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If you own a photographic printer with roll paper capability you understand the convenience and cost savings that using rolls offers. But, as with most things in life, there's also a dark side. In the case of roll paper it's curl, the enemy of printers as much as dust is of digital cameras.
When roll paper is near the end of a roll, or when it has started to dry out from being out of the plastic protective bag which it came in from the factory, it starts to curl, and the closer you are to the end of the roll, and the drier the atmosphere over time, the tighter the curl will be. This makes using these prints highly problematic, especially in a fine art environment where the esthetics of the print itself asobjet d'artare critical. Even trying to matte a heavily curled print can be a serious challenge, and can lead to prints pulling away from their backing board and touching the glass or acrylic pane in the frame. Not a pretty sight.
But there is a solution, a very simple and elegant on...

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