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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: huguito on February 27, 2014, 09:54:18 am
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I have few panels that i would like to mount canvases to and have no idea if they are or not made of materials that may compromise a print after a while.
Is there anything like a paint or a lacquer I could use to cover those panels and protect the print in the long run?
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It's hard to suggest if you don't know what the panels are made from!
Coating it with Breathing Colour's Glamour II or Timeless could work.
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The panels I am talking about are Plywood panels.
I could be very very wrong, what I was thinking, is that a couple of coats of oil based paint would stop most contaminants to reach the canvas mounted on the panel.
Hugo
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Acrylic Gesso would be a better option!
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I have some souvenirs from an old exhibit, paper prints mounted to Masonite with Elmer's White Glue, which Miracle Muck's little sister. Still lookin' good after 40 years. Masonite is a textbook of non-archival materials: formaldehyde and lots of stuff I can't even spell. No matter, that barrier of dried glue has saved the day. The only thing wrong with those pieces is physical abuse from too many changes of venue. A few of those were actually attached with wallpaper glue, and they're OK too.
Where there is no molecular motility, chemistry grinds a near halt. Lock those molecules down and they can't misbehave. Which is why I would stay far away from the oil based stuff.