I'm going to buy a new printer. I prefer to use the wintergreen oil transfer method. What printer should I get? A link to an Amazon product would be ideal.

I hope you get an answer, or when I retire it's going to be pretty difficult to take my giant 4050N printer home with me...

=) Trishee (Government Slacker)

About a year ago I bought a Brother black and white laser printer that someone else mentioned here worked well with wintergreen oil. It does and I use it for all my transfers. But I am at work and the printer is at home so I do not know the model right now. I'll update this posting when I get home tonight.

News flash: the printer is, in fact, a Brother HL-L2360DW and I am currently using a Brother DR-630 toner cartridge in it. It works just fine for synthetic wintergreen oil and cool rub transfers.

didn't somebody post a message with a definitive list of printers which work well transferring?

didn't somebody post a message with a definitive list of printers which work well transferring?

As with many such things... that which you seek can be found with a search in the AQ help (for "printer").

https://www.atlasquest.com/about/wiki/search.php?search=printer#q270

Most of the printers near the top of the list are ancient and would be very hard to find. But I do think that the 2nd from the bottom is the model (Brother HL-L2360DW) that I purchased a year ago. I'll verify when I get home from work today. The toner that came with the printer was okay but the generic toner that Office Depot sells for my printer works EVEN BETTER.

I use synthetic wintergreen oil and a warm iron but lately I've found the a cold iron works just as well so any smooth, flat object should be fine.

Most of the printers near the top of the list are ancient and would be very hard to find.

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Thx!

How does a cold iron work with the wintergreen transfer? Is it just a matter of wetting the image with wintergreen and rubbing it on??

The iron is unnecessary. After applying the WEO sparingly (!!) to the transfer, I put a piece of dry copy paper over it and press firmly with the heel of my hand. The paper absorbs excess oil, and the pressure ensures good contact.

Yes I found that but didn’t see wintergreen as a reference.