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Face-Mounted Prints

Prints are face-mounted behind an acrylic glass, usually Plexiglas. This acrylic glass mounting technique involves a permanent smooth fusion of the paper print to the acrylic glass. Using a special adhesive, an airtight bond is created with no air bubbles, which fixes the print's front side to the UV-resistant acrylic glass. By directly bonding the front side of the photograph to the acrylic glass, light reflections usually occurring when a photograph is framed with a passe-partout and ordinary glass, are completely eliminated. With this unique method the diffusion of light diminishes because of the homogenous quality of acrylic glass, and as a result the image has much more depth with sharper and more intense and brilliant colors. This technique has only recently gained wide acceptance among museums and art galleries. This is true, mainly because it seems to add a third dimension to the two-dimensional image and provides a brilliance and intensity unobtainable by any other standard framing technique. The assembly of acrylic glass, print and protective back layer is attached to a recessed wood frame (also available in aluminium), which serves as a spacer between picture and wall. This gives the impression that the photograph is floating in the air. Prints can be ordered with 1/8" or 1/4" thick acrylic glass. Thicker acrylic glass is obviously heavier and therefore more expensive to ship but it does give the print more depth. Face mounting behind acrylic glass is by far the most impressive and spectacular way of presenting a photograph and it's virtually no more expensive than conventional framing.