Re: Fixative for old BW prints

[Hans Klemmer <hansklemmer@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Gary,

I've not found a fixitive that won't yellow or degrade a silver print. Someone on the list suggested plexiglass and that would certainly work to protect the images. My personal suggestion is to digitise the negatives and reprint the photographs on a heavyweight, glossy paper on a wide format printer (as I'm sure you've got at your offices). This will give your customer a new and fairly easily replaced group of images for them to display and it will give your company a chance to generate a little bit of income or create some goodwill if you make the print for a good customer for free. 

Hans Klemmer

Instructor, Photo Department, College of DuPage

(currently in Belfast, Northern Ireland)

On 4 Aug 2011, at 20:57, Gary Lobdell wrote:

One of my county clients has an aerial photo mosaic that we produced for them in 1977.  It is 8 ft. x 8 ft. and made up of numerous wet processed black and white enlargements.  It was never laminated and now that they have moved it to a high traffic hallway, people cannot seem to look at it without touching it.  I suggested that they use an aerosol fixative on it, however, someone told me that those sprays may cause the prints to yellow.  Does anyone have any experience with a fixative on old prints?

 

Gary A. Lobdell, CP, PS | Senior Photogrammetrist           
The Sidwell Company 
675 Sidwell Court | St. Charles, Illinois 60174-3492 
Office: 630-549-1020 | Cell: 630-715-3390

www.sidwellco.com

 

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