Okay, I'm new to lj, but I've stalked here silently for many months now, and I've been extremely curious about printing buckram with an inkjet printer. I haven't seen very specific answers(or very many at all) so I tried it! (PS I have no idea how to cut so I hope it works!)
I have a HP Inkjet printer. Not sure what model, but it worked fine for this.
First, I created what I wanted my eyes to look like in Paint Tool SAI, but any program should work fine. This is a picture of the eye designs for reference later on.
Then, I booted up MS Paint to resize the eyes to fit on my buckram with accurate sizes(this can be easily done by messing around with the canvas size and print settings)
Then, I placed a piece of buckram into my printer, cut to fit 8 by 10(the buckram was fursuitsupplies.com's loosely woven) and printed under "other specialty papers".
At first, the printer wouldn't take it(buckram went through with no print) but I found out that as the printer starts looking for paper to take, I had to gently force in it. The results came out very clear! Then I flipped the paper around and printed the other side black to conserve time and, voila!
There it is! It came out very clear in case you can't tell by the picture.
Here's a bonus pic of them installed into the foam work of a suit I'm making!
I have a HP Inkjet printer. Not sure what model, but it worked fine for this.
First, I created what I wanted my eyes to look like in Paint Tool SAI, but any program should work fine. This is a picture of the eye designs for reference later on.
Then, I booted up MS Paint to resize the eyes to fit on my buckram with accurate sizes(this can be easily done by messing around with the canvas size and print settings)
Then, I placed a piece of buckram into my printer, cut to fit 8 by 10(the buckram was fursuitsupplies.com's loosely woven) and printed under "other specialty papers".
At first, the printer wouldn't take it(buckram went through with no print) but I found out that as the printer starts looking for paper to take, I had to gently force in it. The results came out very clear! Then I flipped the paper around and printed the other side black to conserve time and, voila!
There it is! It came out very clear in case you can't tell by the picture.
Here's a bonus pic of them installed into the foam work of a suit I'm making!