Does Anyone Do?

Decorating By vickinc Updated 19 Mar 2007 , 1:14pm by moejoe

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vickinc Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:04am
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Does anyone do edible images?

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Momof4luvscakes Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:07am
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I do! I have started doing quite a bit of them.

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moejoe Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:10am
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I have to get my ink for the printer and can not wait to start making them .

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JaneK Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:13am
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I have done only one cake with an edible image...it was a bible cake that required quite a bit of writing for a child's confirmation in French and since I don't write well on cakes, I used an edible image. It turned out well in the end (much suffering during the making of it icon_lol.gif)

I have to buy mine from the grocery store at $8/page so not too bad if I just want one once in a while.

Do you do your own?

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tiggy2 Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:13am
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I do and I love them!

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vickinc Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:19am
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I am just trying to get mine set up. I have everything to do it with but am having trouble inserting the ink in the printer.
I was buying mine also but often enough I decided to get my own stuff. If all else fails, I can always go to the grocery store to get a sheet printed but they dont always like my images because some can be copyrighted. I have one now I wanted to do for work tomorrow and it has a viking kitchen in it, they probably wont want to print for me.

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tiggy2 Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:23am
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What kind of printer do you have?

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Momof4luvscakes Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:27am
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I use an Epson. It was easy to set up. Maybe we can help you out.

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vickinc Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:31am
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I have a canon ip4300.

Any suggestions would be fantastic!!

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tiggy2 Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:37am
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I have an epson too and it was very easy to set up.. Not sure I can help with a canon but what kind of problems are you having?

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vickinc Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:39am
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I cant seem to get the cartridges to lock in, out of 5 I can get 3 to seat like they are supposed to

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tiggy2 Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 3:47am
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I had a little trouble with mine and just kept taking them out and putting them back in and eventually they worked but it was really frustrating. Sorry I can't be of more help.

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vickinc Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 5:02am
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Thanx a million!! I am able to get the cartidges in the printer now just by doing what you did.

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tiggy2 Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 5:05am
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That's great, I'm glad it worked for you! Sometimes persistance pays off.

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ang_ty95 Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 5:09am
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Do you need a dedicated printer for edible images?

I would love to do these one day and do you have to fill the cartriges with paste colours???

Any info would be appreciated.

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tiggy2 Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 1:18pm
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You do need a dedicated printer and special ink cartridges. I purchased my cartridges and frosting sheets from www.kopykake.com. They also have a list of printers that they support. HTH

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deb12g Posted 23 Feb 2007 , 5:31pm
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I also have an Epson printer, and use Kopycake. It has to be a dedicated printer. I use edible images fairly often. It's well worth having your own printer, sheets, etc. I have to drive 30 miles to have one done. It's much more economical to have my own.

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moejoe Posted 19 Mar 2007 , 1:14pm
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I finally set up my printer last week and made my first image. I got the ink and paper from icingimages.com. I have the Canon ip6000d printer and it takes 6 cartridges. I got the starter set with 6 inks, 6 cleaning cartridges and 3 different sets os paper. After I made the image I put the cleaner set into the printer. This way the ink wont get clogged . I also downloaded a program off line. I read it here on one of the posts. It was called edible artist.
https://www.deco.uk.com/content/view/42/87/. The best part it is a free program.

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