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Backer boards for prints?

Hello, friends :)

I am searching for a stock that is sturdy and preferably acid-free to use for backer boards with bagged prints. Can anybody recommend something ECONOMICAL and/or a supplier that doesn’t require huge amounts? Parent sheets or precut would work. I’m starting out with 8x10s and will probably add a bigger size later.

Do those of you that package prints in this way usually use acid-free boards? That is my instinct of course but is that common practice?

Thank you all so much!

Cheers,
Carrie Valenzuela
Syracuse, NY - so glad the heat wave over here has broken!

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Hi Carrie!
I use the cheapo backing boards from Clearbags.com, mostly because I also order my bags from there. Their economy ones are not acid free as far as I know but they do also offer pre-cut Bainbridge and other boards that are. I don’t expect people to leave them in the bags indefinitely (although I’m sure some do. ) for my more pricy fine art prints I use photo corners on a larger board, for the smaller posters I use the same size as the print.

cheap card but sprayed with a silicone spray? or cheap card with acid free tissue facing? Offer to mount with acid free mount board?

Thanks very much, Val and Jonathan! I had another idea too. I could check at a local frame shop and see if they’ll sell or give me their scrap pieces on the cheap.

  • Zwack
  • on 3 Oct 17 (00:06)

Some frame shops will sell stacks of the middle cut out from frame jobs. These aren’t much use to them so they will sell a stack of mat board for not too much money. They are usually bevelled edges, but that isn’t a big deal.