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I would imagine that a printer with the ink cartridges close to the head is way preferable to one whose ink flows down tubes to the head. Probably makes the Brother a bad choice.

I suppose if going a DIY route with refill carts/CISS, you'd want to clean out/sterilise the carts/CISS/and printer somehow before running actual inks and rice paper through it.

pisquee;54095 wrote:I suppose if going a DIY route with refill carts/CISS, you'd want to clean out/sterilise the carts/CISS/and printer somehow before running actual inks and rice paper through it.

IMHO it would have to certainly be a dedicated printer for this use.................

WorthDoingRight;54067 wrote:I would imagine that a printer with the ink cartridges close to the head is way preferable to one whose ink flows down tubes to the head. Probably makes the Brother a bad choice.

I should think the important thing is how the paper behaves. Printers like the Brother have a very tight curve on the paper path. If the rice paper won't suffer that tight curve, then you'd want a printer with more of a straight-through path - like the Epsons that have the paper tray out the back of the printer.

Well, definitely a dedicated printer, in the same way I wouldn't be faffing about changing a printer from sublimation, to pigment inks and back depending on what job I am printing, each printer dedicated for its own thing.
Doing the edible printing is something I've thought about doing for a while, but haven't had the space to dedicate to it, but moving to a much bigger house next month, so I may consider it again.