Successfully Matting and Bagging Prints
For gifts for the holidays, I have started to have some photographs printed so that I could mat and bag them. I first came upon the Redimat site in a JPG Magazine article that detailed the supplies and the steps needed to mat and bag your own prints. As you may have seen in a previous blog entry, I was a little unaware of proper image sizing for printing the images that I wanted to mount. Fortunately I got it all figured out and was able to get back on track.
After the experience that I have gained in the process, I would not recommend getting the Redimat unless you know that you want you photographs cropped to fit the dimensions that they have available. What may be difficult about ordering ala carte the items you need is that all the online stores that I found had a minimum spending limit that had to be reached in order to avoid a “small order charge”. When shopping at Documounts, I realized that I could order other sizes of mats and backs that would get me to their minimum and to get something extra for the money that they were going to charge me anyways. In my case, I purchased a set of mats and backs for 5″x7″ prints. What I did not get were bags for this size. What can I say? Sometimes I am a little slow.
Here are is what the final products look like …
