Textile Inks in consumer printers?

[Guest]

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Have any of you folks tried using the textile inks intended for commercial
textile inkjet printers in their home printer?

Charles P. Lamb

 

[birdman]

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Go ahead if you are willing to chance ruining your print head.
If the ink viscosity is far off the printer will die.
Textiles can be printed with dyebased inkjet printers successfully with
relatively permanent images.
There are a variety of ways to pre and post treat the fabric.
My wife the quilter has forced me to learn these horrible things , . . .

 

[pat]

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> Textiles can be printed with dyebased inkjet printers successfully with
> relatively permanent images.

I would like to know more. How do you feed the cloth through a printer?
Attach it to some paper? I would be interested in printing some book
covers.

 

[Guest]

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There are textile sources of fabric attached to paper backing. I think
Jacquard is one company. The fabric contains a mordant to lock in the
dye, and then it needs to be steamed to set it fully.

Art

Pat wrote:

>>Textiles can be printed with dyebased inkjet printers successfully with
>>relatively permanent images.
>
>
> I would like to know more. How do you feed the cloth through a printer?
> Attach it to some paper? I would be interested in printing some book
> covers.
>
>

 

[Guest]

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In article <I5tLe.209160$5V4.40836@pd7tw3no>, Arthur Entlich
<e-printerhelp@mvps.org> wrote:

> There are textile sources of fabric attached to paper backing. I think
> Jacquard is one company. The fabric contains a mordant to lock in the
> dye, and then it needs to be steamed to set it fully.

Art-

I was in Walmart yesterday and looked in their art supplies department. I
found "Crafter's Images" CDs of pictures for printing on cloth, as well as
their Cotton and Silk Poto Fabrics for inkjet printers. Their colors are
set by ironing with a dry iron.

I asked someone who knew about using such materials for decorating
quilts. With regard to washability, it seems that quilts don't get washed
very often, so it could be a long time before any fading was noticed!

Fred