Ryadia wrote:

"Colin D" wrote in message
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In my pro days I did a lot of dry mounting, and never went anywhere near
350
degrees. That is an absurd temperature for dry-mounting. All modern
dry-mount tissue is designed to work with PE (plastic-coated) papers, at
about
180- 190 deg. F., as also is texturizing film.

Choose or make a test print and get the shop to mount it with Seal (tm) or
similar tissue at 185 deg. and check the result.

Colin.

Why bother with heat anyway?
I've been using a vacuum mounting press with EVA adheasive sprayed on the
board for most of this year and never had a failure. When I used a heat
press I got failures and high costs. Should be a heap of framers using
vacuum. None around my way use heat presses.

From a pro point of view, heat mounting produces a high-quality, flat and smooth
mounted print. Cold adhesives are prone to producing a less-flat result,
variations in glue thickness showing up as slight undulations in the print
surface. A vacuum press with a flat metal platen might do a bit better, but in
my experience, dry-mounting looks the best.

Colin