Trodat Professional 5203 Engraving
Today we’ll make two stamps for the Trodat Professional 5203 and another for the Trodat Professional 5212 series of self-inking stamps using our CNC laser at CNCROi.com.
Of course, if you prefer the traditional variety of stamps where you source your own ink pad, CNCROi.com makes those too.
The Trodat Professional 5203 is a self-inking stamp that has become incredibly popular in offices and businesses around the world, although for CNCROi.com, by far the most popular (meaning the most we’ve made of any given model) is actually the Trodat Professional 5212 due to it’s large size.
Like all the self-inking stamps available from Trodat’s professional series, these high-quality stamps is designed to provide consistent and precise impressions every time, making it a must-have for anyone who needs to stamp documents or paperwork on a regular basis, I always recommend to CNCROi.com customers to just jump to the professional series as a result, the range are once-in-a-lifetime purchases.
The Trodat Professional 5203 features a robust metal frame and a built-in ink pad that lasts for thousands of impressions, the ink pad can be replaced with other colors and refilled at anytime with the same or different colors.
If you want to get an idea of the high quality rubber we can make and what it looks across many different colored ink pads, check this video out.
Trodat’s professional series, of which CNCROi.com is a distributor, are available in a variety of sizes, making it suitable for a range of applications, from adding a company logo to a document to stamping official paperwork or even adding mailing addresses to regular envelopes cost-effectively.
One of the key benefits of the Trodat Professional 5203 and the other professional series self-inking stamps that CNCROi.com offers, is its ability to produce clean and clear impressions every time, but this can only happen if we have a high quality image and font.
Engraving rubber is a pretty straight forward process, but you have to keep in mind that with stamps, the laser is either on or off, you either create depth or you don’t, as such, grey or colored images just don’t work well to produce high quality engravings and thus, impressions.
The precision of CNCROi.com‘s laser is second to none, as a result, if your image is blurry or your font not perfectly edged, meaning we require native vectors and imagery, those little faults will come out on the stamp.
In this production run, the larger logo is actually for the Trodat Professional 5212 self-inking stamp, it’s the largest in the market and like the smaller Trodat Professional 5203, available with a variety of colored ink pads by CNCROi.com.
Being a one-stop-shop for all your custom rubber stamping needs makes things easy for you as you only have one source to contend with design through shipping, and our experience in design through fabrication allows us to produce a superior product start to finish using Trodat’s line of consumables.
The reason for the high quality results of the professional range is we use Trodat rubber, a Trodat laser cutter (Trotec is a division of Trodat) and our software is highly optimized at CNCROi.com for custom rubber stamp production.
As a result, CNCROi.com is able to produce very high-quality rubber die, which is designed to hold ink evenly and deliver consistent results, ensuring that your documents and paperwork always look professional and accurate, thus making a great impression on clients, customers, and colleagues.
There is a reason why CNCROi.com makes a lot of rubber stamps for the 5212, it’s a massive surface area and just so fantastic for a lot of branding across many fields, from paper bags to inventory slips in warehousing.
The Trodat Professional 5203 self-inking stamp (like the others in the professional range) is also designed to be ergonomic and easy to handle, with a comfortable grip and an easy-to-use mechanism that requires minimal pressure.
It’s important to have a high quality and easy to use stamp, especially for people with limited hand strength or dexterity, as well as for high-volume stamping tasks, doing one stamping action is easy, doing a few hundred day in and out is quite another.
When it comes to laser engraving at CNCROi.com, the rubber that will become a rubber stamp, whether it’s self-inking or traditional, we always do the engraving pass first before cutting, this ensures that nothing moves during production, it’s great having everything top shelf but cutting corners would make that shelf fall apart quickly, hence not cutting any corners during production.
There are an endless variety of designs that can be put onto custom rubber stamps, but generally, I tell customers to go as big as possible with bold lettering and very refined imaging, as they pick-up more ink than very fine details.
Using Trodat’s Professional series of stamps in the long run not only saves you money but also reduces waste and helps to protect the environment, again, this is why I recommend all CNCROi.com customers looking for professional stamps to just splurge a little more and go right to that range, it really is night and day in not only build quality but durability and functionality.
A self-inking stamp, such as this Trodat Professional 5212 or Trodat Professional 5203 is a must-have tool for anyone who needs to stamp documents or paperwork on a regular basis, and it is suitable for use in a wide range of applications, you never need to search for an ink pad, as it’s built right in and overall process is a lot more efficient.
Now that this Trodat Professional 5212 is done engraving, it’s time for CNCROi.com to cut it out, you always got to keep in mind that the stamp is a mirror image of the actual impression, it’s the same idea as AMBULANCE wording on the front of those trucks, this way, it looks “right side up” in your mirror.
CNCROi.com has years of experience making stamps, self-inking or otherwise, we can help design and all products are shipped right to your door!
When choosing a Trodat Professional 5203, Trodat Professional 5212, or any other sizes available for purchase online at CNCROi.com, there are a few things to consider, first, you’ll want to select the right size of the finished stamp you need, going bigger is always better in my book because down the line, you may need an updated stamp and you already spurged for the self-inking stamp, all you need CNCROi.com to do is make the rubber component, so you have a lot more flexibility design wise.
Secondly, you’ll need to decide on the ink color that you want to use as the Trodat Professional range is available in a range of ink colors, from black and blue to red and green, but if in doubt, go with black, it matches everything.
Finally, when it comes to the design, I cannot emphasize this enough, if you zoom into the image and it becomes pixelated, it means it isn’t a vector and those pixelations will come out in the final stamp, you want everything sharp and as highly detailed as possible for the best overall stamp, self-inking or otherwise.
All stamps look very blurry and muddy when they are produced by CNCROi.com, but they clean-up very nice, all that’s left to do is stick it into the stamping mechanism or put a hard backing on it, depending on the route you take for your stamping needs.
And you can now see the final impressions of both Trodat Professional 5203s and the Trodat Professional 5212 that CNCROi.com produced, any questions, feel free to ask!