a screen when I put one above. They will buckle a towel if I leave one on top.
....and what if I want to print borderless? No, I'm not giving away any of the expensive paper. I bought it all and I want to use it all.
thx!
I've been following this and the previous thread, and I admit that I'm stumped. Especially since I did have this issue a while back, and now I don't.
All I can offer now is a) check the alignment of your press (if that's possible) and b)leave your prints in the press longer.
Don't give up (and don't print borderless)!
Your press is heated, right?
So I don’t understand… you’re looking for self-flatness after drying… but that’s a unicorn with FB paper. I appreciate you may be able to mitigate it some with chemicals, perfect squeegeeing, controlled RH to 0.1%, etc , but who cares if you can flatten it with the press? (I’m joking with my rhetoric, but you get the point I hope).
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