Adhesive backboards for prints

[Sheila Smart]

Can someone point me in the direction of where I can obtain adhesive backboards for large prints? Up until now, my husband cuts out A3 heavy cardboard and I spray them with Photo Mount spray. I spoke to a photographer at a market awhile back and he said he uses adhesive backboards which, although a tad more expensive, is a lot easier than the spray and mount method. He also said that the spray was not a good idea if one breathed it in - I have always done it outside on calm days!

Any ideas where, hopefully in Sydney, I can find these. I need both A3 and 11 x 17 sizes.

Cheers
Sheila

[gstark]

Sheila,

I'm thinking simewhere like Baltronics perhaps?

IAE, there will certainly be some on display at Photo Imaging World, and we're holding a minimeet in conjunction with that event, on Saturday April 29, with dinner afterwards at Chinatown.

Why not check out the separate thread for that and join us there?

[myarhidia]

Hi Sheila
give Rodney a call at The Laminating Experts 9899 5515, he's in Castle Hill. I know he does the block mounting (5,10,20mm on fomecore etc) however don't know if he sells the materials for DIY.

John

[Sheila Smart]

Sheila,

I'm thinking simewhere like Baltronics perhaps?

IAE, there will certainly be some on display at Photo Imaging World, and we're holding a minimeet in conjunction with that event, on Saturday April 29, with dinner afterwards at Chinatown.

Why not check out the separate thread for that and join us there?

Thanks Gary, I may just do that! I went to the show at Darling Harbour the year before last and I was surprised that Adobe did not have a presence nor were there any monitors on display. I did have a few words to the framing folk on display and suggested that more A3 frames should be produced as we had gone metric 30 years ago. I pointed them in the direction of the photographers gathering around the Canon and Epson printers and suggested they might lose their market. It didn't seem to have dawned on them that A3 prints might get popular! Although my prints are mainly A3, Ilford USA sent me 150 sheets of 11 x 17 as a prize for winning the Black and White Spider Awards - hence the reason I am looking for that size backboard (rather than metric).

Cheers
Sheila

[gstark]

Cool. It'll be great to meet you.

Ilford USA sent me 150 sheets of 11 x 17 as a prize for winning the Black and White Spider Awards - hence the reason I am looking for that size backboard (rather than metric).

One other suggestion, with the mention of foam core board, is the use of double-sided adhesive sheets.

I used to use these in days gone by. They're just like huge pieces of double sided tape, but on something more akin to a large sheet of greaseproof paper.

Obviously, and as for using the spray adhesive, a wind free, dust free workarea is essential.

Supply would come from pretty much the same people who supply the spray adhesive or adhesive boards.

[mikephotog]

That self adhesive is called....Jac Paper...after the company that makes it.
Here in Melbourne I buy foam core with Jac paper already adhered from Dean's Art.

[Sheila Smart]

Thanks all. I'll start Googling.

Cheers
Sheila