It’s Design & Photography month over on CRAFT, Where Andrew Lewis has a guide to running fabric through your inkjet printer:
Sometimes I have a great idea for a textile project, but I get put off by the thought of trawling through the seemingly endless bolts of fabric at the store. Then I think about the hassle of haggling over the price and ending up with three times as much fabric as I actually needed.
I decided to try printing my own fabric on an inkjet printer, and the results really exceeded my expectations. The advantages to this technique are tremendous, and I don’t have to haggle over prices any more.
I get my own designs, in the quantity I need, at a fraction of the price I would normally pay. The only drawback is that people keep asking me to print something special for them, too!
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This is really cool but if that process is a little too DIY, you should check out spoonflower.com. I’d prefer to avoid all the trial and error bits and just get to the final product; fabric made to look how I want.
You can upload an image and they print the custom fabric for you. Prices and quality seem decent too but I haven’t actually used them yet since I can’t sew! (I’m not associated with them in any way- just a fan!)
We love Spoonflower, too! Check out this rad CRAFT fabric they printed for us from Samantha Hahn’s design: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/05/spoonflower_craft_fabric.html
Hackaday has a great guide on modifying a printer for direct-to-garment printing for printing on already-assembled garments. It’s a bit involved, but the results are quite nice.
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