# Ever tried photopolymers?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-tried-photopolymers/512423>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 3, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-tried-photopolymers/512423 "2009-10-03T01:54:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-tried-photopolymers/512423/1 "2009-10-03T01:54:38Z")

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You may recall my earlier thread, **Anyone ever purchased/used a stamp maker?** I thought a thread about photopolymers specifically might get some responses from people who have used it, just not for stamps. It seems to be the process behind stamp making machines. (Paging **Lynn Bodoni** : much cheaper, too!)

Have you ever used it? What brands of photopolymer (or other items involved in the process - light source, etc) do you find create the finest amount of detail? From internet research, I’ve narrowed it down to one of these two: Granthams ([http://www.granthams.com/page2.html](http://www.granthams.com/page2.html)) and M&R Marking ([http://mrmarking.com/polymer\_acessories.html](http://mrmarking.com/polymer_acessories.html)). Have you ever used products from either of these companies? Or do you have a recommendation for another product line?

Thank you very much.

(If you’ve never heard of it, that first site, Granthams, has a good description of the process.)

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**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-tried-photopolymers/512423/2 "2009-10-04T19:34:24Z")

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Bump.