| Ink Stamper brands abound these days. Some of the | | | | never the case. |
| major brands of ink stampers are Trodat, Ideal, | | | | The sad moral of this story is that when an end user |
| Xstamper, Ultimark, Schwaab and Shiny. Each of | | | | has contaminated their mechanical, self inking, flip up |
| these rubber stamper brands have their own unique | | | | and down stamper with these wrong inks they have |
| ink formulation that makes the product ink, stamp | | | | in essence destroyed the product. Technically the |
| and print for thousands of quality impressions. One of | | | | printing die plate could be replaced. The ink pad up |
| the most reported problems in custom rubber | | | | inside the product could be replaced also. But the |
| stamping manufacturing circles is when the provider | | | | cost of a remanufactured printing plate, a new ink |
| receives a call saying that their Trodat or Ideal | | | | pad, the cost to ship the product back to the |
| printing impression is not imprinting clearly any more. | | | | manufacturer and the cost to re send it again to the |
| The most common comment is that the printing | | | | customer exceeds the cost of a new stamper. So |
| impression is bold in some areas and in some areas | | | | dear ink stamper user, if you have a mechanical self |
| no impression at all. A manufacturer who has been | | | | inking plastic body stamp, just be sure you do not |
| around for a while knows immediately what has | | | | put the wrong ink in your stamp. If it is an Ideal, |
| happened. The ink stamper problem is that most self | | | | Trodat Printy or Shiny stamper, Ideal Ink works just |
| inking rubber stamps are outfitted with Photopolymer | | | | fine. If you have Xstamper, use Xstamper ink. If you |
| printing plates. End users of these self ink stampers | | | | have Schwaab, use Schwaab ink only. If you have |
| however tend to think that ink is ink and they will | | | | Ultimark, use Ultimark Ink only. Self Inking Rubber |
| pick up the nearest ink around and re-ink their stamp. | | | | Stamps will last for years if taken care of and the |
| Xstamper ink or Schwaab or Ultimark ink will cause | | | | user puts the right ink in them when needed. Failure |
| the Photopolymer print die plate to swell over time in | | | | means you will have problems and it will cost you |
| mechanical Trodat and Ideal stamps. Invariably the | | | | dearly in having to replace your Trodat or Ideal ink |
| end user thinks that it is something wrong with the | | | | stamper every time. |
| original quality of the product when actually that was | | | | |