Laminating Prints

Laminating work well.
Every year our photo workshop exhibits at the Tendring Hundred show. Doing this the prints have to be put up the night before, and left in an unheated tent. Before laminating the prints used to curl up. Now we laminate them & they look good. After the show I've used some of my prints as place mats, and they've not suffered even then.
My wife has put up in the kitchen a trimmed copy, of one of the prints where the printer messed up, Within a few weeks parts of the ink where running.

I'm not saying a laminated print looks as good as a properly mounted print, but in poor conditions it lasts much better than anything less than a top notch frame.

I suppose there is no intention of expecting a lifetime guarantee so I would go for it.

I still have an 'ID' card from some 10 years or more ago which is laminated and unlike me hasn't gone grey. Come to think of it my passport pic is also laminated and has also lasted a fair while.

Both of these were done, I assume, as cheaply as possible so little or no consideration for longevity.

regards
Bernard