STAMP MAKER

This course is designed to provide students with entry-level employment skills in making rubber stamps. Classroom instruction and shop experience includes: safety, tools and equipment, composing cold type, molding stamp dies, forming rubber stamps using vulcanization and merigraph processes, measuring and cutting wood stamp molding, and assembling finished hand stamps. Some of the major equipment students will use includes: vertical graphic arts camera, computer typesetter, Kroy machine, small and large vulcanizers, stamp/printing plate maker system, and band saw. (FT)sed. (FT)