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12/26/2004 07:37:03 PM · #1 |
looking for a good place to find bulk supply of cheap matteboard. Anyone know where I can look?
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12/26/2004 07:52:48 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by jmlelii:
looking for a good place to find bulk supply of cheap matteboard. Anyone know where I can look? |
Art stores will sometimes give student discounts during the beginning of the semester. If you know someone that is a student you can have them buy it for you.
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12/26/2004 07:54:15 PM · #3 |
| Some frame shops sell the middle part of a mat for real cheap. If the size is larger then what you are looking then it may be a good purchase. |
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12/26/2004 07:54:36 PM · #4 |
| I think your best bet is to talk to local craft stores that do custom framing. They may give you a deal on full cases. (usually 25 sheets of one color) You may find it lower priced somewhere else around the country, but the frieght will eat up any savings. |
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12/26/2004 08:00:58 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by jmlelii:
looking for a good place to find bulk supply of cheap matteboard. Anyone know where I can look? |
I would suggest Light Impressions for matboard, but they are more about quality, archival supplies than lowest price. Whatever you do, be sure you consider the fact that low quality matboard can cause your prints or whatever you mount/mat with it to deteriorate/age MUCH faster (i.e. months or weeks vs years or decades).
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12/26/2004 09:42:23 PM · #6 |
woops! Sorry, I did mean high quality, but at good bulk prices. I always manage to word this stuff wrong!
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12/26/2004 09:49:19 PM · #7 |
Pearl Art has the best prices I've ever found on good mat board, as well as foam core,and there's one right in Philly. If you have a student ID, so much the better. I buy most of my art supplies for airbrush, decorative painting, matting and framing there. (Actually, pretty much everything else too.)
I happen to be going to the one here in Alexandria, VA tomorrow for painting supplies, and mats and frames - I love my shopping expeditions to Pearl. |
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12/26/2004 09:56:37 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by lhall:
Pearl Art has the best prices I've ever found on good mat board, as well as foam core,and there's one right in Philly. If you have a student ID, so much the better. I buy most of my art supplies for airbrush, decorative painting, matting and framing there. (Actually, pretty much everything else too.)
I happen to be going to the one here in Alexandria, VA tomorrow for painting supplies, and mats and frames - I love my shopping expeditions to Pearl. |
I am looking for uncut as I want to cut my own though.
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12/26/2004 10:01:04 PM · #9 |
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Message edited by author 2004-12-26 22:01:22.
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12/26/2004 10:03:33 PM · #10 |
| It is uncut, or at least in the way I think you mean. I buy all my mat board there, not mats. I buy it in, I think it's 36" x 40" full size sheets. I can't remember right now the exact size, but they are LARGE! I'll know tomorrow, 'cause I am buying some. |
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12/29/2004 05:42:56 PM · #11 |
| i think that that stuff is EVIL!!! i spent 60£ about 80 dollars and I messed ALL of it up!!!!! just get a good cutter!!!! that is all i am saying DON'T GET A CHEAP CUTTER!!!!! |
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