A creative use for copy machines (and perhaps printers?):

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I got this great tip via email that would work on wearable art, purses, quilts and many other projects I've seen in craftgrrl from a gal in a Yahoo multimedia art group: If you want to add wording or pictures/graphics in an unusual way, iron an 8x10 piece of freezer paper to the back of an 8x10 piece of lightly colored or white cotton weight or light weight fabric, and print onto the fabric side with a copy machine after you figure out which way the fabric needs to be placed into the feed tray so it prints directly onto the fabric ,( the freezer paper is just a temporary stiffener to help it feed correctly and peels right off when you are done). After removing the freezer paper cut the printed sections out and apply to your project with glue or on sewn projects you could apply with top stitching after fraying the edges slightly. I find this idea intriguing and I wonder if this would work in an ink jet printer too... has anyone ever done anything like this before? The person who sent me this said the copy ink holds up to washings, but I'm not so sure ink jet ink would.