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Open Question: Human Laundry Tagging? and more...

Open Question: Human Laundry Tagging?

I work for a Commercial laundry called CleanDryLinen that provides linen for companies and people eg.tea towels and bed linen. All the Linen is branded with the company Logo and what type of Linen it is eg a tea towel would have the company logo and TEA TOWEL written in big bold letters. The linen also has a special Chip sewn into them so the electronic computer knows why conveyor belt and washing machine it goes into. The branding is down when an item goes through the scanner and isnt recognised, its sent down a side conveyor where its put into this machine where the linen is stretched and a big stamp with ink comes down and presses ink into it, as this is down a chip is sewn onto the linen. if the machine recognises the fabric to be faded, eg. a tea towel, it would then be stamped again with a bigger stamp that has a matching pattern, faded sheets just get re-bleached. the linen is then grabbed by two big peg-like clamps and held up in the air for about 30 seconds to dry before being put back on the conveyor to be washed and dry as normal. Me and a few colleges want to see what happens to the linen as it is put through the process of laundering. the only way for us to gt onto the conveyor is to be fed through the scanner where we would need a chip and to get the chip we would have to be branded and re-coloured. if we were branded and coloured, would the ink wash off or would we be tea towels that are the property of CleanDry Linen? also i dont want to be a pink and white check, yellow and white striped or bleach-white Tea Towel for the rest of my life, going through an industrial washing machine almost twice a week.

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