Step by step guide to making rubber stamps

Here is a brief summary of the process, complete instructions are supplied with the system and procedures manuals with stamp making tips are accessible online from this web site.

The first step in making rubber stamps with the InstaStamp Stamp Making System is to print your images onto Vellum, an almost transparent paper like film. To produce quality artwork you should use a laser printer, inkjet printers do not produce crisp edges which are so important in producing quality stamps.

Water Based Negative film is part of the InstaStamp Stamp Making System. This film is cut to suit the size of your printed vellum then both are clamped firmly before exposing the negative in the InstaStamp machine. The machine will process up to A4 size negatives.

The unexposed areas of the negative are washed away leaving you with a perfect negative. If you plan to make the same batch of stamps over and over again you only need to make the single negative.

An InstaPlate sachet is placed onto the negative, clamped and processed. The machine can process InstaPlate sachets up to A4 in size. Within minutes you will be washing away the excess polymer from your sheet of stamps ready for the hardening process which is also done in the InstaStamp machine.

The complete process from printing your artwork to cutting up your sheet of rubber stamps takes about 35 minutes using the InstaStamp Rubber Stamp Making System.