Have you ever dumped a cup of coffee onto your finished professional
artist portfolio, or accidentally spilt water onto your finalized
watercolor painting? Well trust me, you are not the first, nor will you
be the last! There are many ways that all of your precious artwork,
designs, portfolios, and photographs can be ruined accidentally. This
no longer has to be the case! For years, professional artists have been
laminating their end products for safety and longevity. Here are some
top reasons for using lamination to protect your creative craftsmanship.
Have you ever dumped a cup of coffee onto your
finished professional artist portfolio, or accidentally spilt water
onto your finalized watercolor painting? Well trust me, you are not the
first, nor will you be the last! There are many ways that all of your
precious artwork, designs, portfolios, and photographs can be ruined
accidentally. This no longer has to be the case! For years,
professional artists have been laminating their end products for safety
and longevity. Here are some top reasons for using lamination to
protect your creative craftsmanship.
Laminated art pieces last longer:
There is no doubt that a laminated piece of artwork can withstand the
test of time by adding countless years to your favorite pieces. Proper
laminating can prevent fading from sunlight or other bright lights,
destructive Ultra-Violet rays, fingerprints and smudging from simple
handling, pollutants, and even the vapors from smoke, cleaning
solutions, and other harmful atmospheric elements. If you truly care
about a piece of artwork, and choose not to frame it, the only real way
to ensure its safety is to laminate the prized image.
Laminating is cheaper: Sometimes the sheer cost of framing a
favorite piece of artwork to hang on your wall can be very daunting. So
why not simply laminate it for less than half of the cost? Laminating
your favorite works will allow you to have more prized works hanging
protected on your wall than only one or two framed pieces for the same
cost.
Laminating is quick: Sometimes framing can not only be
expensive, but it can take a lot longer to frame than to simply
laminate and trim, especially if you have to send your artwork off to
some distant place to be professionally framed, which, in most cases,
takes days, if not weeks, to get back to you. Instead, why not settle
for laminating your works and beautify your home in a few short hours
instead?
Laminating provides a solid, professional look to your portfolio:
If you are an artist who is looking for a gallery show, a prospective
job, or a more professional portfolio, laminating can help you achieve
that professional look and feel needed to land you the floor space or
that dream job. A portfolio is the single most important tool for any
artist in any situation, and having yours laminated shows that you care
about your artwork as much as you do about how you present yourself.
Set yourself above the rest with the quick, cheap, and easy style of
laminating.
These are only a few of the wide variety
of reasons an artist should choose to laminate their artwork. Two
things to keep in mind: first, be sure to use cold lamination when
working with precious artwork as heat laminators can damage if not
utterly destroy your prized works. Second, lamination is permanent as
it literally sticks to both sides of the finalized piece of art. So,
next time you are thinking about spending a few hundred or thousand
dollars to frame your artwork, look into lamination.
Jeff McRitchie is the director of Marketing for MyBinding.com. He has
written more than five hundred articles on topics related to binding
machines, binding supplies, presentation covers, ring binders, index
tabs, laminators, laminating pouches, roll film, shredders and paper
handling equipment. If you have any questions about Choosing A Laminator or need Laminating Pouches check out MyBinding.com.
