A currently airing television commercial depicts a young boy who creates a team logo on his computer, prints to a Canon color printer, then transfers the image to a t-shirt by ironing it on. If you were wondering whether or not the Apple Color StyleWriter 2200, 2400, and Color StyleWriter Pro printers can do this, they can! Transfer papers are special purpose papers that can be used to transfer images from a printed page to another surface such as a shirt. Apple does not supply or test transfer papers on our printers, but there are third-party companies that supply products which should be compatible.

Canon sells special transfer paper for their line of MS-DOS/Windows color ink-jet printers which, due to the design similarities with the Color StyleWriter series of printers, should produce acceptable results when used with the Color StyleWriter 2200, Color StyleWriter 2400, and Color StyleWriter Pro.

Under normal conditions the inks used in the Color StyleWriter 2200, Color StyleWriter 2400, and Color StyleWriter Pro are water soluble. This makes them poor candidates for transferring images to cloth, since you would normally wash the cloth. However, Canon sells a special coated transfer paper that can be used to transfer image to fabric. In order to permanently set the water-soluble ink into the fabric, the cloth needs to be dipped into a vinegar solution using the instructions provided with the paper.

Canon's transfer paper does not require any special ink and can be ordered directly from Canon's consumer supplies group at (800) 671-1090. The Canon T-shirt Transfer Paper part number is TR101 as of the date of this publication.

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