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cool, i got some flat boards and am going to use those, first I am going to flatten them a drop with books since they are very rolled
I use bulldog clips with my foamboard sandwich to flatten... makes it easy to pick up and move as well if need be while flattening. You can put a bunch of prints in there too, just put tissue/glassine between the prints (I personally use acid free poly bags). Here is a a couple pics....
@Jason Bourne that is similar to what I have minus the poly bag, i have 2 prints facing the foamboard on each side with a piece of kraft paper between them and am using binder clips though I have the clips at each corner a bit closer to the corners
@mllNY
That is great that you got the sale price for the portfolio! Did you have to use the screen grab picture to convince them to give you the sale price?
On flattening, I use kraft paper. I did some diligence on acid free paper - and from what I have read, non acid free paper is only a problem when it is in contact with a print over a period of time (Months to years). So a week of flattening is no issue. (Any members feel free to correct me if my info is incorrect. That is what I have read.)
I found this video helpful for the initial rollout of a print after receiving it.
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@C.C. 95 ... half the time I dont put any paper on top haha. So long as you aren't sliding whatever you put down as weight no issue. Just direct down, weight it down. Lately I been using the steelbook display stands we sell cause them suckers are a half pound each! And that's pretty heavy for such a small area. So i put a few in a stack wherever i want to weight down.
@Wreck
After weighing them down for a few days, and then flipping them over and weighing them down again (of course with the tissue type paper on top) for another few days... These guys just won't go completely flat!
I use large heavy books (Taschen Stanley Kubrick book, Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, and the Taschen book of Hieronymus Bosch do the heavy job!!). But, absolute flatness eludes me!
I figure once I have them all in the portfolio, I'm just going to put a big slab of heavy on the whole portfolio!!
Lucky you have a pool table! That seems custom-made for working posters (absolute flat suface, gentle felt...)!
Maybe @Jason Bourne and his bulldog clips and foamboard are the way...
I'm not patient enough to wait a few months!!I never get absolute flat unless I go the walmart frame route. I got a few of those (cheap) 24x36 and I put some posters in those and just forget about it ...after a few months they are damn flat.
I'm trying to reclaim my closet where my posters are stored!!
I'm just about at halfway through...
I think I'm going to try sticking a few prints in one frame for flattening and see how that goes. (course not anything super valuable) Granted im sure the better way is print/glassine paper/print inside a foamcore sandwich .... but like Austin Powers .... I like to live dangerously ..
If anybody has a solution for this I would love to hear it:
I have a Giclee print that has some weird scatches (it came that way). But the scratches only appear when you look at it in a certain light or angle. It's like there is a clear coat on top that has been scratched, but not the actual art underneath. Anyone have this issue with Glicee print?
I have a Giclee print that has some weird scatches (it came that way). But the scratches only appear when you look at it in a certain light or angle. It's like there is a clear coat on top that has been scratched, but not the actual art underneath. Anyone have this issue with Glicee print?
@C.C. 95 I did have to send a screen grab, the woman thought it was just a glitch but really I think it was they were in the process of removing the sale but forgot to take the sale price down from everywhere, but they were not argumentative about it at all.
I can say this thing feels very well built quality wise and it is actually quite heavy and has a nice leathery feel. There are two small issues with mine though, the zipper pull came out, not the zipper but the tab, I just have to clamp the opening closed, also one set of rings are not 100% aligned but since I am using this for storage mainly I am not as concerned.
As to the flattening process. I gave up on the binder clips on the foam boards and went with my Walking Dead hardcover books. They are fairly heavy and large and with 10 they spread out nicely. I did that last night so we will see how well that goes. If I don't start seeing some progress soon I am abandoning the top part of the boards. Also I may have to flip them soon
I can say this thing feels very well built quality wise and it is actually quite heavy and has a nice leathery feel. There are two small issues with mine though, the zipper pull came out, not the zipper but the tab, I just have to clamp the opening closed, also one set of rings are not 100% aligned but since I am using this for storage mainly I am not as concerned.
As to the flattening process. I gave up on the binder clips on the foam boards and went with my Walking Dead hardcover books. They are fairly heavy and large and with 10 they spread out nicely. I did that last night so we will see how well that goes. If I don't start seeing some progress soon I am abandoning the top part of the boards. Also I may have to flip them soon
@mllNY
I'm starting to be convinced that to really flatten these, they need to be under pressure for quite a while. (A week per side maybe?). A few days on each side is not doing it for mine. I just think you need time and heavy pressure to change the muscle memory of the paper!
That's great news about the portfolio. Before I bought mine I had read reviews about how a bunch of people have had the exact same problem with the zipper pull coming off - so you are not the first!
And as you said, it's not a huge deal since you're not dragging your portfolio all over the place.
My binder rings are not perfect either. This is not a humongous issue, but be aware of this – once you have quite a few sleeves in there (I have about 25) - you have to be careful about flipping them. You can't flip in bunches.
When I did that, some of the sleeves would snag. What I am doing is using metal tape on any of the binder rings that cause a snag. (Basically the metal tape closes any gap in the ring). That means I have to take the tape off whenever I want to put in a new sleeve… But that's not a huge deal. I only had to do it on about three or four rings.
But definitely flip one page at a time.
Well there is that Poster Mountain who do restoration .... they are the masters ... but I dont believe their process or price would be wise for screen print. But crazily enough they can take wrinkled movie posters or those folded one sheets and totally flatten them. I wonder if they steam them or something. I believe @cooey once posted some crazy pics of a before and after of his Twins poster.
Thanks @Wreck
I think you are right- unless you have a really valuable print, the cost of the restoration is probably just too prohibitive vs. the value of the print.
I am curious to find that post by @cooey...that I would like to see! As we all know, the pre-1980s prints were always folded- so I am wondering if that process would make the folds more invisible...or is that just sacrilege?!!
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