Edible Printing - Just Had To Share
Decorating By tdybear1978 Updated 17 Apr 2008 , 3:54am by vickinc
Hey everyone, I have been printing edible images for quite a few years now and I have always used kopykake ink and products. I have also always had much problems with things like clogging in my printhead and just a mess of problems concerning the ink, almost every single time I would go to print a picture I would end up having to run a cleaning and test page (which in itself uses a lot of the ink, which is already over priced haha). A good friend of mine said that I should really start using photofrost and she has about 90% less problems with it. So I got some and I have now been using it for over a month and have not had 1 problem at all with any clogging. I have not had to run 1 printhead clean or anything. I personally did not like the photofrost paper but the ink is AMAZING! Just thought that I would share with others who may be interested. www.photofrost.com
Thanks for the tip! What printer do you have?
Yes, I'd like to know that, too. Also, what's the difference in cost?
I have a canon I550, yes it is an older model but it has worked excellent for me. For my ink it was very comparable in price, I think maybe a couple of dollars more, but way worth it when I take into account all the kopykake ink I was trying to clean out the clogs from my printhead haha
i have the same printer and have had nothing but problems with the kopykake cartridges. I have all but given up, since the requests are few and far between to use the edible images, so by the time i want to use the printer, it's all clogged and i go through more ink just trying to unclog it. Maybe I'll give photofrost a try.
I was trying to compare the cartridges on that site with the printers, and I don't see cartridges that are compatible with the newer printers. I wish these websites would make it easier to find a matching printer! LOL
the paper is extremely thin, I know you want it to be thin and everything but it was VERY difficult to get it off of the backing.
Chrisl121070 - if you give them a call she can tell you very quickly, I had a hard time finding mine on there also and she was able to tell me at the snap of a finger 
If you put your edible image in the freezer for a couple of minutes, the paper backing will come off ever so much easier.
I tried that with the photofrost paper and it helped but it softened up a lot faster then the kopykake paper did
I guess I have only used the Kopykake sheets, they are kind of thick, so probably easier to handle. I was going to try the thinner sheets, but if you still have a problem after freezing, I think I will stick with what I know works. I would hate to print out a pic and have it tear!! 
with it being so thin once you take it out of the freezer the heat from your hands melts it almost immediatly, have to move very quickly
I have ALWAYS had to take the inks out and then take out the printhead and wash it under hot water and I spray it with the sprayer and then let it soak for a long time in hot soapy water, then take out and rinse off again (hoping that it will help to soften the clog) and then I put everything back together again and run a couple of tests and hope it works, if not then repeat the whole process again. Now this is the problem that i have had with the kopykake inks, since I have had the photofrost inks I have not had one problem (about 2 months now) and it is so nice not having to deal with that mess
I will definately do this... I was out of a couple of inks so I ordered and replaced the cartridges... It had been some time since I had printed one and found I have a clogged head. I printed for a long time with no problems, I should have taken out the cartridges after some time went by, but laziness set in and I forgot about it. Now I have a mess.
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