Written by Acorn Sales Company, manufacturing stamps and seals since 1964 · Reviewed by Holly R, VP of Sales and Marketing at Acorn Sales, against the Acorn Sales notary and professional seal range (506 published SKUs) on 22 September 2026 · Updated 30 October 2026 · Product information, not legal advice; commission and license rules are set by your own board or commissioning authority.
If the only thing that moved is your commission number or your expiration date, the cheapest fix is a supplemental stamp rather than a new seal: the Regular Commission Number and Expiration Stamp is $11.95 and the Slim Pre Inked Commission Number Stamp is $22.95. If the stale text sits on the face of the seal, the seal is reordered rather than altered, from $22.95 for the Regular Rubber Stamp of Notary Public Seal or $39.95 for the Professional Self Inking Rubber Stamp of Seal. A third route avoids the problem: the listings publish four date formats, one a blank line you fill in, and the Self Inking Notary Scales of Justice listing says that format makes the stamp evergreen so it does not need replacing when your expiration changes. What your own board or commissioning authority expects at renewal is set by that body, not by Acorn, and nothing here is legal advice. State rules sit in Notary Stamp Requirements by State and PE Stamp and Seal Requirements by State.What these are for
This page is for someone holding a device whose text no longer matches their paperwork. Four situations cover most of it: a commission renewed with a new number or date, a device showing a date that has passed, a name changed through marriage or divorce, and a reissued license number. Acorn publishes 506 products in this cluster, from $5.95 to $2,095.00 with a median of $64.95, and the part that answers a renewal sits at the cheap end: supplemental notary stamps from $11.95 to $34.95, then seals of seal from $22.95 on the notary side and $39.95 on the professional side. The expensive end, the $169.95 extended long reach desk embossers and the $1,795.00 and $2,095.00 electric units, is normally what you keep. Those electric listings state that dies are not interchangeable on that unit, so contact us with the model before ordering anything for one.
The ranges we stock
What actually changes at renewal
Four fields carry information that can go out of date. The Regular Rubber Stamp of Notary Public Seal listing publishes four layouts for a notary seal face: name only, name and commission number, name and expiration date, or name with both. A name only seal carries nothing a renewal can invalidate; the fourth layout carries two fields a renewal can move. The name changes through marriage or divorce rather than through renewal, and cannot be corrected on an existing die. The fourth field is the license number on a professional seal: the Xstamper Professional and Interior Designer Pink Hybrid listings both describe an impression carrying your name, job title, state and license number. No expiration date appears among the professional fields, which is why those seals usually survive a renewal untouched.
Which Acorn products go stale and which do not
Sort the catalog by whether a date or a number is engraved into it. The devices that can go stale are the personalized ones: a notary seal ordered in a layout carrying the number or the date; the three $11.95 hand stamps, Name and Expiration, Commission Number and Expiration, and Embossed Hereon, the last of which carries your printed name and commission expiration date; the commission number and expiration stamps at $22.95 and $24.95; the combination stamps at $24.95, $26.00, $26.95 and $32.00; the MaxLight Pre Inked Commission ID Stamp at $26.95; and the signature stamps at $28.95 and $34.95. The devices that do not go stale carry nothing personal. The Self Inking Acknowledgment, Jurat and Original Document stamps at $22.95, the Regular Certified Copy Stamp at $11.95 and the identification stamps are each published in a standard version carrying only the wording, with blanks you fill in, beside a personalized version. If you bought the standard version, a renewal does not touch it.
The small stamps built for this exact problem
Acorn publishes a set of supplemental stamps whose job is to put the number and the date on a document without touching the seal. The catalog describes them as used in conjunction with your notary seal rather than as seals, and the MaxLight Pre Inked Commission ID Stamp listing says plainly that it cannot be used as a seal stamp for most states. The cheapest are the wood handled hand stamps at $11.95: Commission Number and Expiration, Name and Expiration, and Embossed Hereon. Each takes a separate stamp pad, has no moving parts and carries no impression rating. Above them sit the pre-inked versions. The Slim Pre Inked Commission Number Stamp is $22.95 with up to 25,000 impressions and a dust cover; the MaxLight Pre Inked Commission Number Stamp is $24.95 with up to 25,000; the MaxLight Pre-Inked Commission Expiration Stamp is the same $24.95 with the same count. Each carries one field, so if only your number moved, one stamp closes the gap.
