Quick matboard question - Bainbridge 8304?

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cjmst3k

cjmst3k

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I'm just about to work on an order with blackcore mats and I wrote 8304... but I don't see the sample and 8314 looks good. Anyone with Bainbridge BC mats, can you tell me if there is an 8304? I'm thinking I mis-wrote that one.
 
the 8304 is an earthstone and the color is "Flint", the 8314 is an alphamat and the color is "Talc". The Talc is an off white and the flint is a grayish tone.

Dan
 
DanGray said:
the 8304 is an earthstone and the color is "Flint", the 8314 is an alphamat and the color is "Talc". The Talc is an off white and the flint is a grayish tone.

Dan
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Thanks for checking Dan! I'm wondering what happened to my sample now... hmm.

Both are blackcore, right?
 
Yes, both are black core. Chris, do you have a matboard specifier? If not, Bainbridge would probably send you one. Or if you're an LJ customer, you can look them up in their price list to determine the color and core.

Or you can just keep asking the grumblers. Makes us feel useful ;)
 
Bainbridge's numberical system allots the "83XX" number for black cores for easy reference.

I know Bainbridge is not printing any new specifiers this year, according to our sales rep. (My specifier looks like the cover of The X-Men Days of Future Past - Dead, Dead, Available only in White, Dead, et al.) You'll probably have better luck looking on their website, because they cleaned house on their matboards, because the specifier anyone has will be out-of-date.

Nielsen-Bainbridge Homepage
 
cjmst3k said:
Thanks for checking Dan! I'm wondering what happened to my sample now... hmm.

Both are blackcore, right?
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Sample missing, cut one out of the left over of the mat you just ordered! You'll have it sooner than order one.

Did you look where you keep your incoming artwork? If I can't find a mat it is usually in the drawer with the artwork! Or by the order counter under the corner sample that hasn't been put away yet.

8304 is the blackcore version of 8520 Only it looks nothing like it ;)
 
Bob Doyle said:
8304 is the blackcore version of 8520 Only it looks nothing like it ;)
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Yeah, it's funny how that works. It's that the black core absorbs light getting through the surface paper, instead of bouncing it back through like a white core would. Similarly, when I color-copy a two-side-printed item, I place a sheet of black paper behind it to avoid visibility of the reverse side image.
:cool: Rick
 
So should a layer of sizing on the surface make it whiter?

I prefer to use a 4 ply 8520 or 8519 and stick it to an alpha like 8644 (ebony?) or 8663 and cut as an 8 ply.
 
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