Printing on edible paper can be a little bit different to printing on regular paper, but our years of experience in the edible printing industry has equipped us with all the top tips to produce the best quality edible prints! We've put together this handy guide of tips and recommendations to help you get started with how to print onto Icing Sheets.
Loading Icing Sheets into an Edible Printer
- It's recommended to feed edible icing sheets into the REAR FEED of an edible printer. This is because icing sheets may become damaged or even cause a jam if the cassette tray is used. All models of Edible Printers sold by EPS have rear feed tray, which is one of the reasons we've carefully selected these models for edible printing.
- Feed Icing Sheets with the clear plastic strip edge pointing downwards so it travels through the printer first. The icing side of the sheet should be facing you.
- Only feed ONE ICING SHEET AT A TIME into the rear feed tray of an edible printer.
Best Printer Settings for Printing on Icing Sheets
All edible printers sold by EPS have excellent print resolution, but the settings you choose when printing on icing sheets can impact the print quality too. It is important to test the various print settings available for your specific printer in order to maximise your image quality.
How to Change the Print Settings
When printing your images or document, the print window will appear. Depending on the programme and device you are printing from, there should be an option to select or open the ‘Media & Quality’ settings.
Media Type
- For icing sheets we recommend using ‘envelope’ as the media type, this slightly raises the rollers to accommodate for the thickness of the icing sheet.
- Other media type options which work well with icing sheets are ‘paper’ or ‘photo’, selecting these options can alter the image quality and colours slightly. If you prefer to use these options rather than envelope, it is important to ensure you have switched the ‘Prevent Abrasion’ setting ON either directly on the device settings using the display screen on your printer, or within the printer driver settings via your computer/device.
- Some applications may have a wider variety of media types to choose from, it can sometimes take a bit of trial and error to find the best combination of print settings you prefer, and this may alter depending on the type of image you are printing or onto what type of edible paper too.
Print Quality
- The better the print quality selected in your print settings, the better quality the image will appear when printed. However, choosing a higher print quality uses more ink to print the same image, and does slow the printer down. So you may want to experiment between ‘draft/normal’ and ‘best’ quality to find the optimal image quality, print time and ink used to suit your needs.
- If you need to print images quickly and allow for less dry time, the ‘draft/normal’ setting should be adequate.
Make sure you choose good quality icing sheets, and edible inks such as those available from Edible Print Supplies. Not all icing sheets achieve the same high definition print finish and EPS edible inks are specially formulated to mimic the colours achieved with regular inks as closely as possible.
If you have any further questions about printing on icing sheets, you can email our friendly team on sales@edibleprintsupplies.co.uk and we would be happy to help! We also share lots of useful help and advice on our social media pages so don't forget to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.