Combination, commission ID and signature stamps
Where two fields moved, the combination stamps carry them together. The Slim Pre Inked Commission Number and Expiration Combo Stamp is $24.95 and the MaxLight version is $26.95, each carrying the number and the date on one impression. The Self Inking Combination Stamp is $26.00 and the Slim Pre Inked Combination Stamp is $32.00, both personalized with your name, commission expiration and commission number in a format built from your state, and the MaxLight Pre Inked Commission ID Stamp at $26.95 covers the same ground. Above those sit the signature stamps: the Self Inking Signature ID Stamp at $28.95, and the Slim and MaxLight Pre Inked Signature ID Stamps at $34.95 each. All three carry your actual signature alongside your name, commission expiration date and commission number where it applies, and all three are ordered by sending a clean copy of your signature on white paper by email, fax or hard copy.
Reordering a seal with corrected text
Nothing in the catalog alters an existing die: a seal with wrong text is replaced by ordering it again with corrected wording, a new order rather than a repair. On the notary side the seal is published in three inked bodies. The Regular Rubber Stamp of Notary Public Seal is $22.95, a wood handled stamp with a 1-5/8″ impression that takes a separate pad and comes in the four layouts above. The Self Inking Stamp of Notary Public Seal is $26.00 at about 10,000 impressions in 11 ink colors, and the MaxLight version is $34.95 at up to 25,000. The Slim Pre-Inked State Seal Notary Stamp is $32.00, and its listing notes that where a state does not allow the state seal on the stamp, Acorn leaves it off. On the professional side the seal of seal runs $39.95 self-inking, $46.95 Slim or MaxLight pre-inked and $64.95 Xstamper, with the Professional Hybrid Seal Embosser at $42.95 for a raised impression, and that ladder repeats at the same prices for every discipline in the range.
What Acorn needs from you on a corrected order
The order fields named across these listings are the ones carrying changed information. For a notary device: your name as commissioned, your state, your commission number where it applies, your expiration date, your date format and your ink color. For a professional seal: the name, job title, state and license number, built to your state board specification. For any signature stamp: a clean copy of your signature on white paper, sent by email, fax or hard copy. The most useful option at renewal is the PDF proof. Listing after listing offers an emailed proof of the impression before production, and the Regular Rubber Stamp of Notary Public Seal listing says you should verify the information before it is produced. A renewal order is where a transposed digit does the most damage. Where the stock date formats do not fit, the Slim combo listing directs you to the notes section of the order form.
The electronic seal file that comes with a professional order
Every professional seal listing in this extract states that a complimentary electronic seal is emailed with the purchase as DXF, JPG, PDF and TIF files. The Architect Extended Long Reach Desk Seal listing calls it a free electronic seal emailed with seal purchase; the Interior Designer Pink Hybrid listing describes a complimentary e-seal for digital files and documents. A few name a shorter set, the Architect Slim Pre-Inked highlight giving DXF, JPG and TIF without PDF, so check the listing if a format matters. The file is generated from the same artwork as the die, so it carries whatever text the die carries, and a file from an old order still shows the old wording. The electronic seal comes with a seal purchase. Notary stamps and seals come with a free notary eSeal image too; see your free electronic seal. Contact us before assuming either way.
What to do with the superseded device
What happens to an out of date device is governed by your notary commissioning authority or licensing board, and those rules differ by state and change over time. Acorn publishes no destruction, surrender or trade in service in this cluster, and no listing describes returning an old device with a new order. One product speaks to a superseded name rather than a superseded device: the PSI Pre-Inked Stamp Original Commissioned As Notary Stamp at $24.95, which the listing describes as showing that you were commissioned under a maiden or previous name, and frames as something that may or may not apply where you are. Read the rule that applies to you before doing anything irreversible with the old device. How to Dispose of an Expired Notary Stamp covers disposal directly, and Notary Stamp Requirements by State covers what each state publishes.
