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Originally Posted by OrangeCrush
The best way to flatten prints is with a heated print press. Every framing shop has one. Get freindly with the owners/workers and they might just do it for free. Its not like it really costs them anything beyond the few minutes of time it takes them to do it. Or you can offer to pay them a couple bucks. It certainly wouldn't hurt to call a couple locations up and ask them how much they would charge to stick your print in the print press for a minute or two.
If your just going to do it yourself at home then you want to unroll it and put something on it that keeps it flat. The larger the print, the more difficult it gets as its hard finding something larger enough to put on top of the print to keep it flat. With an 18 x 24, I would just get 5 books and put one on each corner of the print and then one right in the middle.
If your going to be ordering a lot of these prints, and your not too keen on the idea of asking frame shops to use their print press, I would find a local company that sells sheets of plexiglass and buy 2 sheets that were 19x25. Those are perfect for helping to flatten out prints. Just buy a couple pieces of archival tissue or archival matt board to lay the print on and place over the front of the print, to help protect it, and stick it inbetween the 2 sheets of plexi until its flattened out. The best part about using plexi is the print is 100% protected while its being flattening out. Lots of people have animals so leaving a 18x24 print unrolled can be a dangerous proposition.
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First, I'd like to say that your comments have been very informative and are greatly appreciated OrangeCrush. Secondly, do you think there is any danger to letting a framer run it through their press?
I am not averse to doing it myself if it is safer - I have flattened prints before (mostly original one sheets) using the traditional "book" method but then those prints didn't cost me $100 and weren't very limited/signed. Also, what is the best way to actually "unroll" the prints before placing weights on it to flatten it out? For me this is the trickiest part and the larger the print the more unwieldy it is.
Keep up the good posts brother!
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Originally Posted by Drahmin
well that's disappointing news. This is my first time ordering a print from SS. Sideshow should at least ship them out in a flat cover cardboard box.
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I agree. Sideshow should at least give us the option for future prints to ship them flat. Regardless if the print arrives "undamaged", this whole DIY flattening business really just irks me considering the price point of these.
