Shiny S-200 DIY Printing Kit 4mm and 5mm Character Height

Very versatile kit, has everything you need to make your personal stamps. I am impressed with the variation and end product. The ink, if you want a permanent non-bleeding finish as I do I would go for another type than in the kit. The ink in the kit will run if you want to apply a liquid finish to a project. Having said that the ink in the kit is great for stamping envelopes, addresses or marking books or general usage of the kind.

This is like the traditional "John Bull Printing Outfit" I had as a child. It works. The type is about 4mm high for lower case, so quite big. They provide a good number of yellow devices to insert the type into, the largest has 5 lines of type. But be warned, if you are writing in English, there are only 5 lower case "e". It is surprising how many you need! They also provide some "é" and other accented "e" characters, so I managed to create the words I needed by cutting the accent off the é with a scalpel. If you are going to be composing a lot of words you might want to consider ordering two kits, to get the letters you need. They include a pair of tweezers to grip the type, and a black ink stamp pad. Of course it is very fiddly to compose the rubber type letters in the yellow type holders, but that's part of the fun. I'm pleased with my purchase and have used it for titling my artwork.

What a great bit of kit, it can be fiddly but worth it. You get quite a lot of upper and lower case letters. The letter mounts hold the letters great. I got this to use on fabric, but used a different ink. Overall a neat kit.

I love this, it is good for making rubber stamps . Plenty of variety of stamps. Good rubber letters in 2 different sizes. Easy to use.

The results produced by this printing set are much as you may remember from using them as a child: basic but OK. As you can see from the main photo, there is an impressive amount of parts to this set for the price - but it's a better woman than me who can get it all back into the box when you've finished your printing activities. This type of printing is always fiddly, but I do find this set to be perhaps slightly more fiddly than many; I think this is because the rubber is slightly thinner than the original printing sets. The ink pad is satisfactory, but nothing special. It's not of a quality I would consider worth reinking - but of course ink pads aren't expensive and are available in many different colours anyway (but I certainly wouldn't want to try fitting any other ink pad into this set, given that I can't even get this one back in with everything else). Adequate, but not special.

Needs your commitment to DIY, or it simply won't work — it is not extremely easy but you can do it with a bit patience. Absolutely the best DIY stamp kit. Typeface is very beautiful. Has a vintage look, stamping quality is very professional and will give that old school look. The case is super useful for storage.

It is what it is. I liked it and have used it in some personal projects

Arrived quickly.Good quality product much better than I imagined it would be.Liked the stamp handle to push the letter holders in to give the printmaking more force.I use this kit for adding word tattoos to my life drawings when making art works.Might have other uses too.Lots of additional useful three letter words like fax. P.O.Box etc.Better to buy a small metal tweezer to use as this one has been designed by a caveman.