Sizes and dimensions
The seal is the larger impression and the supplemental stamps are small. A notary seal embosser impression area is 1-5/8″ in diameter, stated on the gift, long reach, cast iron and electric packages alike, and the Regular Rubber Stamp of Notary Public Seal is also 1-5/8″. Professional seals vary because the board sets them: every professional listing says the impression can vary from 1-5/8″ to 2″ in diameter depending on state specifications, so a reorder after a name change is built to the same specification as the original. Every MaxLight supplemental listing publishes 9/16″ tall by 1-1/2″ wide, covering the commission number, expiration, commission ID and signature stamps in that body. The Regular Commission Number and Expiration Stamp listing gives a width of 1-15/16″, but its height figure is missing a number in the listing text, so ask for that dimension if space on your form is tight. Reach is unchanged by a renewal, running from 2-1/2″ on the $149.95 long reach notary package to almost five inches on the $2,095.00 units.
How many impressions you get
Impression counts decide whether a stale device was near the end anyway. The $11.95 wood handled stamps carry no impression rating, since ink comes from a separate pad and the rubber die is the only wearing part. Self-inking bodies are shortest lived: the $22.95 jurat and acknowledgment stamps, the two $26.00 stamps and the $28.95 Self Inking Signature ID Stamp are all rated at about 10,000 impressions. Slim pre-inked bodies are listed at up to 25,000, covering the $22.95 commission number stamp, the $24.95 combo stamp and the $32.00 and $34.95 slim stamps. PSI pre-inked bodies are listed at up to 25,000, covering the $24.95 Original Commissioned As stamp and the $29.95 acknowledgment and jurat stamps. MaxLight notary bodies are up to 25,000, covering the $24.95, $26.95 and $34.95 stamps, and the $46.95 MaxLight seal of seal stamps are rated the same. The $64.95 Xstamper is listed at 50,000. The electric embossers have an estimated life of at least 200,000 impressions.
Ink and colors
Ink color is an order field on every inked device here, and it is the setting most often copied from an old order without checking. Self-inking bodies are published in 11 ink colors and use water-based ink, which the listings call the more economical of the two. Slim, MaxLight and PSI pre-inked bodies come in five ink colors and use oil-based ink; the MaxLight listings name Red, Blue, Black, Green and Purple on the notary side and Red, Blue, Black, Green and Violet on the Architect seal of seal. The $11.95 wood handled stamps carry no ink and take a separate pad in any color. Two listings raise the color question themselves: the $32.00 Slim Pre-Inked State Seal Notary Stamp says to check your notary handbook for rules about colored ink, and the $34.95 MaxLight Pre Inked Signature ID Stamp says to check your notary specification for the ink color used when signing. Those point at your rulebook, not ours.
What you can customize
The date format is the customization that matters most at a renewal, and it is published on nearly every personalized stamp here. Four formats are offered: one a blank line you complete by hand, two carrying part of the date. The Self Inking Notary Scales of Justice listing states the consequence outright, that the blank line format makes the stamp evergreen so you would not need to replace it because your expiration changes. The MaxLight Pre Inked Commission ID Stamp and MaxLight combo listings repeat the offer in the same words for anyone who wants a stamp that does not go out of date. That single choice is the difference between a device you reorder every term and one you keep. The same logic runs through the layout choice on the seal, where the four published layouts run from name only, which a renewal cannot invalidate, to name with number and expiration date, which a renewal can move in two places. Which layouts your board publishes as acceptable is the deciding factor, and that sits in Notary Stamp Requirements by State.
The cheapest renewal is the one you designed into the first order
Two people renew the same commission on the same day. One ordered a $26.00 Self Inking Combination Stamp with the full expiration date engraved on it, plus a notary seal in the layout carrying both the commission number and the expiration date. At renewal both carry text that no longer matches, and correcting them is two new orders. The other ordered the same stamp in the blank line date format and a seal in the name only layout, and nothing on either device moved. The catalog is unusually direct about this: the Self Inking Notary Scales of Justice listing spells out that the blank line format makes the stamp evergreen and that it would never need replacing because an expiration changes.
The trade is real rather than free. A blank line means writing the date by hand on every document, the exact chore the $11.95, $24.95 and $26.95 stamps exist to remove; the Regular Commission Number and Expiration Stamp listing frames handwriting as a source of illegible entries, hand cramp and errors. An engraved date is faster and more legible for the whole term, then stops being usable. So the question on a renewal order is not only what the text should say now, but how many times you expect to reorder it. Heavy daily volume with years of commission left favors the engraved date; occasional work, or a short remaining term, favors the blank line.
