Personalization is becoming increasingly important in the restaurant/catering industries as consumers seek out unique, customized experiences. To stay current, think outside the oven. Edible ink printing allows foodservice businesses to produce custom food products all while maximizing profit margins, streamlining production methods, and meeting the growing consumer demand. 

Enter Eddie – the world’s first-and-only GMP, NSF, and Kosher (Parave) certified edible image printer that prints directly onto food. From hamburger buns and french fries to cookies, candy, donuts and more, Eddie takes food to the next level and requires no hand piping, frosting sheets, or drying time.

If you need dozens or even hundreds of cookies decorated with a business logo, bride and groom’s names, celebrity’s face or any other image, it used to be a laborious job. 

Hand piping takes hours. Stenciling is equally labor-intensive. Standard inkjet printers that some people have repurposed for cookie decorating require applying royal icing first, printing images onto sugar sheets, cutting out and applying each printed design to the icing, and waiting for both the icing and the printed sheets to dry before application. 

Primera Technology’s Eddie™ edible ink printer changes that. It prints directly onto cookies, candy, biscuits and more using a carousel feeder that produces a dozen 3.5-inch items in just two minutes – all hands-free and with no need for drying time. It’s also the first and only NSF and GMP-certified printer, ensuring that the images it produces are safe for consumption.

As a result, it's been a boon for both full- and part-time cookiers who can make more money from their cookie baking and decorating businesses in less time than ever before

Caterers and hotel pastry chefs use the technology to quickly personalize baked goods for weddings, corporate meetings, and other events.

Customers need less time to fulfill orders, including party planners, publishers holding book launch events, companies launching new products and more.

Even family and consumer science teachers, who are using a curriculum created by a well-known culinary university instructor to teach students how to apply image designs, can benefit, as well as market their creations.