I recently purchased a printer so that I can start doing image cakes. Was wondering where all of you get your edible ink and frosting sheets. Does Joanns carry stuff like this or can I only get this through the mail? Thank you so much for your help!!!

P.S. I got a Canon ip3500 in case you wanted to know.

I have the same one and I got my ink and my sheets on icingimages.com there where a little bit cheaper than kokykake because I got them with chip included

That is where I get mine too. They have great customer service.

I get mine from Walkers Online Sales...they are nice to do business with too.

If I already have the original ink cartridges can't I take the chip off of there and put on the cartridges w/out the chip? I'm trying to get the best price possible since this is my first time and it is basically for practice.

Thanks ladies I know I can count on you!!!

You could give icingimages a call, they can advise you about that. It might be feasible, but if it didn't work, you would be out the time and money for the w/o chip cartridges and still have to buy the with chip ones.

OK - I am new to this Printer idea - and wondering .... You can buy a - lets call it a regular printer and then buy the ink/paper and a "chip" and it becomes ...TaDa.. the image printer you can use on your cakes/cookies?
I have seen them online for 300$ or more.... but a regular printer can be $60 (on the cheap side).. so how does this work?

Please let me in on the secret ! MUCH APPRECIATED !

And correct me if I am way off -

Kammerude there are certain canon and epson printers that you can buy edible ink cartridges for. Kopykakes website has a list of them.

You can save shipping costs by buying the frosting edible sheets at Sams club They shell the full sheet pk of 24 for 27.70

Here is some stuff in PDF from KopyKake. It tells you what ink to buy with what printer. I like the Epson b/c you don't have to mess around with the chip. Plop the ink in and go! And I have let mine sit idle for months at a time, and then go to print something off, and it's perfect. No drying or anything!. Love it!!!!
http://www.kopykake.com/documents/PrinterInks-Xref.pdf

I got my printer off of ebay for $40 shipped. It is a brand new printer, never even opened the box. Absolutely great price. It should be here tomorrow. I will try Sam's club. That would be great if I could get them locally. Can you only buy the ink online?

Thanks again!!!