You must go to UWM. It is dry mount heaven there. I went to ASU for my Master's and couldn't believe that no one ever dry mounted their drawings. I used to use photo mount or super 77. Never had a problem with bleeding through. Probably would want to do a test.

The trick is to line up the drawing with what ever you are mounting it to and then put binder clips along one edge holding the paper and the substrate in alignment while you lift up the paper and spray everything. Use a paint booth if you have one. Note that as you spray you will get glue on what ever your substrate is resting on (floor, table, classmate).

While it is a good presentation skill to know, I would wonder if in school you should be defaulting to a typical presentation methodology?

I thought everyone dry mounted stuff, of course I'm in a little SARUP bubble so who knows. Anyway, our prof gave us an InDesign template for our final presentations, so everyone's will look the same. I've always done my own layouts before, but its nice not to have to worry about board design for once. He also gave a description on how to mount the boards with dry mount, but the school only got the new color plotter over the summer, and he was pretty busy with the Solar Decathlon project, so I'm sure he doesn't know we can't dry mount.

So I'm just trying to figure out something similar.

Of course I would have been much happier saving myself the $75 in printing costs and just thrown the digital files up on a projector but...

The school has outlawed using spray cans at the school, so I'll have to test it out in the basement of my apartment building.

Why do we have to get 10" of snow right before a final crit? I'm gonna have to wrap my boards in garbage bags if I mount them at home. I bet its warm at ASU right now...spoiled brats. Ha!