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Broad areas of ink in large stamps tend to mottle.
We will send a proof sheet with your stamp to scale when printed and quote price back to you during the next working day. If you haven’t received an email within 48 working hours please check your SPAM/JUNK as they sometimes end up in spam box.
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A Rocker stamp is available in all sorts of shapes and sizes to suit your needs. These stamps are priced by their size, width x height. Enter your ideal size and we can give you a price. They can be made to the millimetre size as you need them. A rocker stamp is excellent for marking paper bags.
Their large size and lower cost at large sizes is ideal to get your brand on shopping bags. This is the ideal paper bag stamp. For large prints like wedding invitation printing these can be super good stamps.
Note: It is important to identify the surface and match the correct ink type requirements for varied surfaces.
Any shape is possible, we cut and then mould the base plate to your requirement. Use your image or text or have both image and text. Only your imagination is the limit here. For a circle shape stamp the height of the ink pad will limit the size. Think about the maximum diameter on the various ink pad sizes as 63mm, 83mm, 150mm and 230mm maximum on the really large ink pad.
Send us your image as a vector file or pdf vector image file preferably as these work better generally in our engraving machine.
These stamps are calculated and priced by their size Width x Height mm of the final stamp size.
We will advise once proofed what the final price will be.
From $148.00 up to $222.00 at 153 x 83mm maximum size in a 160 x 90mm stamp ink pad.
Or for the huge and expensive 310 x 240mm massive ink pad the stamp at maximum size of A4 rubber is 291 x 204mm is $458.00.
Somewhere in between these extremes would be your custom stamp.
Our hand stamps are very basic. Function is their purpose rather than beauty. Although these do look cool. Generally these were introduced for very large stamping requirements. The handle is 10mm thick laser cut acrylic with support blocks to enable a greater surface area to glue it to the base plate.
Then a 6mm thick casted acrylic base plate laser cut to the shape of the stamp image is heat bent and glued to the handle.
Onto the curved base plate is fixed the laser engraved rubber die. This rubber is a special rubber which is thicker and softer. This allows better transfer of ink on this softer surface as generally these massive stamps have broader areas of ink applied in one area. Please note that the broad areas of ink with a stamp generally mottle. The thicker rubber also allows much deeper engraving to reduce the chance of the background rubber marking the paper unnecessarily.
The rubber sheets we engrave with the laser engraver are A4 sheet size 210 x 297mm and, while enormous, is possible in this style of stamp.
The larger the stamp the harder it is to get a quality stamp from.
The size of a hand stamp is governed by the size of ink pad you have. If you can’t ink it up it has no value as a stamp.
The stamp needs to be around 7mm in size less than the size of your ink pad to allow the base plate plus moving the stamp to ink up. The more space you have the easier to get a few places to rock the stamp around in the ink.
The most common pad size is 110 x 70mm and a bit small for a custom rocker stamp. This would mean a 103 x 63mm maximum size of stamp. These can be made quite easily on our custom hand stamp with a flat base plate.
Next up is the 160 x 90mm stamp pad which you can get a maximum of 153 x 83mm for the stamp.
If you are feeling rich then the really large one is the largest possible from a sheet of A4 rubber at 291 x 206mm. Be careful with these as the larger the stamp is the harder it is to get a quality print from. The big rule is slow down and pay attention to what you are doing and do not twist the stamp while rolling.
The first stage is to finalize a proof of the stamp. If you supply a image file in vector or pdf form and it needs no changes the proof is completed the next working day.
Once you approve the proof for manufacture the stamp components are made within 24 hours. Sometimes and extra day is added if the glue has had insufficient time to set before packing for the courier pick up. We do not want your fantastic stamp arriving in pieces! That is definitely not the customer experience we are striving for.
Once you pay for the order it is assembled and dispatched.
Then the completed stamp is put on the next courier pick up which is generally 3:00pm weekdays.
So all up 3 working days from inquiry to stamping can be achieved, but allow 4.
The only process outside of our control is the courier. Some times of the year they are immensely busy and delivery time can move out from next working day to more than one day especially around Christmas time.
The standard ink is water based and works well with the stamps on matt paper or cardboard. Generally in stock are Trodat, Shiny and Colop brand of ink pads.
The standard colours are:
You can also use the alcohol based ink for fast drying situations on glossy paper, plastic etc, even freezer inks. The ink colour range is reduced for these special purpose inks.
The most common ink pads that are used are the 110 x 70mm SP3F9 or the 160 x 90mm Colop Micro-3
See the full range of stamp pads here.
Don’t panic! Don’t buy a new ink pad unless the surface of the pad is fury or damaged.
All the ink pads can be topped up with ink at any time. If you like a good solid ink mark this top up can be more regular.
Please use the brand of stamp ink for the stamp ink pad you have. You can shop for the ink bottles HERE.
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