AboutConnie Hester Expertise Quilting and applique expert.Can advise on the following topics:quilting, art quilts, quilt design and construction, machine and hand quilting, paper foundation piecing, machine piecing, hand piecing, raw edge applique, turned-edge applique and fiber art.
Experience Winning awards in international fiber and art competitions since 1983; http://www.conniehester.com/
BS,MS
See my work and books at http://www.conniehester.com/
Expert: Connie Hester Date: 8/29/2006 Subject: printing on fabric
Question thank you, I appreciate your honesty, I was thinking more of using it for copying my child's art work onto fabric and making pillows, placemats and quilts so the "photo quality" wouldn't be that important to me if the copy quality would be good for art work. Any recommendations with that in mind would be appreciated.
-------------------------
Followup To
Question -
What would you recommend as far as a piece of equipment that would both scan images onto the computer, copy and print on fabric? The Epson C84 you mentioned only prints but I was hoping to get an "all in one" so that I could also scan and print images from the computer onto fabric for quilting projects? Any recommendations?
Answer -
I probably shouldn't respond to your question because I don't know the answer, but let me tell you why I don't know anything about such machines. If you are interested in high-quality, clear, crisp photo prints, I have heard across the board that these all-in-ones cannot do that. Consequently, I have avoided them. I am responding to your question so that you know what people are saying, those who want crisp scanned photos for printing, and so that you can perhaps do some more investigating amongst others who use printers in their art.
Connie Hester
Answer The problem is the quality of the scan. Then, when that scan is printed, it may reproduce a child's crayon or painted project fairly adequately, but I think you will be disappointed with the overall quality and certainly with any photos or items that you will inevitably want to scan and print in the future. You will be limited with such a product.
On top of this, you will need pigment-based inks (like the Durabrite inks in many of the Epson printers) for longevity of the prints, something which dye-based inks (as in HP printers) cannot provide.
