Fabric with Digitally Controlled Characteristics

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Fabric may include a web of printed strands. Each printed strand may include multiple materials extending along a length of the strand. The materials may include at least first and second materials with one or more different characteristics such as color, melting temperature, modulus of elasticity, etc. The printed strands may have some strand segments in which the first material faces a first direction and the second material faces a second, opposite direction, whereas other strand segments may have the first material facing the second direction and the second material facing the first direction. By rotating the print head nozzle during printing, computing equipment can selectively adjust which regions of the fabric will look and feel like the first material and which regions of the fabric will look and feel like the second material.