{"id":3989,"date":"2016-06-14T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bumblejax.com\/content\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2018-11-14T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T17:42:17","slug":"what-is-an-acrylic-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/what-is-an-acrylic-print\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is An Acrylic Print?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We see many people searching for and asking about “acrylic prints” and there is still quite a bit of confusion about the differences that each company provides. \u00a0An acrylic print is produced in one of two ways – either by printing directly to the acrylic<\/span><\/strong> OR by face mounting<\/strong><\/span>, where your photo gets printed to high grade photo paper and reverse mounted to the acrylic.<\/p>\n

The direct to acrylic printing option is what many of the large print houses do and it’s a much cheaper option since there is far less labor involved and it’s mostly machine produced. \u00a0Any company can get into the manufacturing of acrylic prints this way and many have. \u00a0They can churn out quite a few per hour this way.<\/p>\n

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Acrylic print closeup and annotated with components. Shown is 1\/4″ acrylic print with polished edge.<\/p><\/div>\n

The acrylic face mounting method (components shown at left) is how it was always done (starting in Europe with the Diasec process) before machines were used to try to replicate the look. \u00a0The acrylic face mounting method is far more laborious and difficult to achieve without imperfections. \u00a0So, why go through the difficult multi-step process of hand making acrylic prints using the face mounting method? \u00a0Simply put .. quality. \u00a0No machine produced acrylic print will match the vibrancy and quality of an acrylic face mount.<\/p>\n

To wrap it up, know which way your lab is producing the acrylic print. \u00a0Not all are created equal. \u00a0 As the ‘ol cliche goes .. you get what you pay for and that is certainly true with acrylic prints. \u00a0Here at Bumblejax, we pride ourselves on being one of just a small handful of labs in the US who\u00a0can create gallery quality acrylic face mounts and we’d love to produce one for you! \u00a0You can see more about our face mounted acrylic prints here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We see many people searching for and asking about “acrylic prints” and there is still quite a bit of confusion about the differences that each company provides. \u00a0An acrylic print is produced in one of two ways – either by printing directly to the acrylic OR by face mounting, where your photo gets printed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrylicplexi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}