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Old November 24th 04, 08:28 AM
Derideo
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I am planning on having a series of prints from my Epson 1280 that were
printed on Epson paper using Epson inks dry mounted. Since the press uses
temperatures up to 350 degrees I was wondering if the inks can handle that
heat. The frame shop that does my dry mounting was unsure of an answer.
Has anyone done this? Thanks.

Norm


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Old November 24th 04, 08:40 AM
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The inks might handle the temprature but the plastic coating on the paper
won't!

"Derideo" wrote in message
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I am planning on having a series of prints from my Epson 1280 that were
printed on Epson paper using Epson inks dry mounted. Since the press uses
temperatures up to 350 degrees I was wondering if the inks can handle that
heat. The frame shop that does my dry mounting was unsure of an answer.
Has anyone done this? Thanks.

Norm




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Old November 24th 04, 02:32 PM
Leonard Lehew
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:28:25 GMT, "Derideo"
wrote:

I am planning on having a series of prints from my Epson 1280 that were
printed on Epson paper using Epson inks dry mounted. Since the press uses
temperatures up to 350 degrees I was wondering if the inks can handle that
heat. The frame shop that does my dry mounting was unsure of an answer.
Has anyone done this? Thanks.

Norm

I've had quite a few "computer-generated" prints mounted in this way
with no problem. I do my own mounting and framing now, however, and I
use a 3M product called "Positionable Mounting Adhesive." It's pretty
easy to use, and doesn't require any special equipment.

It's easy enough to produce another copy of the photo, so I'd let them
give it a try and see what happens. If it ruins the photo, you can use
PMA or something similar.

Leonard
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Old November 25th 04, 09:38 AM
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Derideo wrote:

I am planning on having a series of prints from my Epson 1280 that were
printed on Epson paper using Epson inks dry mounted. Since the press uses
temperatures up to 350 degrees I was wondering if the inks can handle that
heat. The frame shop that does my dry mounting was unsure of an answer.
Has anyone done this? Thanks.

Norm


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.

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Old November 25th 04, 09:38 AM
Colin D
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Derideo wrote:

I am planning on having a series of prints from my Epson 1280 that were
printed on Epson paper using Epson inks dry mounted. Since the press uses
temperatures up to 350 degrees I was wondering if the inks can handle that
heat. The frame shop that does my dry mounting was unsure of an answer.
Has anyone done this? Thanks.

Norm


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.

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Old November 25th 04, 11:50 AM
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"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.


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Old November 26th 04, 12:06 AM
Colin D
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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

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Old November 26th 04, 12:06 AM
Colin D
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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

 




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