The deco sheets work great on a w hite chocolate background, but not so much on dark backgrounds. color intensity is an issue the darker your background gets.

Gracie,
Thanks for those links. The PCB site looks very interesting. I found several other continental websites by typing feuilles de transfert au chocolat (chocolat transfer sheets in French!) into Google but haven’t looked at them all yet.
I hadn’t considered silk screen printing – I’ve never heard of it! It seems to be the use of stencils as far I can see. I’ve checked a few websites but can’t find any which relate to chocolate. Have you any more info?

Maybe JC could help you out with the details on the screen printing, but basically, as you say, you create your own custom template or stencil and then use it to create your transfer sheets on acetate (rather than directly onto the chocolate).
I’ll pop that French search into Google too to check out the competition. I’ve found PCB good if you’re ordering items from the website, but had several long delays with a custom transfer order (despite being near fluent in French!)They seem to be redirecting UK customers to Ritter who are acting as their agent, and although delivery is quicker, they don’t hold all the range and have consistently failed to provide me with up to date catalogues. Still, best not turn this into a rant!Let us know how you get on.

This is a very late follow-up to my inquiry above.
Has anyone any experience of printing chocolate transfers by means of an ordinary inkjet printer, special edible ink (cocoa butter?) cartridges and blank transfer sheets? Is this possible?

Hello Redstar, thanks for that but I’ve already looked into silk screens and the process seems a little too involved. I really want to be able to design my own patterns on an ordinary PC in a suitable application e.g. Word/Publisher? and print it by means of a suitable inkjet cartridge and standard printer onto a blank acetate sheet – A4 or smaller. I could, as jc above suggests, get someone like PCB to produce my designs but this would be impractical as I would only want a few.

I contacted Slattery’s in Manchester (thanks Les!) and Laura there has given me full details of how it can be done and whom to contact. This will be very useful as I will be able to make own designs using MS Publisher or other standard publishing programmes and print onto A4 sheets treated with cocoa butter by means of an edible inkjet cartridge.
I’d still be interested to hear from anyone who uses this technique and can give me its pros & cons.
Top marks to Slattery’s.