Hi Cakers!!

I am posting this in the hopes it will help someone that is having edible printer issues. I have a dear friend that wanted me to do a Snow White cake for her daughter. I was excited about this!! I had an idea in mind that included two edible images. I went to go print Snow White and to my surprise she looked awful. It was faded and the black was now a light gray? WTF? Through the amazing help of Debbie from icingimages.com I purchased a Steam Cleaner. Received it in a few days and I steamed the crap out of my Printer Head. No joke when I say that I had to refill the steamer 3 TIMES! By the end of the third refill no more ink was coming out.

Inserted the Printer head back in the printer and printed a nozzle check. Here we are again! Now it is not printing the black and all colors are a faded pink. The directions from the Steamer say that it might take a few nozzle checks to print correctly. Well, I lost count. All I know is that I had 23 PAGES of nozzles checks. I had to do about 5 regular and deep cleaning from my printer properties. By page 19 the colors were staring to come back.

If someone reading this is having issues with their printer, I strongly recommend a steamer. It really has helped me out so much. In addition, Debbie recommends printing something at least once a week to avoid clogs. I have included a link to my Snow White cake to show how clear it came out. It really is printing better than day 1.

HTH!!!

Thanks,

Michael
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1804087.html

don't have a printer but wanted to say your cake is beautiful!

I guess I should not assume everyone knows what a Edible printer is. For those who are wondering, it is just a regular everyday printer that is dedicated for cakes only. You purchase ink that is filled with food coloring and print away.

I bought mine from Amazon.com

HTH


Michael

Do you mind sharing what kind of printer you have? I am thinking of getting one, but don't know alot about the different brands/models.

I just wanted to comment that I had a similar problem with my edible printer a few weeks ago. But in my case, it happened when I added new ink and the prints were coming out just like you describe them I also did many (lost count of how many) nossle checks and wasted a lot of ink. And guess what? at one point I walked away for about 2 hours and when I came back I check again and the prints came out perfect!!!! so I'm guessing that the ink needed to settle....(maybe?)

BTW, I have an Epson printer and order my ink from Kopycake

I don't have an edible image printer either, but would LOVE to have one! ) *wiping drool off my chin* Not in the budget right now. Just wanted to say that the Cinderella cake is beautiful!

I have a Canon ip4600 and had/have similar issues. I think it has something to do with the chips on the ink tanks. I had tanks replaced by Canon (so I could get new chips) and got replacement tanks from Kopykakes. It is still super fussy though. I reinstalled the software which seemed to help. Guess I could buy a more expensive printer but I have $75 worth of new ink so that'll have to wait.

I have an IP4600 and use icing images. I do have some trouble when I do not use it often, but after a cpuple of head cleaning it works great. Also sometimes I take the cartridges out and poke the hole where the ink comes out with a toothpick and it helps get the ink flowing.

Haymeli...

I have done something similar as well. I used Q-tips and cleaned the ports. It has worked.

I am sold on icingimages.com I am curious if anyone has purchased their ink before. I currently have KopyKake ink and almost out.

Thoughts?

Michael

Beautiful cake!

I highly recommend the ink from icing images over kopykake. I've been using the gold label inks they have and they are far superior.

I feel your pain about fixing clogs and colors not printing. When I run out of my kopykake ink, I'm definitely going to order from Icing Images. I have a Canon ip3600. I do print every few days just to keep ink moving along.

Thanks for the learning experience!

Your cake is amazing!

I had brand new full cartridges and my computer kept saying that my black tank was empty. Didn't matter which tank was inserted, computer would not reconize it. It was clearly not empty or clogged because it was brand new.

I did not buy tanks without chips, just got new tanks directly from Canon so I could replace the corrupted chips. Now that chips have been replaced, computer recognizes full tanks.

I do still have problems getting the black to print fully. Repeated head cleaning, etc. only seems to drain the tanks.

Sorry to necro post, but I have an Epson NX510 and it's nothing but trouble.It printed ok at first but quickly ran out of ink.Ordered a refill kit from the same ebay seller that sold me the printer.I've done more head cleanings and nozzles checks than I can count.I still have missing segments.I can print pictures, but they have lines and just look terrible.The seller has been very helpful, but so far nothing has worked.I think I may take this printer out back and shoot it.

I spoke to one of my friendly competitors who recently took on a bunch of those printers and is telling me he is having nothing but problems. THis guy is very knowledgeable and is ready to just chuck all the nx510s out the window. Sometimes you may want to cut your losses. Next time, I would recommend canon.

Bethasd: I know this is part of an old post, but purchasing the cartridges and then adding the chips seems rather expensive. DId you ever get your problems resolved? If not, give us a call, we may carry the prechipped cartrdiges for you or be able to give you some tips.

Best of luck to you both

Can you return it or use it for non edible printing?

No problem, I am always here to answer any questions.

I'm going out to purchase a steamer to clean my printer. I bought new cartridges because my yellow keeps getting contaminated with either the blue or black and keeps turning a greenish color.....it's happened twice now. Any suggestions as to what is going on?
I have the Canon ip3600.

Make sure you do not take your cartridges out unless absolutely necessary. When taking cartrdiges out, make sure you always start with the yellow and be sure that that is the first cartridge to go back in. Why are you steaming your printer? You only need that if you get a clog. Before you do that, run 1 deep cleaning and then a nozzle check to see if the yellow clears up.

Thanks, but I have not taken out my cartridges until that happened. Last time I printed, the colors were very dull and not sharp. I noticed that the yellow (new one) was colored again. I have done many deep cleans....figured I would try cleaning the head too.
The first time the yellow got contaminated, I noticed black had leaked from somewhere, but couldn't tell where. It was on the outside of the cartridge....I had not taken them out before that) Once the yellow is looking green again, wouldn't I have to replace it again? Isn't that why the images are coming out dull, off color and awful looking? I have the gold labels too. I'm just so frustrated.....

Do you refill?

I did finally get mine to print something acceptable.Only problem is once it did it had some black smudges. So I haven't thrown it out the window yet, but that doesn't mean it won't happen at some point.I'm glad I bought a refill kit for $50 instead of new color cartridges for $60.I've used about half of all the refill colors trying to get this thing working.It does seem to work better with higher resolution pics.The lower resolution pics tend to have lines in them.

Jess: It may be the printer settings. Try changing the printer paper setting to matte. See if that helps