label printing?

I use a Canon inkjet - iron my labels before attaching them to quilt. Di

I have never known anyone to use a laser printer, only the inkjet kind. There's probably a good reason for that, LOL!

Yes, I set the colors with a good hot iron, first covering the label with plain paper. If no ink transfers to the paper, I know it is set.

Does it withstand washing? I don't want my labels to fade away in the wash.

Julia in MN

No fading so far. Some of the labels are 10 years old and since they are on kid quilts, they have seen plenty of use and laundering.

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:26:44 -0600, Joanna wrote (in article ):

Inkjet. I think the laser printer is too hot and will ruin either your fabric sheet or the printer.

Maureen

I print mine on a Lexmark inkjet printer. I don't use anything special. In fact, I scotchtape the piece of fabric that I'm using to a sheet of regular paper. Sometimes I'll do two or three at a time. The Print Preview button in Microsoft Word is your friend for this. I then remove the fabric from the paper, press to set, fold the edges under about 1/4 inch and sew by hand. So far, I've had no complaints of fading.

I wonder if it makes a difference what kind of printer -- and therefore what kind of printer ink -- you use???

Julia in MN

I printed a label in 2004. Some of the printing has disappeared completely some halfway and some not at all. Maybe I used a 'bold' font for some of it which resulted in a heavier saturation of ink ? I cant remember .... I do remember the outside border came from a site on the net and this is the halfway faded part.

Dee in Oz

"Julia >> No fading so far. Some of the labels are 10 years old and since they are

I have used both an HP and an Epson printer, and buy generic ink when I can find it.

Howdy!

It doesn't matter which printer or font or style used IF the ink isn't water-proof, intended for fabric marking. Using the regular printer ink on to-be-washed plain fabric labels is a gamble. Sometimes ya' get lucky, but there's no guarantee. ;-)

For printed labels, I've used pre-treated fabric (intended for washing) &/or gone over the print w/ a Pigma Micron Pen or FabricMate pen. Then I iron it. Now I prefer to write on the quilt.

R/Sandy

That may be so Sandy but I just found it odd that there was 3 different stages of 'fading/disappearing' on the one label. It is not as if I treated one part of the label any different to the rest.

Dee in Oz

Howdy!

...which just proves the instability of the non-permanent ink. ;-)

Good luck!

R/S