• Welcome to Photrio!
    Registration is fast and free. Join today to unlock search, see fewer ads, and access all forum features.
    Click here to sign up

Preferred matboard for warmtone prints?

Recent Classifieds

Forum statistics

Threads
201,089
Messages
2,818,924
Members
100,519
Latest member
Rolleifan83
Recent bookmarks
0

MurrayMinchin

Membership Council
Subscriber
Allowing Ads
Joined
Jan 9, 2005
Messages
5,562
Location
North Coast BC Canada
Format
Hybrid
Hi there,

My go-to for selenium toned Ilford MGFB paper has been White Rising Museum Board, but find the warm whites of the paper I'm now using get overpowered and seem dull with this mat board.

I'm leaning towards Medium Grey Rising Museum Board. What matboard do you use, or have you seen used successfully, with warmtone prints?

100% cotton preferred.
 

Vaughn

Subscriber
Allowing Ads
Joined
Dec 13, 2006
Messages
10,273
Location
Humboldt Co.
Format
Large Format
There was a 'Natural White" that Light Impressions had that I liked with warm prints. Just a touch of warmth to it -- the antique whites tend to be too warm. Have not seen anything quite like it for awhile.

I tried gray mats decades ago...did not like them.
 
OP
OP
MurrayMinchin

MurrayMinchin

Membership Council
Subscriber
Allowing Ads
Joined
Jan 9, 2005
Messages
5,562
Location
North Coast BC Canada
Format
Hybrid
There was a 'Natural White" that Light Impressions had that I liked with warm prints. Just a touch of warmth to it -- the antique whites tend to be too warm. Have not seen anything quite like it for awhile.

I tried gray mats decades ago...did not like them.
Thanks for that.

Rising has an Olde White that might work....if it's a bit lower value than the 'pure white' I'm getting in the prints. Also haven't platinum toned any yet to compare with the palladium toned prints I've made, so there will be print/mat colouration relationship as well.

Hopefully a few people will chime in with their choices; then I'll order samples to compare.
 
Last edited:

Vaughn

Subscriber
Allowing Ads
Joined
Dec 13, 2006
Messages
10,273
Location
Humboldt Co.
Format
Large Format
Good luck. I prefer 8-ply, so the choices tend to be less.
 
Photrio.com contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.
To read our full affiliate disclosure statement please click Here.

PHOTRIO PARTNERS EQUALLY FUNDING OUR COMMUNITY:



Ilford ADOX Freestyle Photographic Stearman Press Weldon Color Lab Blue Moon Camera & Machine
Top Bottom