dry mounting

noun

1. the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.

Other Word Forms

• dry-mounted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of dry mounting¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

In addition to selling his father’s prints, Keenan Miller will offer custom matting, framing and dry mounting.

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Prints mounted with "Kodak Dry Mounting Tissue," no curling.

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Aside from the glue mountant, formula for which accompanies the paper, I know no preventive except to mount the prints while dry with the dry mounting tissue.

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I may mention, en passant, that I have found gum much more satisfactory as a mountant than starch paste in what is known as the "dry mounting" system.

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This plan looks, at first sight, like that recommended for albumen paper, and called "dry" mounting.

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