Video: Pulling a Photographic Print From the Press

After two minutes, remove the fiber paper print from the press and let it cool somewhere to flatten. Learn to press photographic prints from a professional in this free photography video.

Video Transcript

So after your fiber based print has been in the press for two minutes, you're going to take the print out of the press. Very important also, to only do one print at a time. I've seen students of mine cheat and sometimes I've cheated a little bit too trying to do two at a time, three at a time. It's really not ever worth it when you're rushing stuff like that. Usually it ends up in some kind of disaster. So go slow and do them one at a time. Now when you pull this print out of the press, it's not going to be totally flat because what happens is, the fibers in your print are going to sort of, the moisture and the humidity is going to kick up back in these fibers and so your print is going to have a curl to it. What I do is, I just set my print down in a nice cool place, or on an archival century box, and the print over the next couple of hours will flatten down so it's perfectly flat, just like this fiber based print is. One spot I always try to look is on the back of my prints and anywhere around to make sure that there is nothing, I didn't get a divot, or there's no stain, or the didn't even, I've sometimes seen even little burns. So again, this is a final step and then storing your print is next.

Pulling a Photographic Print From the Press

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