Glue For Mounting Photos on Magnets

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I used a glue stick to mount several photos printed with Canon ink on Canon
paper onto flat refrigerator magnets. The photos began to fade within
weeks. Other similar prints are doing fine right next to the faded ones.
I'm guessing the glue out-gasses or something.
Sound right?
What glue might work?
Thanks.
 
John said:
I used a glue stick to mount several photos printed with Canon ink on Canon
paper onto flat refrigerator magnets. The photos began to fade within
weeks. Other similar prints are doing fine right next to the faded ones.
I'm guessing the glue out-gasses or something.
Sound right?
What glue might work?
Thanks.
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I'm just wondering, out of interest, whether this might work. If you
were a brit you would be familiar with the annoying little artistic
toad Neil Buchanan (art attack). The little arsebiscuit is a lover of
PVA glue, uses it for just about everything. Problem there is of
course that it's very wet stuff, or I would have even suggested trying
to cover the image with it too. Apparently it dries transparent and
like rock.

Wetness is probably your biggest problem, so have you considered
double sided sticky tape?
 
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John Keiser said:
I used a glue stick to mount several photos printed with Canon ink on Canon
paper onto flat refrigerator magnets. The photos began to fade within
weeks. Other similar prints are doing fine right next to the faded ones.
I'm guessing the glue out-gasses or something.
Sound right?
What glue might work?
Thanks.
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You seem to have mounted a pin on your head.
 
John Keiser said:
I used a glue stick to mount several photos printed with Canon ink on Canon
paper onto flat refrigerator magnets. The photos began to fade within
weeks. Other similar prints are doing fine right next to the faded ones.
I'm guessing the glue out-gasses or something.
Sound right?
What glue might work?
Thanks.
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Hi.

In the UK it is called Blue Tack. Sticky Flexible Putty sort of stuff, that
is reusable. All the kids use it for sticking posters onto their room
walls. It can stick Photos without any discolouration.

Roy G.
 
John Keiser said:
I used a glue stick to mount several photos printed with Canon ink on Canon
paper onto flat refrigerator magnets. The photos began to fade within
weeks. Other similar prints are doing fine right next to the faded ones.
I'm guessing the glue out-gasses or something.
Sound right?
What glue might work?
Thanks.
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Are you saying that some inkjet prints made with Canon inks that were
mounted on a refrigerator with glue stick to hold them on a magnet faded
more other Canon ink prints which were also mounted on the refrigerator?
From what I've read, the two major causes of inkjet fading are UV and Ozone.
I believer that refrigerators generate ozone and could, therefore, be a
hostile environment for dye-based inkjet prints.
 
I used a glue stick to mount several photos printed with Canon ink on Canon
paper onto flat refrigerator magnets. The photos began to fade within
weeks. Other similar prints are doing fine right next to the faded ones.
I'm guessing the glue out-gasses or something.
Sound right?
What glue might work?
Thanks.
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3M makes a 'Magnet Tape' specifically for this, it claims to be acid
free and safe for photos. Xyron also makes one, but I don't remember
if the package said acid free. I would not use the 'regular' magnet
tape strips found in most craft sections. The 3M and Xyron one are far
thinner than standard magnet tape, thus not as magnetically strong.
Good for a refrigerator, not so great for a bumper sticker.

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Yes. Side by side. 2 prints were glued onto magnets. Others where held on
by magents on top.
Onot the gkued phots faded.
Same paper. Same ink.
 
Self adhesive label stock comes in various sizes for inkjets and laser
printers.
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I suggested CD/DVD label stock because it is designed
primarily for inkjets, as opposed to general purpose
label stock which might not have either the surface finish or
permanence.
Users wouldn't be happy if their CD/DVD labels faded in
a few months, and the CD/DVD stock is designed for
images.
 
Refrigerators don't make ozone, unless they have a bad relay in them
that's arcing or something like that.

The ozone connection is that older fridges used CFCs as the refrigerant
(it was also used in car air conditioners, and other cooling devices).
This gas, if it escaped into the atmosphere, rose into the lower
atmosphere and broke down and the chlorine molecules tended to cause
bonding with ozone, thus breaking down the ozone layer which is
responsible for protecting earth from excessive UV radiation.

Art
 
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Hi John,

Good question! I have used a gluestick to glue inkjet printouts to
various things, but never magnets. I haven't noticed fading with the
cards and pictures I made though.

Avery makes a brand of magnetic sheets for inkjets - maybe that would
work better? One does have to cut the shapes out of the magnet paper
though. I made a bunch back in 2000 with my old Lexmark Z32 (or Z24?).
They have faded slightly, but only because the fridge gets a lot of
sun. The ones on the non-sun side of the fridge are still colourful.

HTH,
Christine
 
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