{"id":644,"date":"2012-03-20T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inkedibles.com\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2012-03-20T07:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:51:14","slug":"bakers-choose-between-canon-and-epson-for-cake-printing-and-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/edible-paper\/bakers-choose-between-canon-and-epson-for-cake-printing-and-decoration.html","title":{"rendered":"Bakers Choose between Canon and Epson for Cake Printing and Decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Printing on edible paper<\/strong><\/a> is an efficient way to adorn cakes and cookies. A professional baker even went so far as to create a tasty treat on edible paper. Edible printing<\/strong><\/a> is a bit expensive and requires a dedicated printer, so make sure you will do it before looking into purchasing edible ink supplies and equipment for edible printing.<\/p>\n

Recently, the technology behind cake printing has been effectively made to order which has made the process more affordable for small bakeries, professionals and specialty print shops.All you need in this process is a desktop photo printer such as a Canon PIXMA, a photo scanner, and compatible edible ink cartridges. After that, replace the photo paper with edible icing sheet and you are ready to make quickly unique images for exceptional specialty cake designs.<\/p>\n

To begin printing on food items, purchase or designate a Canon or Epson printer dedicated for your cake printing. Many edible ink or paper manufacturers specify which particular printer will work wonder with their products. If you want to use an old printer, you have to remove the old ink residue before using it for cake printing or any other edible printing purpose. Make sure that the printer you choose to use can be used by looking at edible ink websites.Remember if the printer you use is a previously owned printer, you must clean it thoroughly beforehand to avoid toxins.Canon\u2019s printers are best choice in this regard because their print heads can be removed and cleaned or replaced easily. <\/p>\n

Edible inks<\/strong><\/a> should be used in the manner that they are intended \u2013 that is for dispersion through an inkjet printer onto edible paper. The printer warms up the edible ink while it is being ink-jetted and this results in a more sanitary method of getting the edible ink (aka food coloring made to flow through an inkjet printer) onto the frosting sheets (aka edible paper).<\/p>\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>: The information in this article does not represent any particular company\u2019s opinions or suggestions. Edible ink printing should follow the instructions of the manufacturer from whom you buy your Edible Ink supplies, and it should be noted that the mixing of edible inks and regular inks should not be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Printing on edible paper is an efficient way to adorn cakes and cookies. A professional baker even went so far as to create a tasty treat on edible paper. Edible printing is a bit expensive and requires a dedicated printer, so make sure you will do it before looking into purchasing edible ink supplies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edible-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inkedibles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}