[LargeFormat] Mounting Large Prints

[tripspud]

Hi Curt and Les!

      I've just invested in a Seal drypress and tacking iron.  The 150
Seal has a platen size of 15 1/2 by 18 1/2 inches.  However, much larger
prints can be easily handled in section, so prints on mounts as wide
as 40 inches and any length can be handled.  Of course, for mounting
a large number of large prints, a larger press would be better.

     However, even for small prints, which I'm setting up to do, have
a better chance when drymounted, IMO.  For example, I've got most
of the materials to begin my 5x7 project.  I've given up on cuttting that
Panatomic-X aerial film to 5x7 and I'm waiting 75 sheets of Bergger
film to arrive.

     Printing these on Azo, a single weight paper, almost demands drymounting.

Cheers,

Rich Lahrson
Berkeley, California
tripspud@transbay.net


> Don't feel embarrassed about drymounting, Les.  I predict that we're in an
> anti-drymounting "phase" right now.  I have seen so many phases and tastes
> come and go in the 40 or so years I've been into the medium (remember the
> "Pseudo-Sabbatier effect that ran concurrent with the Nehru jacket back in
> '68?).  I spent this afternoon with one of my buddies who's one of the best
> professional architectural photographers in the world.  We had exchanged 5x7
> contact prints for Christmas and he had already drymounted mine and readied
> it for my signature.  Everything in his house is drymounted - I believe
> including his Weston's.  We talk about it from time-to-time but fail to
> understand the concerns about drymounting.  I really think there are many
> more negatives to not drymounting than to doing it (and I have a wall full
> of warped prints from my "don't drymount phase" that I now need to
> drymount).
> Don't feel guilt.  Resolve to drymount in the New Year!
> Curt
>
> Les Newcomer wrote:
>  I'm somewhat embarrassed to say I do own a drymount press now. It was one
> > of my "Charlie Brown" purchases-- I bought it because I felt sorry for it
> > and it needed me. (those of you outside of the US that hasn't seen "A
> > Charlie Brown Christmas" can just ignore this blathering.