If you have your cake business and want to add photo cake printing category to it, to increase the creativity. The Following things you need for that. Cake Printing is to Print on Photo cake sheet with edible inks but edible printable inks with the inkjet printer.
We can use any inkjet printer for this, but what is the best for me is single function ink tank printer, Preferably Epson and Canon ink tank Printers. The Printer needs to be new as we need to use Edible inks and mixing with other inks may be a problem.
The Next step is which printer, as there so many options available in printer. Mostly all and any inkjet printer can be used for cake printing. Epson L130 is the most used printer followed by Canon G series printer. There are Few Higher version of the printer which are faster in speed, High capacity. Does the Quality of printing changes with the printer, yes probably the quality of the printing changes?
The Edible Cake Sheets should be used at most of the Highest quality so it for not to damage the Printer, as we can have what they say “Paper Loading “problem. This problem can be solved easily. So, use the Good Edible Sheets and Edible Inks, so you have chosen wisely.
Icing sheet should have a little moisture will help the edible printed image get placed on the icing and blend with it. AS in India the weather changes from High heat to Cold weather to very high Moisture from East to West and North to south of Indian States, be gentle while using any sort of liquid as this may cause the colors to run. Hold the sheet carefully and place it on the cake carefully and smooth it out to the edges using your palm.
Tips to store sheet in the aluminium warp or plastic bag until you required an air tight, Keep in the Flat surface till you use them, Store it out of direct sunlight, dust and too heat.
Try to avoid use of Copyright images to print so you can avoid legal problems. A licensed image or company’s logo can only be printed if you are authorized by the company which owns the logo. Enjoy the Printing and exploring your Creativity with photo cakes.
