photocopying

[paulz]

If you photocopy something then put it in one of those plastic wallets, over time the printing/pictures stick to the plastic. Short of laminating everything is there a way of actually 'fixing' the copied image? [to stop this happening] Does ironing it work?

[ipek]

Dunno about ironing, but I've just bought a load of A4 punch pockets to hold a copy of a manual, that (supposedly) don't lift the print off the paper surface. They probably do the same material in the ordinary wallets, too.

[rekstout]

Artists fixative spray would probably do the job (cheap can of hairspray will do the trick as well). That's the traditional method of "fixing" the surface of a piece of paper.