After a full day of working on our books, I decided to stay late to transfer my final digital prints onto fabric as final samples for my book. This was so I could learn the skill of how to, if I should want to use digital printing onto fabric in the future. I found this extremely useful and easy to do, which was quite a surprise as I thought it would be much more complicated than it was.
To make the sample you simply had to convert your image to a 300 resolution, flat, GRB, TIFF format. Then you opened the file on the computer connected to the machine, and printed it the size you wanted. This particular printer, prints your print onto paper in special ink, then you use the flat bed to essentially heat press your print onto a chosen synthetic fabric. There are actually two ways to digitally print onto fabric, but the other printer which prints it straight onto the fabric instead of paper only transfers the print onto natural fabrics. As my samples were man-made fabric, I used the paper printer.
I really enjoy doing this, and I hope to use this technique in future work.
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