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They sell dry pads for their monogrammer that you can ink with whatever you want. They even have some two-zone pads that have one color zone for the border and another for the center - fun!
I prefer the wooden (or now clear) stampers because I can use any inkpad I want. For instance I love stamping in Versamark and embossing with metallic powders. For colored embossing, I use clear detail powder for everything - I just ink up the stamp with Versamark first and then ink it up again with the colored ink of choice. The all-in-one monogrammer does not give this flexiblity.
On the otherhand, if you were stamping tons of multilple images and were willing to buy extra dry pads, that would be pretty good too so far as flexibility goes.
I have the wood mounts instead of the self-inking stamps. I prefer to have the ability to use whatever ink I'm in the mood to use. Like Lynne said, if you're doing LOTS of one design, then get the dry pads to ink up with whatever SU ink color you like. But if you're just going to stamp a few at a time, I definitely would go with the wood mount.