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 | Our specially processed wafer produces clear, vibrant color when used with our inks. |
| It is not on a backing sheet |
| No waste ripping image trying to remove from backing sheet |
| Our wafer melts in water NOT icing. If that were to happen, the picture might very well blur or the colors run. |
| It feeds like regular paper. It is not necessary to load from the back of the printer. |
| You can put about a
dozen sheets in the feeder at once. Queue up several prints at a time
and let them run unattended. |
All you need is a compatible printer, edible inks and
edible paper. We supply all of these. As far as clip art goes, you
can find tons of it on the web. So why pay extra for something you can get for
free. Canon creative software comes with all Canon printers.
Photo processing software is inexpensive and available everywhere. Most photos can be printed directly from the scanner software without the need for further processing.
We took a sample study of over 2000 prints to get an
average. The BCI-21 cartridges lasted about 30-60 prints for black and
50-100 for the color cartridge. The BC-3 & 6 series cartridges lasted about twice as many.
One way to minimize ink usage is to go to the printer properties and reduce the intensity of the prints until you see a degradation of the print. It is not necessary to soak the paper with ink to get a good print and it just wastes ink. Also, always run the printer on the fine setting or one adjustment to the left of the best quality on the photo setting. Always select the "plain paper" setting. Please call or email us if you have questions.
The shelf life of our inks is about one year unopened. You can re-cap the ink cartridges and place a piece of tape over
the vent hole if you want to take them out of the printer. Please
remember, some type of ink cartridges must be in the print head at all times to prevent the
head from drying out and plugging up.
The wafer shelf life is one year printed or unprinted. Once you print on the wafer, simply store it in a plastic bag away from strong light. We recommend that you do not refrigerate the wafer or ink.
We use Canon printer compatible cartridges for a couple of reasons. One is the HP and Lexmark cartridges are also the print head. So to use them it would be necessary to empty out the cartridge and clean it and refill it with edible ink. There is no way to get all of the ink out of the foam in the cartridges. Also, they are not made from food grade plastics. In the case of the Epson printers, they make too many styles of print cartridges for it to be economical to make food grade cartridges for them.
Setting up your printer for use with our products is
fairly simple. Normally use the photo setting for photos and the graphics
setting for logos and cartoon or clip art. Whichever setting used, always
use the "plain paper" setting and the highest resolution. If the paper seems to be too
saturated, try lowering the intensity until the print still looks good and the
paper is not so saturated. This will also save on ink usage. If you
need help, please don't hesitate to contact us for further assistance.
It will stick well to iced cakes as long as it is applied to fresh icing. Normally you would not want the icing too wet. If you plan to use a whipped cream or other icings with a lot of water, we recommend coating the back with piping gel to seal out the water. Also, coating the top with clear piping gel will make a glossy type picture rather than a matte type.
There are several ways to stick our product to cookies. Normal icing, royal icing, or corn syrup thinned with a little water will stick the image to a fairly flat cookie.
If the finished cookie is fairly light colored the best way is to coat the
uncooked cookie with a little egg white and apply the image to the uncooked
cookie and cook normally.
A neat way to do hard candy lollipops is to pour 1/2 using a clear color, usually lemon or lime since they are clear flavorings. Place the edible picture on top and pour the second half white. It's easy and looks great.
Using our products to decorate chocolate
is easy. Cast the chocolate and after it cools and is removed from the mold, spread a little warm chocolate to the back of the edible paper and adhere it to the bar. Corn syrup, thinned with a little water, applied to the bar or back of the edible paper works well. Piping gel on the bar or back of the edible paper also works well.
Another way is to place the edible paper, face down, in the bottom of the mold and cast the bar.
EDIBLE GLUE
Will work on almost any surface that gets hard.
4 teaspoons all-natural egg whites (meringue powder, such as Just Whites,
available at most stores)
1/4 cup warm water
3 cups powdered sugar, sifted (optional, but reduce water to a little less than
meringue package directions)
Instructions:
Gently stir together egg white powder and water according to directions on the egg white powder package or until completely dissolved. Beat in powdered sugar until thick and smooth. Use immediately.
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