Print protection / photo sleeves / archiving supplies

rymus

Going by many names, what I'm after are the thin plastic sleeves you can slip prints into to protect them from grubby fingers. I found an inexpensive source for them ($70 for 500) in the US, but the guy wants to charge me $113 for UPS delivery. Tried a few local camera shops & stationers to no avail.

Does anyone here buy them or know where I can get them?

elven

Is it the sheets within the ring-binder idea you're after, like this kind of stuff: http://www.pfile.com/album/index.html

Jessops do some of that - but only in the big store on sauchiehall street in glasgow But you can see the various products and prices (in £, sorry) on the website if you follow the menus thus: Home > Accessories > Enthusiast Products > Storage/Mounting > Storage Pages and Binders but there aren't many actual product images. It is all archival quality though.

The other thing to consider is scrapbooking supplies - although they are usually square format (8x8 or 12x12"), there may be some sleeves that you could use in a ringbinder - they are all acid free archival quality too. But I haven't sussed where to find decent craft supply shops here either

rymus

Its not the ringbinger stuff I'm after, just like the sheets you can put in boxes...

Redundo

I've used the sleeves from 7dayshop for storing both prints and negatives. Instead of a ringbinder I bought an art portfolio case to keep the sleeves tucked away, nice and safe. You should be able to stack the ringbinder stuff in boxes just as easily.

The sleeves are pretty cheap and supposedly archival quality, though i've only been using them for a few months.