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Post by mikedx on Feb 24, 2006 20:19:19 GMT 1
Hey gang,
What do you use as backing boards for your 8x10 photos through the mail? I know I can get some old cardboard boxes and cut them down, but I'd rather get something already the right size.
What do you use?
Mike
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Post by atheon on Feb 24, 2006 21:16:32 GMT 1
I get them through a friend of mine who works at a postal distribution center. Many companies use a standard size backboard to support bundles of magazines or whatever. They are the perfect size, they are very strong, they come in large numbers and best of all: free.  |
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Post by imaniac on Feb 24, 2006 21:32:25 GMT 1
It depends, sometimes I buy these plastic maps that they sell at movie fairs. The come in 8x10s, 11x14s etc. They're also good for displaying.
Other times I simply send it in a heavy enveloppe, either padded or cardboard.
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Post by atheon on Feb 24, 2006 21:36:07 GMT 1
You mean top loaders, right?
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Post by robertderidder on Feb 24, 2006 22:02:18 GMT 1
I use carboard backed envelopes.
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Post by Indiana Dirk on Feb 24, 2006 22:44:12 GMT 1
I use carboard backed envelopes. yeah these are very handy and cheap 55 € ct |
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Post by marko on Feb 24, 2006 23:44:15 GMT 1
I use toploaders and cardboard.
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Post by starbuck on Feb 25, 2006 9:44:21 GMT 1
I know I can get some old cardboard boxes and cut them down What do you use? Mike That's exactly what I use  |
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Post by starbuck on Feb 25, 2006 9:51:41 GMT 1
I use toploaders and cardboard. I used to use toploaders too for a while, but don't mind me saying: Those things are terrible, your photo always sticks to the plastic and when people try to get them out they ruin your photo by creasing it or leaving finger nail marks. So I trew all the remaning toploaders in the trash ;D |
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Post by MAD on Mar 5, 2006 21:37:36 GMT 1
We have really strong 2mm grey cardboard at work. They're A1 size panels, but in about ten minutes you have 10 nice 8x10 cardboards. I put these in soft toploaders together with my photo. The soft toploaders don't stick and it keeps the card and photo together without creasing. Photos are very easy to remove and put back. I reuse all cardboard from my returns (sometime when you're lucky even the envelope when they forgot to stamp it!  ) |
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Post by robertderidder on Mar 5, 2006 21:46:46 GMT 1
But that cardboard is quite heavy, isn't it?
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Post by ThinWhiteDuke on Mar 5, 2006 22:12:27 GMT 1
But that cardboard is quite heavy, isn't it? Photo + double cardboard + SASE + letter + envelope you send everything in... weighs +- 120 grams I think |
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Post by robertderidder on Mar 5, 2006 23:01:38 GMT 1
Wooh, that's heavy. Sending outside of Europe, that would be twice as expensive as under 100g.
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