# Securing graphics and prints: edition, number, and the sheet that creases

> Securing prints: note the edition, store flat, avoid light, keep signature and number in the photo.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/grafik-drucke-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

A print is a sheet from an edition. The number and the signature make the difference between a poster and a graphic. Both crease just as fast. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this sits with paper.

## What gets ruined without a thief

Light, a crease, an acidic frame, damp. You store flat. You photograph the number under the signature once, sharp, before a frame hides it and you can no longer find it in five years. Posters for looking and graphics for insuring stay two stacks.

## When someone comes

Framed on the wall it is visible, in the folder invisible and light. The expensive edition does not lie in the hallway stack of posters. It lies in the document cabinet when the format fits. The list states edition, number, dimensions.

## The folder

Artist, title, technique, edition, number, dimensions, receipt. Photo of the signature and the number. On the policy, separately, as soon as the price requires it.


## Häufige Fragen

### Put posters and graphics together?

Only in the same space, not on the list. The edition is the difference.

### Number not readable?

Then you photograph it while you can still make it out, and you write it on the list.

### May the graphic hang?

Yes, without direct sun and with an acid-free mount. The very expensive print has a dark permanent place.