How to make rubber stamps: Different Procedures and Methods




Rubber stamps seem to be a very low profile technology, but for those who seriously use it, this is as important as making something originally theirs because it is one way to put something to its original owner. Engaging one-self to the rubber stamp business has never been easy because it has always been a hard thing to look for a wholesale proprietor of stamp mounts and cases. If somebody intends to get into rubber stamp business, he will not easily find a wholesaler who yields into your wishes and commands. Why? Well, because they have already settled their business to have a minimum purchase. Aside from this dilemma, you also have to be a person of good knowledge of the different methods on how to create rubber stamps so you can decide which one is best and which one is the least; which one costs a lot of money and which one is cheapest; finally which one can be easily produced and which one will entail you to work a whole lifetime before you will be able to produce the product you intend to have.

The laser engraver is considered to be the superior tools when creating high quality rubber stamps. Because this technology is very accurate, nevertheless the cost of it that is way too expensive; it can create stamps as accurate as 1000dpi. This technology works best when the rubber stamps you have to produce is of small text and contain graphics, it also works doubly fast. Because of its quality of being of high quality, this method is indeed not messy compared to other procedures of rubber stamp production. So aside from being very concise, less messy, quick, laser engravers are also advanced in the alignment technology so rubbish materials are also somehow avoided or minimized. If you intend to use laser engraver, you will also find the easiness of it because it is not very tasky – it can actually produce a hundred stamps because one square inch of rubber stamp may be produced at around one minute. No manual labor is needed, it means cutting materials scissors are not at all needed when laser engraving is the method you chose. Engraving cut lines are simultaneously done with etching, in laser engraving method, and after the process of etching, the rubber stamps, are then removed from the laser engraver and immersed in water for about 5 – 10 minutes. After cleaning the rubber, it should be wiped dry either with proper on hand towel. When this is all done, the rubber stamp you created is now ready to be left unmounted or stuck to a wood block, pre-inked.