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My big tube of prints arrived the other day, so I opened them very carefully, took a quick look, showed my mum, and put them very carefully away, so as to keep them safe till I got them back to Spain.
However....
Last night, my Mum had a few friends round for dinner, so she thought it would be good to get them out to show here friends. No real problem with that, but she ought to have asked. Then, she tried to put them away.
I have 16 prints done to 30"X20". I now have 12 with big creases, and 4 with small creases.
What do I do - she has offered to pay, but has no money. I can't afford to get them re-done at full price, and am well pi**ed off.
Mums are a total pain at times.
Hope your day is going better than mine..
 
:( Thats a bit annoying isn't it. I wonder if there is a way of getting the creases out? I know it sounds weird, but maybe putting a towel over the poster, then ironing it out.:shrug:
 
Put them between two pieces of plywood and put a heavy weight on them,
Leave them for a week or so and see what happens.

It used to work for me sticking small pictures between the pages of a book,
so use the plywood as a substitute for the book.
 
Aww noooo!!!! :(

Poor mom, I bet she feels dreadful and now you feel awful too because you know she cant afford to get them redone for you.

Ive tried a combination of both Matts & MK's idea.

The iron I have resorted to when Ive felt there was nothing to lose and it can help.

If you do try the iron, try a dummy run with another pic first.
Make sure it is a cool temp that the the surface is completely flat ... place a piece of plain paper over the pic first.
Im not too sure about the towel though... think you might get fibre patterns.
Good luck.
 
When you are wheeling her into the cheap 'home', the one with a yard instead of a garden and no board games.. just remind her of this incident. :D
 
InaGlo said:
Aww noooo!!!! :(

Poor mom, I bet she feels dreadful and now you feel awful too because you know she cant afford to get them redone for you.

Ive tried a combination of both Matts & MK's idea.

The iron I have resorted to when Ive felt there was nothing to lose and it can help.

If you do try the iron, try a dummy run with another pic first.
Make sure it is a cool temp that the the surface is completely flat ... place a piece of plain paper over the pic first.
Im not too sure about the towel though... think you might get fibre patterns.
Good luck.
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Yeah, you might need something a bit finer than a towel. I was just thinking that you wouldn't want to iron the poster directly as it could melt the dye or similar.
 
Reminds me of my mother and washing machines. I lost count of how many of my clothes she managed to shrink or dye a strange colour in the wash. I thought all that was behind me when I left home but last year I left a scarf at their house which she took upon herself to put in the washing machine. It is a wool scarf. I'm sure you can guess the rest.
 
The creases seem to have gone through the picture part of the paper (ie the ink stuff) so I doubt that they will iron out, though i will try - it'll be a first for me - ironing !!
I did get a 20% offer on my next order, but still, it's money that might have fed the kids, or gone towards my 70-200 fund..
inopoto - guess what I am doing this afternoon..
 
you could get them all mounted on board but might cost a fair few quid!
 
Raymond - the special offer over the weekend was £5 each - now, they are about £18 each, I think..
 
Will have cost £80 - at full price £208 I think

Hope the ironing or flattening thing works :( Parents hey! who needs them :p

EDIT - £13 at full price I think steve, unless I have ordered the wrong ones :p
 
It might not be practical but I know my local framing shop uses big sheets of glass to keep the bigger shots under and get them perfectly flat. I dont know how well it would take actual creases out though.

If you had to get all 16 redone then peak-imaging offer quite good discounts for bulk buying, you would get the 30" x 20" shots for £10.35 each. Still expensive though :(
 
an old technique and new way to use. dampen the back of photo with water, those 99p spray bottles with fine mist. use brown paper to protect photo face down & brown paper on back. I used newspaper lol. soft sand as weight(in bag) use your imagination. packs of lentils work just something heavyish. leave for few days. could cheat & try iron as well.

Its old technique used for flattening stamps. Dont over saturate back the idea is to make paper more plyable
 
Sorry to here about what happened.

I forgot to get mine in matt and now one of the posters has several lovely toddler fingerprints all over them!! :P
 
Try mounting them to a foam core board, being carfull when mounting you may get the creases down to a minimum.
 
oh dear....I bet your Mum feels awful and very embarassed! I can hear you now :eek:

I would have said to iron with some paper on the top, its how I get creases out of dress pattern pieces.

Let us know how you get on...
 
Hasn't PosterXXL got an offer on at the moment?

Carl.
 
Have you tried speaking to photobox Steve, they may well help you out?
 
CarlOgden said:
Hasn't PosterXXL got an offer on at the moment?

Carl.
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I think the PosterXXL special offer is for panoramas (90 x 30 cm = £7.99) - they seem to charge about the same as photobox for these 30X20" shots.
 
A quick scan of the internet reveals this I've never used the company but the price seems cheap :) true its not quite 30" x 20" but still fairly big
 
Don't be too hard on your mum mate.

She was obviously very proud of the shots that her son took. Even to the point of showing them to friends.

Don't make her feel guilty for that !!!!


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hypnotic - I know, I know - thats part of the problem..!
Still, we have sorted it out, but it was just so typical of her - a little too much wine and off she goes without thinking.
Seems to be part of the getting old business - she is going from being my Mum to being an old lady who needs to be guided, helped and looked after - it's kind of hard to loose the parent you looked up to and gain a dependant who needs you to look after her.
I have been through the prints again, and luckily the damaged ones are not the best, so am getting just a couple re-done, so she gets off lightly and alls sorted.
Don't suppose she'll do it again.
 
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