Textile Inks in consumer printers?

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Charles P Lamb

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

Charles P. Lamb
 
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 , . . .
 
Textiles can be printed with dyebased inkjet printers successfully with
relatively permanent images.
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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.
 
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.

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