How to Print Fabric At Home with a 2-in-1 Fabric Printer

If you've ever wanted to print fabric at home or needed to make custom fabric sheets - this new Brother Fabric Printer is a game changer. 

The Printmoda is not only a fabric printer it can also print paper making it a two in one printer.  Read on to learn how to easy it is to print your own fabric. 

The Printmoda Fabric printer includes a roll of printable fabric. The roll goes in the bottom tray of the printer..and you just select the tray when you're ready to print.  You also have the option to add paper to either of the other trays. 

 

To print fabric it's really very simple.  For my first fabric print on Printmoda I wanted to print a simple square pattern that I would eventually cut to for tea towels.

The plaid Christmas pattern I used is from So Fontsy.  You might recognize it from the sublimation laser shaker ornaments I made last year. 

View tutorial on how to make laser cut shaker ornaments

To print the pattern or design on fabric, open the image/pattern in a Silhouette Studio work area. 

From the File > Print Page Setup > select the printer and page size.  

A page setup box will pop up and there you'll select the Brother printer and then the Page Size. 

To print on the fabric roll be sure to select correct Page Size. The fabric roll is 12" wide so you'll always select 11.69 but you can pick the length based on the size of the sheet you want to print. I went with 11.69" x 8.67".

From the Page Setup panel make sure that the Media is set to "Printer". 

When you're ready go to File > Print. Confirm the correct printer and tray / media are selected and then click print. 

The Printmoda fabric printer will print and then cut the fabric off the roll for you. 

If you wanted to print longer you'd just adjust the print length dimension in the Print Page Setup step. 

The fabric is lined with a carrier sheet to make it easy to print. 

Depending what you are going to do next, you can remove the fabric from the liner now or later. 

I left it on while I cut the fabric with my Silhouette CAMEO 4 and rotary blade.   

 

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