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Sooner or later you'll have to replace your edible ink cartridges after warning message is displayed on your edible printer.

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Replacing or removing CC7 and CC10 Canon Edible Printer print head

History of wafer paper in cake decoration industry .

If you updated your Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 in some cases after starting program up you can get Run Time Error message . This particular message is warning that you didn't install all necessary windows drivers to run program smoothly on new platform . Same issue can happen on some new laptops or PC that run only basic version of Microsoft Windows 10 . However every Windows 10 is built in old versions drivers in its platform and changing program settings will enable Print a Cake to run in Windows 10 without any issues.

We have lot of questions type " should I use wafer paper or icing sheets for my cake " . Usual answer is you can use both .... however cake decorated with printed wafer paper sheet will taste different depending which rice paper has been used than cake decorated with edible image printed on frosting sheet.

Find edible ink cartridges you need for your edible printer in seconds . Just use our Edible Ink Finder located at HOME page

Every cake decorator who use edible printer will eventually start thinking about refilling your existing carts with edible ink .
In most cases plug and play full ink set can cost from $30 to $60 depending on printer brand , model and manufacturer .
High quality branded edible ink cartridges are generally little more expensive than generics therefore everyone look for alternatives .

Here is interesting approach and creative solution when printing on 2" circle Frostino Sheets . Lady C was behind this creative solution

If the values on the Calibration Values Chart are not aligning image to the circles properly , you might need to adjust them manually by increasing or decreasing the X and Y values.

We got them first! NEW 270/271 XL Canon edible inks for latest Canon printers.

Runtime errors can occur if you are running two software programs that aren't compatible, if your computer has memory problems, or if the computer has been infected with malicious software. If a runtime error keeps occurring, follow these steps:

 Canon printers originally weren't built for edible printing on icing sheets,

they are made with very tiny rollers that you can see if you look closely at the upper ceiling inside the output area. They look like small white or black plastic rollers and these little devils are what press onto your icing sheets and leave annoying marks.

Here is few quick tips :

.Print Settings

Change settings to standard quality printing and paper type to plain ...ink is not drying fast enough , raise temperature in room if possible . Try to avoid printing images with dark colors or leave them to be printed last .

.Widen the clearance between the sheet and the rollers

Selecting the ‘Prevent paper abrasion’ setting in the printer settings will widen the clearance between the Print Head and the loaded paper, meaning that the pins won’t roll onto the icing sheet so closely.

To do this, assuming you are using a Canon (a brand we recommend for icing printing due to their removable print heads), click on Printer Properties > Maintenance > Custom Settings > and tick ‘Prevent Printer Abrasion’. Incidentally, changing the ‘ink drying wait time’ won’t help this – this is simply the time the printer waits between each print.

. Dry out paper

If it is humid conditions, the icing sheet can take longer to absorb the ink, meaning that the drying ink can roll onto the sheet. In this  situation it helps to dry out the sheet