FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Which food products are printable?
32 – that’s the current number of different food products we have successfully printed already. They belong to key food categories as confectionary, bakery, dairy, meat, fruit & vegetable products. You see, nearly every food product of our daily life may be printed. More info you’ll find within our food worlds or in the news area.
Do the printed Bocusini food products taste different than their conventional food?
In our understanding, the quality of the printable food products developed is essentially linked to taste and appearance. Therefore, all efforts of our food expert team (chefs, confectioners and chocolatiers, as well as food and nutritional scientists) are focussed on high quality food recipes with an extraordinary taste.
Is Bocusini for everybody?
Yes! No matter if star cook, confectioner, chocolatier or even creative end user: just take the plug & play food printing system Bocusini and you will get a rapid access to the world of food printing. After initial experiences, start creating your own recipes, printable objects and complete meals and share them with the rest of the world.
Which knowledge will I need for successful 3D food printing with Bocusini?
Bocusini has been developed as plug & play 3D food printing system. If we have done a good job and supposed you’ll take the ready to use Bocusini cartridges, you should be able to perform your first successful food print with the out of the box system within 30 min without any prior knowledge. Share your own experience with us :-).
How long will a Bocusini food print take?
The food printing period needed for one object is very much depending on the object size, the complexity and the resolution of the print. According to our experience, the printing of most edible objects has taken us from less than one minute up to 15 minutes.
When will I be able to get my first own Bocusini food printing system?
From the 12th May you’ll get the unique chance to acquire your own Bocusini on Kickstarter. Don’t hesitate too long, there will be some attractive early bird options available.
What is the advantage of taking prefilled food cartridges?
All our Bocusini food cartridges are based on natural food products. You are free to fill the cartridges either with your own food creations or take the Bocusini cartridges prefilled by us for your convenience.
Why food printing?
High quality food is more and more becoming a surprising impression for all senses. So, if you are a star cook, confectioner, chocolatier or even creative end user, take Bocusini as creative tool for unforgettable food creations to surprise your guests, friends or family. The ready to use food cartridges we provide are simple plug & play and fail-safe, because they are specially optimised for food printing. In addition, we will also deliver the perfect printing conditions and some interesting printable food objects to you.
Why has the Bocusini food printing head to be very precisely heated?
Most printable food products like chocolate, chewing gum, marzipan, fondant or jelly may only be printed at temperatures higher than room temperature. In addition, the reliable compliance of the printing temperature is essential for high quality food prints.
I already own a 3D printer, do I have to buy another one for food printing?
We decided also to offer our food printing head as retrofit kit, which may be mounted on different available 3D printers in substitution of the plastic extruder. We hope for your understanding, that we will only be able to deliver food printing adopted firmware and hardware kits for open source platforms. Presently, these are Ultimaker 2, Printrbot simple and Printrbot simple metal.