Hi, since moving to a different area, many of my prints are buckling in the frame. They are corner mounted and over-matted. I was thinking of dry mounting back to back with the same type of photo paper and then corner mounting. Does anyone have experience with this and would it keep the prints from buckling?
Point well taken. But if you still want the flexibility of having your print removable from the mat and frame, yes, you can use a sheet of developed, fixed and well-washed paper of the same kind. It renders a somewhat bulky finished product, and still may exhibit some unevenness in the surface appearance, but it's better than having the print curl up like a leaf! I think you can find more details on this procedure from AA books, "The Print" probably the first (earlier) edition.
You could even use a print of a different image on it and market it as a twofer. Every few years the owner could flip the paper and have a different image to look at!
Shawn -- the advantage of this would be all benefits of not dry mounting to a board (mats can be replaced if damaged, print can be washed if needed), and it would provide the protection dry mounting gives by preventing any contaminates from migrating from behind the print to the image. (Mount tissue is more of a wax than a glue)
Funny, I just suggested drymountind a piece of photopaper to the back of his photo to a student last night up at the university -- he wants to "float" the print off the matboard by drymounting his print to a piece of matboard smaller than the print, then drymount this to the larger piece of matboard within a showdowbox sort of frame. This would keep the edges of the print from curling too much.
Because of paper shrinkage, you will want to make sure both pieces of photo paper are dry (use the mount press...bake for 30 seconds and then open and close the mount press several times to drive out the moisture.) This will help to make sure the two pieces of photo paper remain the same size. If the backing photopaper shrinks less than the photopaper with the image, you could have a bit of the backing photopaper and tissue showing around the edge.
You should probably use the same photopaper for the back that the image is on, as different papers might swell and shrink at different rates. Also orient the papers in the same direction -- papers often shrink/expand more in one direction that the other. This will give you the minimum of curling.
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