Imagepac Daylight stamp making kit - Dartmoor Letterboxing Archive

moorland wizard

2007-09-30 17:56:11

Has anyone ever bought one of these before?

Dizzy

2007-09-30 19:15:04

Hi, the Imagpac Daylight Kit is the very one that I used to make your stamps. As you can see they come out great, but be prepared to have plenty of patience trials and errors to begin with, as contrary to the instructions it does take a lot of getting used to.

If you decide to get one let me know and I will do my best to advise on the methods I've adopted through a lot of expensive liquid polymer sachets I've had to bin. But if you feel creative, give it a go. Realistically it take about 40 minutes to make a stamp from start to finish, sometimes longer. Below is how I go about it for my customers. I'm all for people having a go at this and I don't mind losing orders from good people like yourselves to give you a little bit of guidance, it’s only a hobby for me so your welcome to the ins and outs of the process.

1/ Firstly you need to scan your drawings or produce an image on some editing software.

2/ Resize the image to fit the polymer sachet, turn it into greyscale, alter the contrast to make the lines as dark as possible and then turn it into a negative image.

3/ Print the image off onto a clear acetate sheet.

4/ Set up your stamp making kit with a good large bowl shaped desk lamp at about 8” above the glass.

5/ Place a liquid polymer sachet with the negative between the two glass or Perspex sheets.

6/ Set the timer to 2½ minutes, start it and turn on the lamp positioned directly about the glass.

7/ Turn over the glass and do the same thing for a further 10 minutes.

8/ Cut out the top of the polymer sachet race to the bathroom and carefully wash off the residue polymer on the stamp using hot water and a little washing up liquid.

9/ Place the stamp in cold water and drying salts in a small flat container for a further ten minutes to harden.

10/ Take it out of the water, dry it off and then cut the stamp out.

11/ Cut some Perspex and mount the stamp, then try the stamp to see if it works ok.

This is the shortened version of the process but it will give you some idea on how things work, but remember that if it doesn’t come out right first time, you have to go through this again. Fortunately the negative acetate can be reused, I save all the one’s I make for myself and other people.

Let me know what you decide and I will help you any way I can.

Dizzy

moorland wizard

2007-09-30 19:40:37

Just thinking about it at the moment found one for around £65 with p&p just looking to see if we can find anything a little cheaper, even been on a web to get a custom one done (just looking dont worry) and by the time i finished it was over £70 so i think il be stopping with you dizzy till i win the lottery.

Anonymous

2009-01-16 09:05:21

Has anyone tried to make letters with this set?

How will font size 10 look? I suspect that such a small detail will be very frizzy.

kk

2009-01-16 10:26:08

I find someone else doing them much easier :D I now use http://www.tandastamps.com/shop/letterboxing.php and they are very good quality and price. They send your stamps foryou to check before payment.