Laminating a photograph was not always a great option because of how the laminate interactived with the inks on the paper. Today, these issues have been addressed with specific laminating pouches that help to actually preserve a photo through lamination.
So you took a lot of pictures at your daughters wedding and had them developed. They are now discolored, bent and not very usable.
Let's say you want to give a happy couple a wedding anniversary. You bring out pictures from their wedding to give them as a surprise, instead you find they are unpresentable.. Sadly, you are the one being surprised - the photos have discolored. Since the photos are not good enough, you are forced to get a last minute gift.
Lamination companies have had to adjust their formulas to accommodate the inks and technology being used to print digitally. Photos are especially prone to deteriorating when exposed to light, humidity and other environmental hazards..
The protection of photographs from everyday threats, such as coffee spills, dirt, water, fingerprints and normal wear and tear, is not a new or novel concept. The laminating solution has suffered as a viable solution to the problem of how to protect a photograph due to the inevitable problem of discoloration of the photo over time.
While laminating pouches for use with photographs have been available for some time now - effortlessly used with any number of readily available laminating machines - photo lamination has not been an effective way to preserve photos..
These traditional laminating pouches have suffered from one major shortcoming in the protection of photography, that weakness being the nature of the chemicals used in the laminating material itself. This leads to the discoloration of the photograph over time due to the incompatibility of the chemicals in the lamination material with the inks used in the printing of the photograph.
The advantage of the new technology is - while the photo itself may stay clean and in one piece, it will eventually end up discoloring. It will happen - that is a fact of life - no solution has been available.
Until now, that is.
Today's laminating pouches addresses the issues of picture discoloration. You can immediately preserve a picture by using new laminating pouches specifically and chemically designed for photo preservation..
That's the good news for photographers - amateur or professional; the even better news is that these pouches work in conjunction with existing laminating machines meaning - no new equipment is required. The pouches themselves come in varying thickness, depending on your requirements, and sizes designed to fit most standard photograph sizes.
They are totally compatible with the inks used in printing photographs resulting in no harm to the photo and can be used with prints from inkjet or laser printers as well as photo printers.
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