Emily, I've seen this done on a craft show. You can use a temporary spray adhesive and stick the fabric to a piece of card stock or heavy print paper. Be sure to adjust your printer to the paper thickness. After printing, you can heat set the ink by placing a pressing cloth over the image and using a hot iron (NO STEAM!) press and hold for aprox. 10 seconds, move to another section and then repeat. It might be good to remove your paper backing before pressing. Let us know how it works out. Shyrell On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:12:02 -0500 "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx> writes: > My best friend died three days ago and I'm making Tibetan Prayer > Flags for solace. > > I went out to Staples and bought a package of those iron-on inkjet > transfer sheets. They're pretty lame - they dull the color and > stiffen the cloth, since one prints to a sheet of think tacky > plastic > on a carrier of paper and then use heat to make the plastic adhere > to > the cloth. > > Has anyone tried to put a piece of fabric through a consumer type > Epson inkjet printer? If you can get it to start, does the ink go > right through and mess up everything? Does the ink actually stain > the cloth or sit on the surface? Does the ink wash out? > > Any alternative ideas for how to get a picture onto fabric without > learning how to do serigraphy or getting worked up about batiking? > > This is solace, not a new career! > -- > Emily L. Ferguson > mailto:elf@xxxxxxxx > 508-563-6822 > New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography > http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf/ > > >
