Subject: Storing acrylic silkscreens
I completed an edition of acrylic silkscreens a few months ago that used quite a bit of transparent medium. There are probably around ten coats of ink on each print. The edition was run on Arches 88 which is a silkscreen paper. The amount of ink made the prints look like plastic rather than ink on paper. The prints slightly stick to one another leaving a texture on the surface. Glassine became wrinkled when used as an interleaving and transferred the wrinkle pattern to the print's surface. I was told that there is a silicone paper that might work better but wanted to know if this is an acceptable method for storing prints and if one type of paper might work better than another. The print size is 30 x 16 inches. *** Conservation DistList Instance 21:19 Distributed: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Message Id: cdl-21-19-014 ***Received on Sunday, 5 August, 2007