Kitty......So happy to hear you got your printer and all accessories!! Have fun! I know I plan to!

Dee..........yes, it is compatible with Vista. I just set mine up last week and it is the CX8400.

Teekakes. When are we going to see an E.I. cake ?

I don't know when I will do one for sure. I may use it for parts of my grandsons birthday cake though. He wants a race car cake.........one like those NASCAR Funny cars. Sure hope it comes out recognizable as a car!

i have a shower cake coming up that has about 12 lines of text... goign to use my machine to print it and hand do the rest. hope i can match the sage greens!

Edible Images I can see where this could be a hot item and help to really personalize. After reading all the post I have really got the can't live without really bad. Now to just get hubby to see that the investment in this economy would be worth it.

So, am I figuring correctly...Printer $60, Ink $72 & frosting sheets $28 = $160 to get started? Or are there other things I need before beginning?

Nickshalfpint- How long have you had your NX400? Does it work well (any clogging problems), and does it drink the ink like crazy? I'm trying to find one that I don't have to order online, as we just had some fraudulent activity through our Paypal acct. where someone hacked it somehow and spent $1600 out of our bank acct. that was linked to it. I finally got it all back, but needless to say, I'm a bit paranoid right now. I did see the NX400 @ Staples... I believe it was for $100. Is it worth it? Thanks for any advice you can give me!


Edited to add: I also saw the NX300 somewhere for $60 with an instant rebate... does anyone know what the difference is?

Yomomma.. Your right on, thats all you need !
They really are fun to have as a cake/cookie toy!

Here's a link to the software I use for edible images http://www.deco.uk.com/content/view/101/137/ You can download it for free and you don't need credits to use it. I think it's much easier to use the the one from kopykake. It is compatible with vista.

woooo hooo tiggy 2! headed there right now! i have kopykakes software but it feels like a 5th grader made it.

No offense to kopykake but I don't like their software at all.

Don't mean to jump in but interesting topic what's better espon of the other one? Just curious becuse last time this topic went about some people were able to find the CX8400 for $29 at Target, just hoping I will too.

OK ALL!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I just printed this off my $30 (ebay) epson workforce 30 printer... in about 3 seconds per sheet! It is loud but crazy fast!

I printed several sheets of calligraphy text and will "cut and paste" them on to the final fondant covered cake. It is supposed to be just like the invitation, there is NO WAY i could have piped this all this well

From what I've read the canon has a lot problems with the head clogging. I can only speak for the epson I have and I love it.

kopykake ink cartridges and icing sheets. the initial cartridges were something like $78 but then you can buy refills.

Kitty.........Your printer did an awesome job for you!! Looks great!!

Tiggy2..........thanks so much for the link to DECO! I went there and downloaded after seeing your post yesterday. I played entirely tooooooo long! It seems to be an excellent program. Thank you for sharing that link with us!!

Ok, I posted in How Do I...so now I see these postings so here I go again.
I bought 2 camera's at Ritz camera's, they each came with a FREE PRINTER!!! woo hoo...anywho, then I find out I can use either one for my cakes and they were free *dancing* So now for the question:

Which is best and why?

Epson CX 7800 does all
Cannon PIXMA iP6310D does all

OK, HIT ME WITH IT!!!

i love the deco program too! i used it for the pages i printed! much better than kopykake's software.

You're welcome Teekakes and kakesbykitty, glad you like the software. I like it much better then kopykake's and think it's much easier to use. And the best part is you don't need credits to use it. kakesbykitty, did you figure out how to change the font size?

i figured out the font size, just can't put a send text box in yet.

Anyone know about the lexmark brand printers? Can these be used? Thx

Or any luck with any other printer Dell, Lexmark, Canon or just any other printer too? Anybody ahve any luck with any of those please tell. Thanks!

The only ones I know of that you can get edible ink cartridges for are epson and canon and only certain models of those. Kopykake has a list of printers they sell cartridges for.

I am with Tiggy on the printer knowledge................what she said is all I know as well. Do go to the KopyKake website and you will find a complete list of EI printers.

Do you have a preference of Kopykake over Icing Images? If so, why? I see that II only carries product for Canon, but they are a little cheaper than KK.