Why do people have to linenback everything???
- Because some people think it looks better flat. And people like to show off their poster to others who might view and think yuck the folds make your poster look crap.
- Plus if the printers thought posters looked better with folds, modern posters would have the fold lines printed into the rolled posters!
- The whole other world of advertising posters, they are nearly all linen backed and I guess because they weren't issued folded, it must be people just liking the folds in the movie poster world.
- If you like the history and originality of folded posters, they are all (like pre 1980's) likely to progress with age having the brown foxing color progress substantially from all the folds lines making the poster colors ruined (and the poster brittle) and to avoid that, the poster can be linen-backed and de-acidified which over time will make those posters look more original than the once original folded poster that turned heavily foxed, cracked, dinged up, and which might end up resprayed ruining it more!!! Preservation, may be the lesser of two evils!