Is it okay to dry mount kallitypes?

rince · Feb 10, 2015

Hi,
I usually dry mount my silver gelatine prints for storage and I am considering doing the same with my kallitypes, but I am wondering if the heat of the press will damage the kallitypes.
Anyone here dry mounts their kallitypes? Thanks for your opinions.

Hilo · Feb 10, 2015

Do you mean by dry mount, you glew your prints to carton?

I use the dry mounting presses just to flatten my fiber prints, but I know this press was originally meant for glewing original prints or anything really, to carton. I press my prints flat at roughly 90 degrees and I have the tension of the presses set up not too tight. It means the time of pressing is anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes. Gives me time to do other things at the same time. Different brand presses have a different heat intensity, so there's no general parameter. My presses are a Büscher for 50X60 and a Seal for 40X50 and smaller. The Seal heats up much faster, but the Büscher maintains the high temperatures longer . . .

Unless someone has experience with the kallitypes, I would experiment and try to get good results, with the least tension of your press.

Alternatively, if you are actually mounting to carton why not fix them to carton with acid free photocorners?

rince · Feb 10, 2015

Thank you Hilo,
I am indeed talking about mounting the kallitype more or less permanently to a mount board with mounting tissue. For once it keeps them flat and they would not become 'wavy' over time as happened to some of mine using hinge mounting. For some reason I never liked photocorners. It makes stacking prints in a drawer more prone to ripping and to the actual print slipping out. My dry mounted images can be easily taken out for display and will always look pristine. Sure there are downsides to dry mounting, but I happen to like it and the advantages outway the disadvantages by a good margin. So I was just wondering if someone had already experience with dry mounting kallitypes.

Kindest regards
Dennis

Hilo said:
Do you mean by dry mount, you glew your prints to carton?

I use the dry mounting presses just to flatten my fiber prints, but I know this press was originally meant for glewing original prints or anything really, to carton. I press my prints flat at roughly 90 degrees and I have the tension of the presses set up not too tight. It means the time of pressing is anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes. Gives me time to do other things at the same time. Different brand presses have a different heat intensity, so there's no general parameter. My presses are a Büscher for 50X60 and a Seal for 40X50 and smaller. The Seal heats up much faster, but the Büscher maintains the high temperatures longer . . .

Unless someone has experience with the kallitypes, I would experiment and try to get good results, with the least tension of your press.

Alternatively, if you are actually mounting to carton why not fix them to carton with acid free photocorners?

GregW · Feb 10, 2015

A good article on dry mount pros and cons. I've had a fine art print by a well known photographer ripple in a matte and come in contact with the glass where a tiny piece of the emulsion adhered, then when it shrunk back, pop! off comes a dot of the emulsion. Old stone house, humidity changes...if it had been dry mounted that might not have happened.
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Archival/Cons/cons.html

nsurit · Feb 10, 2015

I flaten my prints, including my kallitypes and hinge mount. Although I've dry mounted in the past, it has been probably 45 year since I last permanently committed a print to piece of mat board.

Andrew O'Neill · Feb 10, 2015

Yes, you can dry mount them. I did it all the time. Recently I have been hinge mounting as I'm out of dry mounting tissue. Heavy papers such as Arches Platine and Lana Aquarelle do not need flattening, but Rising Stonehenge does.

rince · Feb 10, 2015

Andrew,

Thank you once again for answering my question.

Kindest regards
Dennis

Andrew O'Neill said:
Yes, you can dry mount them. I did it all the time. Recently I have been hinge mounting as I'm out of dry mounting tissue. Heavy papers such as Arches Platine and Lana Aquarelle do not need flattening, but Rising Stonehenge does.

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