Contempo Albums

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The Contempo (formally know as "Matrix") is a mid-range "matted" album. A ‘hybrid” album in that it enables you to design both matted pages and edge to edge mounted prints within the same album.

 

Each page is custom designed to suit your images. Each image is mounted behind a precision cut aperture built into the page.

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Contempo Promo Video

Contempo With iMMIX Feature Page
Contempo With iMMIX Feature Page
Hand Bound for Durability
Hand Bound for Durability

Linen Embossed Pages - White 
Linen Embossed Pages - White 
Bevel Cut - Two Tone Print Apertures
Bevel Cut - Two Tone Print Apertures

       Product Information

Page Papers

Albums Australia offers our matted albums in both a professional black and white ph-neutral and acid free high quality papers. Produced in the UK, exclusively for us from a proprietary manufacturing process. The paper is imprinted with a delicate linen texture before being finished with a light protective coating that ensures the easy removal of grease and dirt.

Aperture Cutting Style

Contempo albums are available in your choice of either Straight Cut apertures or bevel cut ‘Duplex’ mats (a composite paper stock made of black and white - pH neutral linen textured paper. Both are made to very high environmental standards in England. Each page of a Contempo comes fully assembled with the correct mat already mounted onto the page side that you designed it for.

Straight Cut Aperture
Straight Cut Aperture
Bevel Cut Aperture
Bevel Cut Aperture

Creased or Cut Prints For

Facing Page Spreads

All double page panorama pages will come cut as the default option unless you specify otherwise in the TDA settings. Note: Our product warranty does not cover print damage caused by prints being creased across the spine.

       Cover Materials

 

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Natural Grain Leathers

Matte Black
Matte Black
Chocolate
Chocolate
Navy Blue
Navy Blue
Post Box Red
Post Box Red
Vanilla
Vanilla

Natural Grain Leathers are cut from the finest upholstery grade skins available in Australia. Natural Grain means that the texture of the hide is natural, rich and full bodied. The ‘imperfect’ pattern of the hides prove that they are the real thing. They look, smell and feel of quality and character.

Distressed Leathers

Mocca
Mocca
Stone
Stone
Black
Black

As its name implies, ‘distressed’ leathers are anything but consistent.

They are trendy and highly fashionable with many visible and distinct aberrations that give them their unique character and desirability. These characteristics appeal to a trendy - young market!

 

Special Considerations:

Product displays different levels of distress from hide to hide which is part of the nature of this material. Returns related to the high or low degree or the placement of distressed areas of the leather are not accepted under the product warranty.
We highly recommend that you advise your couples of this when they order.

Prestige Venetian

Venetian Ebony
Venetian Ebony

The Ultimate in luxury! Venetian Leathers are created from the softest most supple hides and go through a unique process that changes the texture of the surface to create the pattern shown in a fine suede that is “oh so smooth” to touch.

Bonded Leather

Black
Black
White
White

 

Bonded leathers are made from genuine leather and provide a more consistent and refined grain pattern in their presentation. Made from re-constituted leather particles in a man made process that provides a leather cover option at an economical cost. Available in Black or White.

Linen

Salt n Peppa
Salt n Peppa
Sable
Sable
Wheat
Wheat
Poweder Blue
Poweder Blue
Silky Olive
Silky Olive
Silky Gold
Silky Gold

Linen cover materials are made from natural cotton. Great care is required to clean. Clean with a damp soft cloth to remove dirt and dust. Never use strong solvents. Best to you use a lint brush to remove surface fluff which can appear from high use.

Bookcloth

Black
Black
Silver
Silver
Pearl
Pearl

Cotton based fabric, coated to protect the cotton fibre. Available in Black and Pearl.

Impulse

Peru
Peru
Roja
Roja
Royale
Royale
Sand
Sand
Black
Black

Impulse is a superior man-made material. It’s surface is not overly shiny when viewed under a specular light. It also has excellent embossing characteristics.

