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Cake printouts. It's possible to convert an old printer that has been used for regular printing jobs as a printer for edible ink. All that you need to do is to clean the printer, especially the printer head, thoroughly to remove all traces of the regular ink that was once used with it.

There are two brands of printers out on the market that have readily available edible ink cartridges for birthday cake 's edible paper.

These inks are not just any old ink. A great deal of care, cleanliness and formulation goes into the making of edible inks. Plain old food coloring injected in your old inject cartridge won't work, not to mention be safe!

Each printer has a specific requirement for the cartridges needed. Canon printers can get by with a black cartridge and a color cartridge. This might be fine if you are doing some very basic, low volume printing but remember the single color cartridges will not give you as much print output as individual tanks will.

Something else to consider is just how many prints are you going to make? Is this going to blossom into a little side business or do you plan to just print out one or two for your son's birthday?...

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