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Paper Chase - Board Meetings - part 2 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Mike McNamee Published 01/04/2005

Most of the boards are existing inkjet media "converted" by bonding to a high-grade stock. Many are both museum grade on the surface and the backing board, thus creating an archival specification media. Boards are mainly 1.3 or 1.2mm in thickness so that they can be fed through the common inkjet printers. Feeding boards can be a little tricky because of the additional thickness, be sure that you check, before you purchase, that they will feed in your own machine. The Epson 2100, 4000, 7600 and 9600 printer all take 1.2mm, the R800 and the new R1800 do not.

Cost

The additional processing of boards naturally increases their cost over the paper equivalent. Price comparisons are difficult to make because of the difference in sizes, boxed quantities and so on. To overcome this we have assembled the table below and back-calculated the costs for an equivalent of a 16x 20. You will see variations according to make, supplier, quantity and trade discounts, but the overall message is that while you pay about an extra pound sterling for a media board, it will cost you an extra £1.50 to buy a backing board of similar archival quality and a similar amount for a window mount. You will also need glue to stick the lot together (which opens another can of worms about archival tacking of prints and mounts!). On this basis board inkjet media look like quite a good deal.

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