Printing on cotton

You can buy fabric sheets to use in your ink jet printer. I bounght mine at Walmart in the notions area but fabric stores probably carry them too.

-- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff:

You can get a product called "Image Maker" that you paint onto a photocopied image which you then iron onto the fabric. It's easier than messing around with possibly damaging your printer!

Charlie.

Any idea where they sell that in the UK?

I bought it from my local art shop. A good art shop should sell it! It cost me about £3.

Charlie.

That sounds like an interesting product. Can it be used with images from an ink jet printer, or do the images have to be photocopies?

Julia > You can get a product called "Image Maker" that you paint onto a photocopied

I have seen Image Maker in John Lewis stores

I'm not sure. I've always used them photocopied as I used to just do it at school for free. I've always prefered this method as theres no chance of it ruining my printer!

Charlie.

My printer is the HP Photo Smart P1000. I did trim the fabric w/freezer paper attached to the size of printer paper. You must make sure there are no strings hanging. Bonnie NJ

Printing "all the elements" would have been so much simpler if only you had lived in the Renaissance. Then there wer only four elements: earth, air, fire, and water.

Nell in Austin

Just this morning Alex Anderson's guest was scanning family documents which she printed for quilts. I looked at it, but just thought that it is far beyond what I feel up to right now. Power to you!

Nell in Austin

I use the transfer paper that Ami Simms sells. NAYY.

You have to take yourpictures and the transfer paper to a copy place with a heavy duty heatsetting printer. Do NOT try this at home!! The ink will fall off thepaper and make a terrible mess in your printer. You have them mirrorimage the copies and use heavy paper. Then, you take the copies homeand press them with a HOT iron and lots of pressure. I covered aboard with some batting and muslin, placed it on the floor and pressedthere.

A bit more trouble than the ones that you do in your home printer, but the copies on the fabric are extremely sharp and are washable. It truly looks like the actual photographs on the fabric.

Kim

Still, when the printer you're buying is going to be part of two peoples business', it's not a chance to take. From the pictures I've seen of inkjet printer fabric, I definatly think the image maker is better though. It's a much more photographic result, much cleaner, YMMV. It's also cheaper. I've seen freezer paper for sale here for around £7 a pack ($10). The image maker was about £3 and should last longer.

Charlie.