The black Drop-Front Archival Storage Box from Archival Methods protects and stores digital and photographic prints, matted or not, within its 1.5" deep hinged box. The box is constructed from heavyweight, archival-grade boxboard that has a matte-laminate coating for water resistance. Removing the box top reveals a hinged drop-front panel on the front long side so you can safely insert, remove, or examine contents in the the bottom section of the box.

The metal-reinforced corners of the box top are treated with a black polyester coating and a wax-free polyester finish, to be anti-corrosive. The clamps give rigidness and strength to the box so you can stack multiple boxes on top of each other. The box is PAT passed, which means it is suitable for long-term storage.

Coated and Reinforced Metal Corners    1.5" Deep, Hinged Drop-Front Box    Laminate-Coated Box Top & Bottom    Heavyweight, Archival-Grade Boxboard    Passed the Photographic Activity Test    Paper Contains a Minimum of 3% CaCO3    Suitable for Long-Term Storage

Made from fully bleached, high-alpha cellulose pulp. Does not contain post-consumer waste-recycled pulp. Paper is free of metal particles, waxes, plasticizers, residual bleach, and peroxide. Sulfur content is less than 0.0008% reducible sulfur.

Metal edge clamps are corrosion-treated with a black-polyester coating and a wax-free polyester finish.

Constructed from heavyweight, archival-grade boxboard.

Lignin content is measured as per the phloroglucinol test with a Kappa number of 5 or less.

Metallic impurities and iron content will not exceed 150 ppm and copper shall not exceed 6 ppm; no optical brightening agents are used in the pulp.

Paper contains a minimum of 3% calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) with a pH range from 8 to 9.5.

Alkaline or neutral sizing is used; no alum rosin or rosin sizing is used.

Color dyes are light-fast and non-bleeding.

Surface of the paper is smooth and free from knots, shives, and abrasive particles.

Board will not degrade and cause harm to the artifacts.

This paper passed the PAT (Photographic Activity Test) ISO 14523 (formerly ANSI IT9.16).

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. How sturdy is this box? Does it really hold up well with use? Thank you!

A: Yes it does. Excellent for archival storage.

Q: 2. Just to verify, these 8.5 x 10.5 x 3" Archival Storage Boxes are $16.80 per single box, correct?

A: This is for a single box at the posted price.

Q: 3. How many matted prints can fit in this box?

A: The interior of the Lineco Drop-Front Archival Box (11.5 x 15 x 3", Blue/Gray) is height three inches. So as for how many it can fit really depends on the thickness of the paper and matte board you are using.

Q: 4. What is the total number of art prints to keep in a single 3 inch deep archival box?

A: Fine art printing papers vary considerably in thickness. Here's an example of how to figure out how many will fit of any given thickness. Find out the thickness of your paper expressed in mils. A mil is 1/1000 of an inch. As an example, Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright WhitePaper 310GSM, is 19.6 mils thick. 1000 divided by 19.6 = 51. So 51 sheets would be 1" thick. If you fill the Lineco box right to the top you'll get 153 prints in it. Now that's the theoretical maximum. You have to assume that you're not PRESSING these prints in, so they'll take up a little more space. You might have the prints in sleeves for protection. you might be using inter leafing tissue. Anything that increases the actual space taken up by each print reduces your count.

Q: 5. about how many archival sleeve pages will fit in this depth of box?

A: 250 archival sleeve pages will fit Archival Methods 06-001 Binder Box with 1.5" O-Ring.

Q: 6. How many pages will fit in this box?

A: It depends upon what you store in the box, for slides about 20 pages, for prints about 80 pages.

Q: 7. What are the interior dimensions of this box?

A: Hello Richard. I took a ruler to one of my boxes and it measured 9.5 x 12.5 x 3 , which happen to be the quoted dimensions of the box. Either the manufacturer is measuring the interior or the thin sides subtract no appreciable volume. I even sliced a piece of spare mat board to those dimensions and placed it in the bottom of the box to be sure. Even though the box is very thin it is extremely rigid. It's a well made box.

Q: 8. how does the drop front stay closed? is it magnetic? or is it always down when the lid is off?

A: The lid holds the drop side closed. When the lid is off, the drop side falls down about halfway so you can access the prints more easily.

Q: 9. how many prints can it hold?

A: Around 250

Q: 10. What are the dimensions of this product? Will it hold 81/2 x 11 3-Ring Page Protectors?

A: The outer dimensions of the Archival Methods Binder Slip Case Set (1.5" D-Ring, Black Binder / Black Slip-in Case) Is 12.1 x 12.5, so the 8 1/2 X 11 3 ring protector will fit.