ARTIPLAQ™ custom plaq mounts prints permanently, using high quality DRYTAC brand adhesive and laminating films and a smooth wood substrate. The ARTIPLAQ™ process has been proven and perfected over a span of 45 years. Made in our workshop in Newburyport, MA using lumber industry by-products, and the best adhesive and laminating films available, ARTIPLAQ™ will protect your photographs, nautical charts, posters, prints, maps, awards, kids' art and more, for years to come.

Our product is an affordable alternative to custom framing. As long as you are using quality inks and paper, we are certain you will be very happy with the product. And for folks ARTIPLAQ™’ing newsprint and kid’s art, we are certain they’ll be happy with their plaqs for years to come too.

Most any print on any paper can be ARTIPLAQ™'d. Whatever you decide to plaq will be permanently bonded to the wooden substrate and sealed with a laminate film. The process cannot be reversed. Over-lamination of art work causes a slight reduction of color contrast. Close comparison, of an original print to one over-laminated with our matte "Artishield" film, reveals a slightly perceptible reduction in vibrancy, particularly with whites and pastel colors. Our “Artsheild” film has UV filters to prevent it from yellowing. Once your print is ARTIPLAQ™’d, it is sealed from the environment and protected from humidity, and other elements in the air that would otherwise fade, yellow or wrinkle it. Direct sunlight may still cause your ARTIPLAQ™’d print to fade over time. Low quality inks and papers, or incompatible inks and papers often result in premature fading. The over-laminate process cannot prevent that.