Controlling Ingredient Capsule Bay Assignments

Foodini will automatically indicate the ingredient assignments for each capsule bay for prints.

The order of the ingredients on the dish screen is not necessarily the order that Foodini will automatically assign ingredients in capsule bays. 

For example, Foodini automatically and randomly assigns the ingredients for this print in this order:

However, sometimes you may want to control what ingredient goes in each capsule bay. For example, a bakery printing a lot of different multicolor icing designs on cookies. For ease of operation they always want to put red icing in capsule bay 1, yellow in capsule bay 2, and so on. 

To control the order which ingredient goes in each capsule bay, rename the ingredients in numerical order:

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