Edible_Ink_Printing

It's very popular these days to have photos printed on special sugar paper or rice paper using edible ink. We have special equipment for this and can prepare and print your family photos or other images for that special occasion.
We can accept digital photos in most PC formats, including jpg, bmp, tif, pdf, and photos embedded in Word documents. Please be aware that some images, especially images from the Internet, may not always be a high enough quality to enlarge - see example on the right. If you need a large print, please make sure that the file you send us is large enough. Small png files sent from mobiles are often far too low resolution for printing unless they are just for a small logo. 500Kb-1Mb is a rough guide for an A5 size print. If you are sending from a mobile, zoom in first to see what the picture looks like when enlarged.

Edible ink is not the same as a dye, and colours viewed on different screens will often have a different hue. Whilst we always do our best, we cannot guarantee to match colours. We have found purple the hardest to reproduce.

If you are sending us a pdf with the images all late out as required, please make sure that the paper size is A4, not American Letter size, and that you have allowed for the margins as mentioned on the right. The same applies to Powerpoint slides - make sure the page setup is A4, as PP can have very non-standard page dimensions!

We can also scan in your printed photos, and for cupcakes we can cut the 'paper' into circles or print onto pre-made circles if required. On fondant sugar paper we can fit 15 disks of 2" and 20 disks of 1.75" on each A4 sheet; on rice paper/card we can usually fit 16 x 2" and 24 x 1.75" because the margins are smaller.

Please try to give at least 24 hours notice for sugar printing; more if the images require altering or setting up.

Cutting Out
We can cut out your circular cupcake toppers of 1.75" (4.45cm) and 2" (5.1cm) at a charge of £1 per sheet.

Types of edible 'paper'
Fondant sugar paper is the most popular. This is suitable for small or large prints for cupcakes or larger cakes up to a maximum size of A4. (8.27x11.69 inches or 210x297mm) However, please see note about margins on the right.

Standard rice paper is inexpensive but very thin and best suited to cupcake toppers. Being thin it is also quite transparent.

Rice card. This is almost twice is thick as the standard rice paper and so is less transparent. It also shows a slightly higher quality image than standard, though not as good as fondant. We now almost always use this in preference to standard rice paper.

Pricing guide for Edible Ink Printing

Sizes are 'up to' A5/A4. Please note, this is a guide as orders vary considerably in complexity, but discounts are given for multiple identical sheets and repeat orders. We will always try to fit as many images on a sheet as possible but please bear in mind that, for example, 2 A5 images will not fit on an A4 sheet because of the margins required. (See diagrams on the right)

Images supplied ready to print as per our guidelines or only needing resizing of 1 or 2 images:
A5/A4        Standard rice paper (0.35mm) £2.50 / £3.00
A5/A4        Rice card (0.65mm)                  £3.00 / £3.50
A5/A4        Fondant sugar paper                £4.00 / £4.50

Images needing digital manipulation (eg. cropping, copying and/or setting out of several different images, etc.)
A5/A4        Standard rice paper (0.35mm) £4.00 / £4.50
A5/A4        Rice card (0.65mm)                  £4.50 / £5.00
A5/A4        Fondant sugar paper                £5.50 / £6.00

Images needing more digital manipulation (eg. sharpening, exposure & colour enhancing, assembling multiple images, scanning in physical prints, getting easy-to-find images from the Internet etc.)
A5/A4        Standard rice paper (0.35mm) £7.00 / £7.50
A5/A4        Rice card (0.65mm)                  £7.50 / £8.00
A5/A4        Fondant sugar paper                £8.50 / £9.00

Images needing substantial digital manipulation (eg., more enhancing, colour changing, 'photoshopping', researching images from the Internet etc.)
A5/A4        Standard rice paper (0.35mm) £10.00 / £10.50
A5/A4        Rice card (0.65mm)                  £10.50 / £11.00
A5/A4        Fondant sugar paper                £11.50 / £12.00

For collages and other creative photos/artwork: please ask for a quote.