Textile Inks in consumer printers?

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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

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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.

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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