Patent ID: 7128938

Claim:
A method of decorating an iced bake good with a color image comprising: obtaining a carrier with a generally flat piece of edible web mounted over at least a portion of one face thereof; placing the carrier with the edible web in position to be carried through an ink-jet based reproducer mechanism, the ink-jet reproducer mechanism having edible inks and a non-tortuous path along which the carrier is to be transported without any portion of the edible web mounted thereon overlapping any other portion of the edible web, without any tortuous bends and without substantially heating the edible web; selecting a color image; placing the selected color image on a glass sheet; after placing the carrier and selected color image, activating a single button to cause the following to automatically occur without activation of any further buttons by an operator: scanning the selected color image through the glass sheet; transporting the carrier with the edible web thereon along the non-tortuous path; and reproducing the color image scanned though the glass sheet onto the edible web with the edible inks as it passes along the non-tortuous path; removing the carrier with the edible web having the reproduced image from the ink-jet reproducer mechanism; removing the edible web with the reproduced image from the carrier; and placing the edible web on to said iced baked good with the reproduced image visible thereon.