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Sparkly

(24,352 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 05:59 PM Oct 12

Hand embroidery pattern printing

Hand (VERY basic crewel) embroidery was another thing my mother taught me. At one point some years back, I collected antiquarian catalogues of 'craftsman'-style, art-nouveau-ish patterns and tried digitizing them into good drawings, then printing them as patterns (like Aunt Martha's)!

There was a sublimation ink available then that was $15 per cartridge. It only worked with one specific kind of Epson printer that cost about $60. It was worth it to me! But suddenly a lawsuit over the ink occurred, and the ink cartridges were never sold that way again. (They were "Sawbridge," "Sawgrass," something like that?)

It was perfect! Anything I could design and print could be an iron-on embroidery pattern! Once that ink was gone (it's available, but only for refillable tanks and commercial machines, not on the small consumer level), my fun was over.

Does anyone know about this? Thanks in advance!

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Hand embroidery pattern printing (Original Post) Sparkly Oct 12 OP
It looks like Walmart sells the Sawbridge sublimation ink cartridges. LoisB Oct 12 #1
Thanks! Sparkly Oct 12 #3
Check this link perhaps. BootinUp Oct 12 #2
Thanks to you and LoisB! Sparkly Oct 12 #4
good luck with your project. BootinUp Oct 12 #5

Sparkly

(24,352 posts)
4. Thanks to you and LoisB!
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 07:29 PM
Oct 12

You've sent me on the right path! I'll keep looking through these, but so far it seems the solutions involve large systems of the company's products. I'm hoping for a low-end (cheap) solution for printing with black (iron-on) ink, with a basic ink-jet printer.

Thanks again!

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