Do you know how many ways to make personalized chocolate? Since many customers send us emails asking how to print on chocolate, so we decide to write an article to share the latest technology to custom printed chocolate.
As we know, there are 3 main ways to make branded chocolate as below:
Firstly, the tradition way is to print on chocolate transfer sheets. How they print on chocolate transfer sheets? As we know, they’re using silk screen printing with a mixture of cocoa butter and FDA approved food coloring. Please click to see how to use chocolate transfer sheets.
Secondly, some home bakers use Epson or Canon office printer with edible inks to print on icing sheet or frosting. They place the printed images on the top of chocolate surface.
Thirdly, it’s the newest digital printing technology to make personalized chocolate. All what you need are a flatbed chocolate printer & edible inks.Since there are no edible white inks on the market, so the edible ink printer can only directly print on white or milk chocolates. If you want to print on dark chocolate, you should spray cocoa butter for coating the dark chocolate before printing. Here is a personalized chocolate printed by our food printer.
personalized chocolate
Compare these 3 ways, chocolate transfer sheets are for mass production, easy to use, but the price is a little bit expensive. The chocolate icing sheets are easy to print & convenient to use, but it will affect the taste of chocolate.The chocolate printer can directly print on chocolates and other food items easily and won’t change the original taste of food. So we believe that edible ink food printer will be the future of food decoration.
If you’re interested to know more about our chocolate printer, please kindly send us emails with your questions!
