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Roller cleaning is part of your regular edible printing maintenance. If the paper feed rollers in your edible ink printer are dirty - have icing sheet residue, ink or paper powder is attached to them - your icing sheets may not feed properly, or you may notice marks on your icing sheets. If this is the case, you will need to clean your printer’s paper feed rollers. If feeding seems to be the issue, firstly check out our blog My Edible Icing… Read more

Dale Jackley, from Jackley's Bakehouse, has quite the tale to tell! His dream of owning his own bakery business came to fruition through a lot of hard work, but at a frightening cost to his health. Fortunately, Dale was able to recover and, also adjust his business to support a healthier work/life balance. 1. How did your sweets business or journey begin? My whole baking journey started 20 years ago as an apprentice baker at Brumby's. A… Read more

Using cleaning cartridges and following regular printer maintenance guidelines definitely can make a big difference to your edible printer’s life and its performance. So, how does using cleaning cartridges in your edible ink printer help? Edible ink is quite viscous, more so than non-edible inks. Therefore, the printer's printhead (the costliest component of your printer) can become clogged if not flushed regularly. The printhead has sever… Read more

Buying an edible ink printer needn’t be a complicated exercise in research and time. Although there are some things you do need to know to get yourself a reliable edible ink printer, they really are quite simple.What you may not know is that an edible ink printer is just an ink-jet printer which uses food-grade edible inks. This ink must be specially constructed to have the right viscosity for an inkjet printer. As with any printing, the ink is s… Read more