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Old 05-08-2015, 02:15 AM
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Great idea.
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Old 05-08-2015, 03:12 AM
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I have made labels using my printer by using Bubble Jet Set 2000 and Bubble Jet Rinse. It makes the regular printer ink permanent through washings. I buy high thread count white fabric and treat it with the Bubble Jet Set 2000. I then cut it to 8.5x11 size and iron it on freezer paper so it goes through my printer. Once printed I treat it with Bubble Jet Rinse. The ink after treating it is now set and can withstand washing and the fabric remains soft. Many of the fabrics made to go through printers are so stiff. This method also works great for photographs that you transfer to fabric.
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More good news, just took a sample from the dryer and there is some fading but still quite legible. I also should have added that the adhesive was basting spray, not craft. And it looks like Foxit reader would be a better choice than the seamonkey composer. But another way would be to trace over the printed piece (even I can do that) with a more permanent ink. And if anyone has used a good permanent ink for fabric could you please share the brand?
I've tried several pens with varying degrees of success---even plain old fine point Sharpie. The best, and most durable, that I have found is Pentel Gel Roller for Fabric.
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Old 05-08-2015, 04:45 AM
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I would only use Pigma Micron and mostly I use an 05, sometimes an 03. I have used them for years, first on craft items, polymer clay, wood, you name it and then to sign oil paintings and now on labels for quilts. They do come in some colors, but I only have sepia and black.
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Old 05-08-2015, 05:35 AM
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I just iron a piece of fabric on freezer paper then run it through the printer. If you iron the label after printing, it helps set the ink and keep from it fading.
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Old 05-08-2015, 08:26 AM
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Love what you have done. Putting a label on your work is so important. If you get a chance would you write a tutorial on how you made your label? I'd like to give it a try instead of using preprinted fabric labels.
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Originally Posted by Yooper32 View Post
I would only use Pigma Micron and mostly I use an 05, sometimes an 03. I have used them for years, first on craft items, polymer clay, wood, you name it and then to sign oil paintings and now on labels for quilts. They do come in some colors, but I only have sepia and black.
I have found that a sharpie bleeds.....If you do use the Pigma or most other's be sure to "heat set" them before you wash.....should not then fade. I also use .08 for writing. I have several colors and have never been disappointed....I have the .08 in only black and red.
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very nice!!!
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Old 05-09-2015, 10:32 AM
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Believe it or not many of the commercial brands of gel ink is permanent pigment ink. My husbands shirts are the proof! These were developed because there are bad folks out there that 'wash' checks to get the ink off so they can resubmit them.
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thank you very helpful
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