Photo onto a cake

[Justin]

Does anyone print using the edible inks? Customer has asked for a cake to be printed with a photo (may make a mess of the press!)

[phoenixalpha]

Its incredibly easy - I do it all the time - edible ink & canon printer with icing paper - fab reproduction - ok it's not gonna be as clear as a mug for example but it's pretty good and a heckuva lot better than the local tesco/asda etc.

Just like printing with a normal printer except on to icing.

[Justin]

Is it something that you could do and post to me? Not sure how feasible that would be, if so please PM me with costs

[phoenixalpha]

What size and shape of cake?

[bms]

Does anyone print using the edible inks? Customer has asked for a cake to be printed with a photo (may make a mess of the press!)

You'd be very surprised to know of how many people do sublimation printing AND edible printing. There's a huge number doing them separately but a lot that do both!

[Justin]

What size and shape of cake?

They're making a cake 8"x8". They've ordered the rice paper for some strange reason, I've said there's no need. Let me know the max. dimensions and price, I'll see if they're interested

[JSR]

Don't you have to abide by some food standards regulation if you're selling edible foodstuffs like this?

[bms]

All our edible inks and papers are EU approved. After that it's down to next part of the production chain, schools, bakery companies, etc for them to adhere to the appropriate hygiene standards.

[JSR]

Do you provide documentation to this effect?

And do we (the people that do the printing) need to follow certain regulations?

I ask becaus I've long been interested in your edible inks, but I've always presumed that anyone dealing with foodstuffs would need to follow some regulations from the Food Standards Agency or whatever it's called.

After all, even if you do provide documentation for the inks, I wouldn't want to be buying a printed cake from someone who's assembled it in some oily garage with dirty printers and rust.

Where do we stand on all that?

[bms]

We have the documentation online. Certificates and edible ink ingredients - all in the edible ink section or type certificate in the search box. As for the end user we have no control over that - it is their responsibility to act in accordance with the prevailing legislation (just as dyesubbers act in accordance with copyright - the same applies to cake printing plus hygene).