Patent ID: 7884953

Claim:
A system for enabling a consumer to submit custom image data for printing of a custom image directly on a non-planar surface of each one of a plurality of sugar shell candies or jellybeans comprising: a computer, adapted to communicate with a consumer's computer and enable the consumer's computer to communicate custom image data over a network; a drop-on-demand ink jet printer having a reservoir for holding dispersed pigmented inks which is integrated with a print head and adapted to receive the custom image data from the computer and print directly on a non-planar surface of each one of said plurality of sugar shell candies or jellybeans a high quality image having a resolution greater than 200 dpi that corresponds to the received custom image data in the manufacture of personalized sugar shell candies or jellybeans; and a conveyor for holding and conveying said plurality of sugar shell candies or jellybeans transiently past a print head at an angle perpendicular to the print head of the ink jet printer during printing in a single pass to obtain a printed image having resolution greater than 200 dpi.