Cricut Infusible Ink Review: What Is It? FAQ & Where To Buy
Cricut Infusible Ink is a fun new way of making heat transfer at home!
There are a range of different Infusible Ink products:
- Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets
- Infusible Ink Pens & Markers
- Cricut Infusible Ink Blanks
Let’s take a look at what they’re all about!
Cricut Infusible Ink
Infusible Ink Transfer sheets are cut and pressed similar to iron on vinyl, but have a different look and feel when applied. They are basically pre-printed sublimation transfer sheets, which must be transferred onto polyester garments or poly-coated blanks.
Infusible Ink Markers and Pens are used to draw your own designs on laser copy paper. Go freehand or use your Cricut Maker or Explore Air 2 to draw a design for you!
Cricut have also released a selection of Infusible Ink Blanks. Only certain substrates can be used with Cricut Infusible Ink, and Cricut blanks are perfect!
While these products are not a totally new product, they are certainly an innovation on a long used and much loved method of t shirt printing.
Cricut Infusible Ink is great because you can sublimate without a printer! Easily do you own ink transfers at home, without needing a dedicated sublimation printer, transfer paper, or sublimation ink.
It makes sublimation (or sublimation-like) printing much more accessible to home crafters.
Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets
Infusible Ink Pens & Markers
What’s the difference between Infusible Ink Pens & Markers? The Markers draw a thicker line (1.0), and the pens a thinner line (0.4).
Infusible Ink Apparel
The range of official Cricut Blank Clothing (compatible with Infusible Ink) is:
- Cricut Baby Bodysuit in 3 sizes: 0-3 mnths, 3-6 mnths, 6-9 mnths
- Crew neck men’s blank tees in 5 sizes: small – XX large
- V-neck women’s blank tees in 5 sizes: small – XX large
- Crew neck youth tee in 3 sizes: small, medium, large
Infusible Ink Blank Tote Bags
There are two sizes of blank Cricut Tote Bag (not to be confused with the Cricut storage totes):
- Medium Cricut Tot
- Large Cricut Tote
Blank Cricut Coasters
The Cricut Coaster Blanks are available in two different shapes and can be decorated with both the Infusible Ink Sheets & Infusible Ink Pens & Markers.
- Ceramic Round Cricut Coaster Blanks
- Cork-Backed Square Cricut Coaster Blanks
Cricut Heat Tape
The final product in the Cricut Infusible Ink range is heat resistant tape. This is used for holding transfers in place while the transfers are applied with an EasyPress or Heat Press.
Cricut Heat Tape is transparent blue in color, 0.75 inches wide, and comes in rolls 54 feet long. It does not leave a residue, and can be used for all sorts of heat transfer projects, not just Infusible Ink ones.
Infusible Ink Examples
Here is the 15 minute launch live stream from Facebook – it has a ton of examples and a demonstration on how to use Cricut Infusible Ink transfers.
There already looks to be a great range of colorful patterns and designs to choose from, and no doubt there will be plenty more in the future.
Source: Cricut
You can see in this image the sheet of transfer paper at the back. Using either your Cricut Explore or Maker (or even a Silhouette machine), you cut the design into the transfer.
The design is then applied to a suitable blank using a heat press or the EasyPress 2.
Infusible Ink FAQs
What Heat Press For Infusible Ink?
For the transfer to be successful, it needs to be done at 385°F.
The EasyPress 1 (the blue one) does not reach 400°, so it’s not ideal for this type of transfer. You can still use the original EasyPress, but the results are unlikely to be as good. The EasyPress 2 does reach 400° and is therefore best for Infusible Ink transfers.
Most (if not all) heat press machines reach 400°+ and are also good for these transfers. Take a look at this list of best heat press machines for some examples of what you can use.
You will not be able to effectively use an iron for this product. You cannot set the temperature accurately, and most won’t even reach 400°!
Infusible Ink Vs Iron On
These ink transfer sheets are similar to iron-on sheets in many ways, but very different in others.
They are loaded into your Cricut machine the same way, and the design is cut in reverse as you would with HTV. And, of course, Infusible Ink is also applied with heat.
The BIG difference is that iron on vinyl is vinyl! And vinyl sits on top of the t-shirt or other substrate. Infusible Ink is ink! And that transfers (or infuses) into the fabric itself.
It does not sit on top of the substrate, but becomes one with it. You cannot feel any ridges or texture if you run your hand across the applied transfer.
So, they are two very different products, and can even both be used in the same design. You can layer Cricut iron-on over top of an infusible ink transfer (as was shown in the FB live stream embedded above).
How To Use Cricut Infusible Ink
A bunch of Cricut experts got early access to test and promote the new Infusible Ink products. Here are a few of the best clips from YouTube Cricut.
From Lorrie Nunemaker – starting from where she begins her Cricut Infusible Ink tote bag project tutorial.
From Holly Mostella making an Infusible Ink t-shirt.
How To Use Infusible Ink Markers with Ken’s Kreations.
So all of those videos should give you a good idea as to what infusible ink is, and what it can do!
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Markers were dried out, rolled up when trying to color in drawing. Ink would not adhere to laser copy paper, flaked up
How disappointing! Sorry to hear that… I would return them if possible.