Mounting photos on wood or masonite

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Permalink Reply by Jim Parker on September 19, 2011 at 10:05am

You could try Breathing Color's Glamour II or Timeless varnish, both as a protective coating and as an adhesive. Or you can have the photos laminated professionally at a lab. 

Coda Mount sells a product that is cold-mount, but it incorporates the backing substrate.

Talas sells many different adhesives, including dry-mount in rolls (Gudy), and roll-on adhesives.

Masonite is not archival, if that matters to you. Using Glamour II will provide a barrier between the substrate and the back of the print, as will Gudy.

 

HTH.

 

Jim

Permalink Reply by Bruce C. Sdunek on November 2, 2011 at 7:53pm

Hello, I just joined this group.  I do photography also.

I use 3M Photo Mount Spray Adhesive to mount prints on various substrates. While my prints are done in the darkroom, I often use RC paper, which is a plastic coated paper.  I would think digital/ink jet prints would mount just as well.

As Jim says, you want to be sure you use an archival material.  Masonite is very subject to swelling and shrinking with humidity changes, which can cause your print to pull and wrinkle.

Permalink Reply by Jim Parker on November 2, 2011 at 8:06pm

Spray Mount is not particularly archival, either. Prints mounted with it have a tendency to bubble over time, and the adhesive hardens, making it nigh to impossible to remove the print from the backing.