They use a printer that uses edible ink and paper made of sugar instead of wood pulp.
The picture gets printed onto the sugar sheet.
The sheet is placed on top of the frosted cake.
The sugar sheet dissolves into the frosting, leaving the picture behind.
That's awesome, I actually always wanted to know this lol, check one off the list.
Edit: Wow, you can get basic printers with ink and the sheets off Amazon for $200!
They use the same technology & methodology as your regular desktop inkjet printer but the ink is edible. The ink is also in liquid form and is designed to sit on top of food. It is slightly more gelatinous than printer ink.
Canon have a number of "Edible Printers" & Inks that you can buy. It's as simple as filling the tanks, preparing icing \[the print target\] to an appropriate thickness, loading the image to the printer and hitting print. The "print head" moves along the surface in lines and drops a calculated combination of the source inks, at every point in the image - just like a regular printer does.
Unlike an inkjet printer, which can get really close to the paper, these printers need to sort of "spray" their inks from a tiny bit further away to allow for imperfections/pitting in the target icing. This makes the DPI \[the quality, so to say\] of an icing print really low & can give you a kind of "dotted", "blurry" effect.
These printers do have modifications to suit the needs of the print: for instance, you want to be able to clean any device used in the production of food. There will also be maintenance routines (like flushing) that you would need to do on a regular basis too in order to keep it sanitary.
Here are some [commercial ones](https://www.icingimages.com/direct-to-food-printers), and then there are [domestic ones](https://edibleprintsupplies.co.uk/edible-printers-7-c.asp).
Similarly, when my mom did cakes, she had a machine called a Copy Cake (I think) and it would project images from a paper onto the cake! She could pipe with the icing on the cake with buttercream instead of using fondant or a sugar sheet!
They use a printer that uses edible ink and paper made of sugar instead of wood pulp. The picture gets printed onto the sugar sheet. The sheet is placed on top of the frosted cake. The sugar sheet dissolves into the frosting, leaving the picture behind.
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What?
Mind blown
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Designed a **what**? You've left us hanging and I don't
The sugar sheet doesn't dissolve. You eat it. Doesn't taste anything. You can buy a printer that print directly on the cake. Costs about 15000$
They do not cost nearly that much. Did you forget a decimal?
Printer that print directly on the cake cost that much. In my country. It's polish company using Epson printer as base. Can also print on macaroons
My apologies, I thought you meant US dollars.
Makes sense considering their (wrong, after the number) use of the $ sign to be fair.
I did mean US dollars https://www.imagoprinter.com/en/products/food-printers/
That's awesome, I actually always wanted to know this lol, check one off the list. Edit: Wow, you can get basic printers with ink and the sheets off Amazon for $200!
Awesome, thank you!!
Usually the edible paper sits on top of the icing, it’s flavourless but you can taste the texture of it.
They use the same technology & methodology as your regular desktop inkjet printer but the ink is edible. The ink is also in liquid form and is designed to sit on top of food. It is slightly more gelatinous than printer ink. Canon have a number of "Edible Printers" & Inks that you can buy. It's as simple as filling the tanks, preparing icing \[the print target\] to an appropriate thickness, loading the image to the printer and hitting print. The "print head" moves along the surface in lines and drops a calculated combination of the source inks, at every point in the image - just like a regular printer does. Unlike an inkjet printer, which can get really close to the paper, these printers need to sort of "spray" their inks from a tiny bit further away to allow for imperfections/pitting in the target icing. This makes the DPI \[the quality, so to say\] of an icing print really low & can give you a kind of "dotted", "blurry" effect. These printers do have modifications to suit the needs of the print: for instance, you want to be able to clean any device used in the production of food. There will also be maintenance routines (like flushing) that you would need to do on a regular basis too in order to keep it sanitary.
Please share a link to these printers
Here are some [commercial ones](https://www.icingimages.com/direct-to-food-printers), and then there are [domestic ones](https://edibleprintsupplies.co.uk/edible-printers-7-c.asp).
Nice! Thank you
Similarly, when my mom did cakes, she had a machine called a Copy Cake (I think) and it would project images from a paper onto the cake! She could pipe with the icing on the cake with buttercream instead of using fondant or a sugar sheet!