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call mark

0207 749 0618

mark@artfinish.co.uk

call mark

0207 749 0618

mark@artfinish.co.uk

Window mounts still needed!

mornin all !
still lookin for someone to supply us with these sizes in window mounts with 2" borders all round

2 month lead time

Thanks to those who pm'd will be intouch in the morning

Size Quantity 600x600 24x24 140 500x800 20x32 80 750x900 30x36 347 1350x400 53x16 347 650x900 26x36 136 1200x500 48x20 21 800x500 32x20 21 500x500 20x20 180 1272 ALL FRAMED WITH APPROX 25 MM X 25MM NATURAL OAK AND OR SAME IN BLACK GLAZING TO BE ACRYLIC MOUNT TO BE 2" A/R ( JUST WINDOW MOUNT) BO...

No matter what type of print or tape used the material should NEVER be placed behind the image area but should always be attached within the border.
This is why any print should always be printed with as much border as possible minimum requirements are 30 / 40mm

with the old cibachrome print any imbalance or change in the prints (dyes) pH level can overtime result in the alteration of it's chemical structure. Like many colour photographic prints the three dyes (cyan magenta and yellow) can react to changes in their environment at different rates. However if...

It's always inportant to remember that photographs have their own pH value.
Ciba's (now known as Ilfochromes) have a natural rating of 6.5 to 6.8( as long as they have been processed correctly) So it is best to find a archival board in the same range of pH value

".....and a bit of luck"

out of respect for my fellow members that I word my posts thus. We should do lunch sometime as we're now neighbours

First pints on me Simon

The process you describe is called Diasec, and Kay Mounting do it better than anyone else in London, as far as i am aware. There may be someone nearer to you who does it, but if not you'll be in safe hands at Kay Mounting. They are unsurpassed in my experience for Diasec and for drymounts onto alum...

Hi mate if you havnt got this done yet give us a call

0207 749 0618

mark

thanks stcstc
My mounting guys cut the diabond on the sagetech I must admit I prefer foamex for the rigidity diabonds good for our acrylic reverses and the ali too I have posted some reading matter to my customer trying to enlighten him to the pointlessness of it all

Questions: Is the print valuable? No value but expensive to print Does it need to be mounted? yes as it 60" x 40" flatter the better Why is he asking for it to be mounted onto rag board? some idiot put the idea in his head Why pressure adhesive mounting? coz thats what we do There doesn't...

Hi mate thanks for your time, not using heat tissue just the pressure type. the other problem with using mount boards as the substrate is that they're S**T! the surface isnt hard enough to give a good surface for the print, foamex has a great surface, similarly Ali or dibond but somewhere someone ha...

Ive got a customer that's asking me to drymount a print onto ragboard. He seems to think the archival qualities of the board in some way help with the conservation of his work!!!!!! This ones got me stumped! when I use the pressure adhiesive PSA66 theres noway this is gonna be reversable. I know for...

Try re gluing and using a band clamp as they've probably warped by now there's not much use breaking them apart and getting them back together.

i had just taken over a framing company in Mayfair. Had a freelance friend in to help me at the beginning. one day we were asked by an gallery customer if we could swop over a framed Jim Dine print for another. As i had to go out I asked him if he would do it and get it back to the gallery. After I ...

the taped corner I posted above took me 15 mins