Edible printer for cakes.

An edible ink printer will cost you around $1500 that's about R22,500.00 and that not including the shipping costs from the USA and the lack of support. And that is way too expensive for most South Africans.

The alternative is to use a standard but modified printer like a Canon printer.
The problem with using a Canon printer for cake printing is that it voids the warranty, you get with the printer when you use other print cartridges in the printer.
Although you can fix most of the problems yourself, if you have a slightly technical knowhow, it is not ideal.

Another thing to consider is the volume you are going to print on a daily basis.
If you don't use the printer regularly (a couple of times a day) the ink will dry up in the ink cartridges.
It can be cleaned but this is time consuming and costly as you waste a lot of ink, the cartridge print head can get damaged

You are going to need a computer and internet connection, and a graphic application, and some knowledge of DTP Desktop publishing.

Your clients can be difficult, and the design work can be time consuming, which takes you away from the cake making process.

Don't let us put you off as we use a Canon printer, to print all our edible cake prints as this is the machine we use to print all our cakes for our clients.
Please take not that we replaced our machine with a new Canon cake printer every 12 - 18 month because the the quality of the print started to deteriorate with stripes on the prints.
And if this keeps happening you will have to print the cake topper again, and that's expensive.

The total setup for an A4 cake printer is around R7000, this doesn't include the DTP software or laptop computer to create the graphics with.

If you are looking for a edible prints for cakes near me (you) then you can expect to pay around R75 for an A4 cake photo printing. We offer this service in Vredenburg and Table View and Blouberg in the Western Cape.

In short,
If you are not going to be printing cakes everyday, or its a one of for a birthday cake or special occasion, don't buy a cake printer rather have someone like ourselves do it for you.
Or fill in the form below and we will send you the name of a company or person close by who can print the edible cake topper for you. Its R75 for an A4 print and R7000 just to get started.

IMPORTANT
Once you use a none original cartridge in any brand of printer including the Canon printer the warranty is void. You will nor receive support of repair from Canon.