Trodat Printy Do It Yourself Self-Inking Message Dater,1.63 x 1, Blue/Red

Very useful stamp and customizable to work for just about everything! I use it for labeling my sterilization bags at school. It's enough to put my name year and the date! I love how easy it is to use and such a time saver. It does hold up through the autoclave as well which is very important!

Handy tool to have, but it's really tiny fonts. Difficult for seniors or people with large hands to switch the micro stamps.

I purchased this to supplement my journal/scrapbook project I was on at the time. This week, my chemistry peer review came due, and thought it would be entertaining to insert the fake name of the company in the lines of this stamp and added 'peer reviewed' to the bottom line. My professors have gone ga-ga over this stamp. So much that they asked to borrow it for the week's peer reviews. Changing letters out of this stamp isn't nearly as difficult as it sounds in some reviews, at least in my humble opinion; perhaps the only limitations are the space on each line. I completely changed a message in less than 15 minutes, but perhaps it took less time because I planned which letters I left in the stamp.

We initially bought two last year and liked them for the purpose so much, we bought two more this year. We use them to validate handwritten tickets on the Old Colony & Newport Railway tourist trains. Using the DIY feature, we set up the outside area to show the name of the railroad and the specific train; the date part indicates the date the ticket is valid. Normally we run only two trains daily, but we ran four during Winter Festival this year, so needed the additional two stamps. The only issue we have with them is with the ink pads, which seem to run out of ink faster than we hoped and chronically fail to ink the date part of the stamp sufficiently. It is hard finding replacements for those ink pads.

So easy to put together my stamp text. I wasn’t sure how easy it was, but it was perfectly easy! Stamps great! Clear to read. I love. Worth every penny!

The product was well packaged and was in perfect condition. The tweezers were helpful to get the letters out of the container but I used my hands to placed them on the stamp. It took me roughly 10 mins. It took more time to arrange the letters around the center of the date than to placed them on it. I assume the ink pad is universal as I know other Trodat ink stamps use the clips on the sides, on this particular stamp they're not needed, so they end up breaking when pushing the ink pad inside of the stamp. That doesn't affect how the pad fits. I like that it has several characters that are used in other languages such as the Ñ. It also has numbers and icons. My complain is that I have to press hard in order to get all the letters to stamp (especially the date). I can't make a quick stamp. Most of the stamped messages are partial.

Needed a specific dating stamp for our office and buying this was a lot cheaper than ordering a personalized one. If we ever need to change it, we have the letters to swap out. It was easy to put in the letters.

Pro's: - You get allot of different characters to make whatever stamp you want - Doesn't leak or make a mess - Cheaper than buying multiple stamps with multiple messages Con's: - Swapping out characters is tough and very time consuming I bought this stamp to use to stamp multiple different messages for different products. I like that it gives you so many customization options to do whatever you want. It was much cheaper to buy this one stamp than it was for me to buy multiple stamps. That alone is what initially attracted me to purchase this item. I am able to use this stamp to make whatever type of stamp I need. However, I will echo what others have said about this product: swapping out the characters is quite tedious. You have to use tweezers to remove and replace the letters. It takes a long time to swap the letters out, and it's kind of a pain. If you only need a couple of different options for a stamp, I would recommend just getting two custom stamps made for yourself. Or do what I did. I ended up purchasing a Dymo label maker instead. It was much easier to use to make multiple custom labels than this stamp was. Overall, I would not recommend this product to you because of the difficulty in swapping stamp options. Try a Dymo label maker or just get a few custom stamps made. **If you found my review helpful, please let Amazon know by clicking the helpful button below! Thanks!**

It is a good tool, but wish it were a little easier to change the letters. But works well.

This stamp works great! I can customize the words I require along with the date adjustment is exactly what I needed. I searched everywhere for a stamp that had what I wanted and there are none to be found. This stamp is a great option.

I feel like the number of letters and numbers is too limited

This is third one in thirty years would not use any other.

La date est légèrement surélevée, de sorte que le tampon n’étampe que la date. Décu