Lets not pretend that we're going to be doing this successfully with our average desktop printers that are cheap to buy yet ridiculously expensive to keep feeding with replacement ink cartridges.

The whole hydrographic transfer process can be very cheap if you want it to be.

The process itself isn't rocket surgery. Most of the websites promoting it seem to be targetted at 'mug punters' who might think £50 is good value when they decide to cover their £1 part in 50p's worth of printed pattern.

It really doesn't take much skill to float a printed sheet of paper in a water bath, then dip a part into it !