Sonography is the use of an ultrasound tool for diagnostic purposes.
Can you laminate sonogram pictures.
Also you shouldn t laminate the actual ultrasound.
If you want to preserve a picture that might be handled quite a bit or exposed to liquids laminating it can be a great way to protect the image without compromising the quality of your photo.
If you have a pouch laminator with a cold setting you can definitely use it to process your photographs.
If you re planning on laminating baby scans stop.
To laminate your photos turn on the laminator and select the cold setting.
I actually tried to do copies.
Buy a pack of self laminating pages from an office store big box store or online.
My mom needs copies of them to display at my baby shower this weekend.
We used hot machines and those were on the list of stuff we weren t allowed to laminate.
It s best to keep ultrasound pictures out of heat of any sort to preserve it for as long as possible.
If you laminate your photos using heat the heat will ruin them because the pictures are often printed on thermal paper.
Have any of you made copies successfully.
These are heatless and won t ruin the photos.
I have read a few things that said not to laminate ultrasound photos because the heat will turn them black.
Re how best to preserve ultrasound pictures anonymous i have not tried laminating it but since the image is formed through a process of heating the paper i think i think the heat from lamination would ruin the image.
Photo paper comes in both matte and glossy finishes and can give the pictures you print out at home a professional look.
I ve also read to be careful making copies on a copier.
You will need to use the cold setting because heat can damage the photos especially if they were printed on an ink jet printer.
In short an ultrasound is the process while a sonogram is the end.
Do not laminate ultrasound pictures.
If it is a heat acivated laminator it can actually screw up the image at least on some types of paper they use for the ultrasounds.
Laminate the ultrasound photos using a heatless laminate to protect them.
You should copy it with a flatbed scanner at home or somewhere like walmart.
I worked at a copy shop and laminated things all the time.
A sonogram is the picture that the ultrasound generates.