Laminating

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Bracken643
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Laminating

Post by Bracken643 »

After reading some posts about float mounting most say to laminate the picture to a bit of mount board or foam board but what adhesive do you recommend for this.
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Re: Laminating

Post by Abacus »

I'm not sure what this has to do with float mounting, but anyway:

There is hot mounting in a press (hot press for example) which uses heat and pressure activated adhesive, followed by laminating (I.e. Over laying with a coating) which again is heat and pressure activated. A hot press uses vacuum and heated glass, an ademco uses clamping pressure and a heated steel plate.

These is cold mounting between rollers (jet mounter for example) which use pressure only activated adhesive and laminating film.
Roboframer

Re: Laminating

Post by Roboframer »

I'm sure you don't mean laminating, which is to cover something with a transparent adhesive film, not fixing to a surface, which is what you probably mean.

If it's something on paper it could be mounted with pass-through hinges or possibly encapsulated.
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