Ok, I'm a dope and I cannot find the link someone posted in a thread that had a great comparison of acrylic images to those made by rubber stamps.
A friend of mine just bought some acrylic stamps and she is not happy with the image quality. We've stamped on a foam support (like that which comes with CTMH stamps), used dye ink, pigment ink, chalk ink, and what she doesn't like is that the image (in her opinion) is not "crisp" like with her rubber stamps. I was thinking maybe the stamps needed to be "conditioned". Does anyone do this, and, if so, what do you do? Do you condition rubber stamps and acrylic ones or just acrylic ones?
We've found that the acrylic works better with a pigment or hybrid chalk ink- anyone else found the same? Is it because the dye ink is water based and resists the acrylic mount more than a rubber stamp would? Is it b/c there is more color staturation to the pigment/hybrid ink?
Just wondering and seeing if I could help my friend out.
Thanks!