Hello there Poster Forum! Thank you for letting me join, looking forward to conversing with you! I'm a artist who creates both digital works as well as physical pieces but I have a love for posters too !
I already have a question for you guys and hope you can advise!
I've been commissioned to print one of my pieces of work on paper size of 2A0 which as I'm sure you all know is very striking, however the client wants the poster to be mounted onto a flat surface, whether that be a board of mdd or a sheet of aluminium. I have never done this before, nor do I know how such a task should be carried out professionally, do you guys have any tips and tricks? or does anyone know any poster/art print company's that can produce a detailed print on satin 180 gsm paper and then glue it to a sturdy flat board of wood or a metal panel.
I live in the south east of the United Kingdom.
any help would be appreciated massively ! Cheers dudes
Hi there, there are plenty of company doing C-print on aluminium (C-print is the technical term for photo paper), you will get all kind of quality, prices and services. If you really want the best top quality, then you need to source for a printer having a Epson Fine Art printer; to the best of my knowledge, this is the best, ink is guaranteed to last but it is costly; no sure if they have your size -
https://epson.com/pro-imaging-large-format-printersMake sure you have a high quality image of your art, because you will need.... but really really high quality (and enough RAM on your PC). If you don't have, then there is no need to go for that Epson printer.
As for the aluminium mounted, it is the trend. It was common in blue gallery selling fine art, they came with the term C-print on aluminium.
Pros
Flat surface, strong body, very neat!
Cons
Art is not protected (there is no glass no acrylic glass)
It is mounted, so it is there to stick for good.
I am not keen with any dry mounted and I think most of us, poster collectors or fine art, are totally against it
As Stefano, we prefer a float mounted with spacers in the frame, that is the artwork on a foam core (not to touch the board as board catches humidity) and spacer so that artwork don't touch the glass neither. Float mounted often results in the artwork having waves. Another framing method without glue is full bleed framing, the frame is made to size so that poster just sit in. Same, it does wave.
Anyway, this is not what your client wants, he want something neat, flat. So go for the mounted aluminium!!
Try to get few quotations from different printers, at different quality and send it to your client first so that he is aware of the price.
Ask him if he wants a front protection, that is an acrylic glass in front.