On 18 Oct 2003 02:34:54 -0700, Martin wrote:
=>> what do you put it on to eat with ??
=>
=>Cakes and confectionary items - to be sold in major high street
=>supermarket chains mainly in UK. Therefore the ink must be edible and
=>meet EEC food regulations.
=>
=>I have now found a source for white edible inks as well as black,
=>cyan, magenta and yellow, but still searching for gold and silver
=>edible inks. Any ideas?
=>
=>TIA
Those round sprinkly things for cakes and cookies come in
gold and silver as well as other colours - their coating is
edible, so that might be a good place to start. But I
suspect you're facing some major R&D to get metallic inks
to work with an inkjet, let alone edible ones. For one
thing, gold and silver inks and paints have metal particles
in them. How to get a metal dust small enough and dispersed
enough that the ink would pass through the jets of an ink
jet? Difficult.
OTOH, a laser printer uses toner, so
metallic laser printing would be much easier to do. (I used
to edit and produce a newsletter, back in letter press
days, and learned a lot about printing. I occasionally
wander into the local printshop to find out the latest, so
my comments are based on some knowledge, albeit not highly
expert.)
HTH&GL. I hope you do trigger R&D in this area - metallic
colours from an inkjet would be real cool!
