- 1). Follow the manufacturer's instructions to pre-treat your cotton fabric with an ink fixative. Otherwise the ink from your printer will smudge and wash right off the fabric.
- 2). Let the fixative dry, then iron the fabric flat.
- 3). Cut your fabric into 9 x 11 ½-inch pieces. Cut it bigger than a standard sheet of paper. This way when you iron the freezer paper to the back, you won't get wax on your iron. Trim it to size later.
- 4). Cut the freezer paper into 8 ½ x 11-inch pieces .
- 5). Place a fabric sheet right side down on a hard surface like a table or counter top. If you don't have any counter or table space available, you could place a piece of hard cardboard on your ironing board or even on the floor. Next, center the freezer paper on top, shiny side down.
- 6). Use a dry iron on the cotton setting and iron the freezer paper and cotton until they're bonded together. Start in the center and iron out to the edges, making sure to adhere the corners and sides completely.
- 7). Flip the bonded fabric and iron onto the fabric side, smoothing out any wrinkles.
- 8). Trim the bonded fabric to match the measurements of the freezer paper, then brush the fabric side with a lint brush to remove any lint.
- 9). Insert the bonded fabric sheet into the paper feeder of your printer.
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Open the file you want to print onto your fabric and select print from the file menu. - 11
Click on properties, under print quality choose best, and for paper type choose plain. - 12
Click OK to accept the setting changes and OK to print.
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