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Lamination - Protect Your Photos the Easy Way by Steve Colville
OK, so you bought the top-of-the-range digital camera and spent a few months practicing taking shots here and there. You got pretty good at it, and even began to show off the shots to your friends. Then you decided it would be a good idea to buy a printer so that you could make prints of your best photographs. You messed around with some image manipulation software and got some of the photographs to look real good. Then you printed up those really great looking shots and handed them round for people to take a good look... And that's when the trouble began.
It doesn't take much to make a digital print look really bad. Fingerprints, dirt, grease... you name it. Those prints really need some protection and one of the easiest and quickest ways-not to mention one of the cheapest-is to laminate those photographs to keep them looking top notch.
So what is lamination? Essentially it means covering your photographs with a layer of clear film. This protects the photograph while enabling it to be viewed as normal. The lamination can cover one side of the image-the important side-or can cover both.
The most basic thing to know about lamination is that there are essentially two types-hot and cold. Both can do a really good job of protecting your photographs, and the cost of a machine can come in at under $100 easily. Hot lamination uses heat to melt an adhesive which glues the clear sheet to the photograph. Cold lamination uses pressure to melt the adhesive-which is pressure-sensitive-and glues the sheet to the image.
A hot laminating machine needs an electrical power supply to heat the adhesive and operate the rollers which press the laminate down. A cold laminating machine usually uses hand power. A handle is turned which applies the pressure and moves the photograph through the machine. In both cases the laminating film can be a roll type, which needs to be cut to size to fit the image. However, an easier method of laminating is to use a pouch. These come in standard sizes, and all that is needed to be done is for the photograph to be slipped inside the pouch, and for the pouch to be slipped into the machine. Within a matter of minutes you have a perfectly laminated photograph, protected from dirty fingers, grease marks... even from the effects of having liquids spilt over it.
With laminating equipment now so easily and cheaply available, there's no need to let your photographs suffer. Check out what laminating a photograph can do-you won't be disappointed with the results, and you won't have to keep on reprinting new photographs to replace the one that have been damaged.
About the Author
Steve Colville writes for laminationworks.com, a website packed with information on document lamination (http://www.laminationworks.com) and photograph lamination (http://www.laminationworks.com/photo-lamination.html)
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