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by Kyle McDougall on Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:46 pm
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I'm getting ready to print a large stock of images for an upcoming art show that I'm doing. Other then my framed/canvas work I'm going to be selling two sizes of images simply with a backing board and bag. No mat or frame.

The two sizes that I'm going to be printing are 8x12" and 12x18". I'm going to be signing my prints on the white border at the bottom right hand corner of the paper. I'm printing my 8x12's on 9.5x13" sheets and my 12x18's on 13x19" sheets. This leaves me with a 0.75/0.5" border around the 8x12" images and a 0.5" border around the 12x18" images. My concern is that by signing in the border underneath, if one of my customers did choose to leave the signature/border revealed when getting the image matted that there wouldn't be enough paper left under the signature to hinge mount the print to the mat properly.

My other option is to print the images slightly smaller, say around 7.5" x 11.6" and 11.6" x 17.5" thereby allowing for a bigger white border and sufficient room under the signature. I'm just wondering what everyone's experiences are and what has worked best. I just want to make sure that before I go ahead and print a large amount of stock that I'm happy with my decision and that it will be as convenient as possible.

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by Randy Mehoves on Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:07 pm
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If you prefer to sign in a white border I would suggest about 1/2 inch space below your signature, 1/4 inch so the signature doesn't look like it was crammed into the space and an additional 1/4 inch for matting to cover the print.
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by bretedge on Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:07 pm
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I'm w/ Randy on this one. I'd leave at least 3/4" total white space, perhaps even 1". This will allow enough space for your signature without it being too cramped and enough room below to easily mat and frame the image. I typically allow a 1" white border around all my prints. It's almost like a simple mat and I like the presentation.
 

by Royce Howland on Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:25 pm
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Agree with the others. I sign in the white margin as well, and typically leave 0.75" - 1" on all sides to provide flexibility in matting. Of course you can leave uneven margins, with the largest space on the side where you're signing and less space on the other sides. It gets a bit finicky depending on paper size and image aspect ratio...
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by Les Voorhis on Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:56 am
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I don't sign in the white edge but a couple of my clients do. What we do for them is leave a 1/2" white border on three sides and a a 3/4" white border on the bottom so that they have approx. 1/2" to sign and still have a 1/4" to be there to tuck under the mat. I think overall it would be better to have 1" at the bottom (my signature gets a little gawdy sometimes, maybe yours is neater) but I would not want to sacrifice image size for a little larger signature.

Signing the border or in the print is personal preference and this is not intended to debate the issue but whatever you do please be sure you sign in pen. I had a print brought into the frame shop where you could see that the buyer had tried to erase to artists signature and then screwed it up so wanted it matted and framed to hide the area where they tried to erase. I don't know if they wanted to sign themselves or what but I knew the artist and had them come in and resign the work so that when we rematted it it was signed. So, just be sure to sign in pen. :-)
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