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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Jan 27, 2018 6:31:17 GMT
I know it has pegs instead of hinges to get around "she who shall remain unnamed" and you can buy extra plates so you can keep them loaded during projects or layered stamps. But I can't find out if it has the typeset plate the last version had...
I even called WRMK this morning and the person who answered didn't know and I didn't get a return call. I have no need for a stamp press, I have 3 I made out of acrylic plates, hinges from Walmart and attached a mini WRMK magnetic cutting pad to the top of the bottom plate. But, I have several sets of the Martha Stewart alphabet sets that a pea told me fit the Precision Press Plus. I'd really like to have it IF it has the typeset plate.
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Post by oaksong on Jan 27, 2018 10:35:35 GMT
I know it has pegs instead of hinges to get around "she who shall remain unnamed" and you can buy extra plates so you can keep them loaded during projects or layered stamps. But I can't find out if it has the typeset plate the last version had... I even called WRMK this morning and the person who answered didn't know and I didn't get a return call. I have no need for a stamp press, I have 3 I made out of acrylic plates, hinges from Walmart and attached a mini WRMK magnetic cutting pad to the top of the bottom plate. But, I have several sets of the Martha Stewart alphabet sets that a pea told me fit the Precision Press Plus. I'd really like to have it IF it has the typeset plate. There was a discussion here somewhere when it first came out. As I recall, it had the plates, but then you-know-who threatened them and the new version doesn't have the typesetting plate. I'll be interested in knowing more, too.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Jan 27, 2018 18:12:01 GMT
I was afraid they'd given up the typeset plate idea this time. I thought surely they'd have mentioned it in that short video. I was hoping since they said you could buy extra alphabet sets for the typeset plate, they would have left them on the market. And that way they'd kind of "need" to have the typeset plate to sell those too. BUT, if they are selling the PLAIN plates separately, then it shouldn't be too hard to sell typeset plates also, to those of us who want one. Maybe I should email them asking for the typeset plate. Maybe if there is some interest, they'll come out with it. The other improvement this time was the addition of magnetic bottom. They are right about one thing, the top part of a stamp does have a tendency to be stamped darker, or that line has more of a tendency to smash a little. I think a hinge might be faster than the pegs but there are advantages to the peg system. For me, easier to ink with a big pad WITHOUT getting ink all over the plate. That is why I use the Memento dew drops Tuxedo to ink my character stamps, easier to control the ink. That is why I use red most often in sentiments because I have the Love Letter dew drop even though a lot of the time, I'd rather use one of my SU or Ranger Inks instead. Sometimes, I only use the color I really want because red just won't work at all! ETA: I thought of another slight advantage to the peg system. When I want to make my own sentiment with my clear or rubber alphabet stamps, it would be easier with just the lid when I'm putting the individual letters down to form the words. I don't put them on the lid when I'm using most stamps, just put them on the WRMK mini mat base, lower the lid to make them stick. But using teeny tiny letters, it doesn't work well that way, you need to put them on the lid and write backwards!
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