 

 

Leather Like

Champagne
Champagne
Shimmer Blue
Shimmer Blue
Diamondback
Diamondback
Nero
Nero
White
White

Leather-like materials are man made. They provide a grain texture with a warm and supple feel.

 

White and Champagne Leather Like colours do not emboss consistently and we recommend that this service not be used with them.

Super Suede

Blue
Blue

Soft and supple to the touch. A great album comer material. Available in: Plum, Electric Blue, Slate and Green.

Australian Bush Timber

Australian Bush Timber Finished
Australian Bush Timber Finished

Our timber upgrades for the Essence range of albums and print mount presentations are made from aged fence palings in your choice of natural or finished states. An affordable option that will impress many of your most discerning clients.

 

       Cover Enhancements

 

Cover enhancements enable you to personalise each album, and add value to your professional products and services.

 

 

Cover Embossing

Personalise any album with names, dates graphics  or studio logos. Choose your preferred cover location and use practically any font style.

 

       View House Fonts

Choose to have your cover message in any of the following fonts which we keep on file. Just supply your message along with your chosen font and embossing colour.

 

House Fonts @ 48pt
House Fonts @ 48pt

 

       Graphic Personalising

Enhance album covers with graphic designs. Simply provide us with a black and white image file @ 300 dpi in a .tif or .pdf format file.

Images which are larger than 9cm wide by 6cm tall will attract additional production costs. Email files to orders@albumsaustralia.com.au

Supply Your Preferred Graphic File
Supply Your Preferred Graphic File
Mix Graphics with Text
Mix Graphics with Text
Black Embossing on Leather
Black Embossing on Leather

 

 

       Font Colours

Silver on Black & White
Silver on Black & White
Gold Foil
Gold Foil
Blind
Blind
Black Foil
Black Foil
Laser Etched
Laser Etched
White Foil
White Foil

 

       Embossing Cover Locations

Personalising locations include front or back covers, album spines  the inside of a cover or on either front or back fly pages. Various colour foils are available to  choose from.

(*Thin scripts are not practical with some cover materials)

 

Bottom Right Corner

Bottom Right Corner

Bottom Centre 

Bottom Centre 

Bottom Left Corner

Bottom Left Corner

Above Centre

Above Centre

Dead Centre

Dead Centre

Below Centre

Below Centre

 

 

Elegance Wrap

Make your album presentation into a special gift. One that builds excitement like opening presents on Christmas day.

Elegant wraps hold the album closed by wrapping the back cover onto the front and then surrounding it with it's own ribbon. Available for most square and horizontal format albums.


Acrylic Photo Covers

An impacting presentation using your image printed onto Metallic photographic paper and bonded behind a 4 mm clear acrylic cover. The back panel of this cover is made from our Fusion metal material but can be custom made with any cover. Together they provide a simply stunning album presentation!


Photo Covers

Virtually any image can be used and you can cover up to 3/4 of the cover area (or any width smaller).

Prints are laminated during production to insure it is durable and protected for the life of the album.


Photo Strips

Personalise album covers with printed image strips. Different than photo covers as the print is surrounded by cover material on both sides and laminated in a special process which retains the print texture.

 

A special process enables us to retain the print texture with images printed on 'fine art' rag papers.

       Feature Pages

 

Single Panorama Pages

 

 

 

 

A panorama page is simply a photograph which is mounted edge to edge on an album page which is opposite a matted page (Contempo - Designer albums) or opposite a slip in print page for the DIY albums.

Single Page Panorama
Single Page Panorama

Double Page Panoramas

 

 

An impressive "edge to edge" mounted print that spans across two facing pages of our matted albums (Contempo - Designer - DIY).

Double Panorama - Creased
Double Panorama - Creased
Double Panorama - Split (on Black Pages)
Double Panorama - Split (on Black Pages)
Double Panorama - Split (on white pages)
Double Panorama - Split (on white pages)