Ordering, proofs and delivery
Production is fast and stated on the products themselves. The supplemental notary stamps and the seals of seal here say they ship in 24 to 48 hours, or one to two days from order, and the MaxLight Pre-Inked Commission Expiration Stamp listing puts itself in a quick shipment group at typically one day. No setup fee is published on these items. Order a corrected device by the text that goes on it rather than by the part number of the old one: your name exactly as commissioned or licensed, your state, your commission or license number, your expiration date and chosen date format, your ink color, and a clean copy of your signature on white paper where the stamp carries one. Request the emailed proof; every MaxLight, Slim and PSI listing here offers it. For anything intended for one of the $1,795.00 or $2,095.00 electric embossers, contact us with the model first.
Care and longevity
The warranty is two years on embossing seals and six months on rubber stamps. All nineteen supplemental and seal stamps in the notary group state six months, from the $11.95 Regular Name and Expiration Stamp to the $34.95 MaxLight signature and seal stamps. Every embosser and embosser package states two years, including the $139.95 gift and hybrid packages, the $149.95 long reach package, the $169.95 extended long reach desk seals and both electric units at $1,795.00 and $2,095.00. Day to day care is mostly ink. A faint device is usually fixable; a device whose text is wrong is not. If one fails inside its term, contact us.
Products in this range
Browse the full range: Notary Public Stamps and Seals, Professional Engineer Stamps and Seals, Architect Stamps and Seals, Land Surveyor Stamps and Seals.
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Frequently asked questions
My commission was renewed and only the expiration date changed. Do I need a whole new seal?
Not necessarily. If your seal was ordered in the name only or name and commission number layout, the date is not on it. If the date is engraved on the seal, the seal is reordered rather than altered, from $22.95. Either way a separate stamp exists: the Regular Name and Expiration Stamp is $11.95 and the MaxLight Pre-Inked Commission Expiration Stamp is $24.95. Whether your board expects the date on the seal is a question for that board, and the state picture is in Notary Stamp Requirements by State.
Can I reuse my notary public stamp after renewal?
Yes, when nothing on its face has changed and your state lets a stamp carry into the new term. A name only or name and commission number layout usually can. If the expiration date is engraved, a new Regular Rubber Stamp of Notary Public Seal is $22.95, or an $11.95 Regular Name and Expiration Stamp prints the new date beside the old seal where your state accepts that. Arizona, D.C., Massachusetts, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wyoming call for a new stamp at each renewal, so check Notary Stamp Requirements by State first.
What is the cheapest way to correct a commission number?
The Regular Commission Number and Expiration Stamp at $11.95, a wood handled stamp that takes a separate pad and carries no impression rating. For ink built in, the Slim Pre Inked Commission Number Stamp is $22.95 at up to 25,000 impressions and the MaxLight version is $24.95 at up to 25,000. All three are supplemental stamps used alongside your seal rather than as a seal.
Can Acorn change the date on my existing stamp?
No product or service in this catalog alters an existing die. Devices are custom engraved to the text supplied on the order, so correcting text means ordering again. That is why the date format choice matters: four are published, one a blank line, and the Self Inking Notary Scales of Justice listing says that format makes the stamp evergreen.
What is a combination stamp and when is it the right answer?
It carries more than one changed field on a single impression. The Slim Pre Inked Commission Number and Expiration Combo Stamp is $24.95 and the MaxLight version is $26.95, both carrying number and date. The Self Inking Combination Stamp at $26.00 and the Slim Pre Inked Combination Stamp at $32.00 add your name. If a renewal moved two fields, one combination stamp is cheaper than two single field stamps.
I changed my name. What do I order?
A name cannot be corrected on an existing die, so the device carrying it is reordered: $22.95 for the Regular Rubber Stamp of Notary Public Seal, $26.00 self-inking, $34.95 MaxLight, or $39.95 and up for a professional seal of seal. The catalog also publishes the PSI Pre-Inked Stamp Original Commissioned As Notary Stamp at $24.95, described for someone recently married or divorced and showing that you were commissioned under a maiden or previous name. The listing notes it may or may not apply where you are.
Does my professional seal change at renewal?
The fields the professional listings name are your name, job title, state and license number. No expiration date is among them, so a renewal that leaves your name and number alone leaves the seal correct. A reissued number or a changed name means a reorder: $39.95 self-inking, $46.95 Slim or MaxLight pre-inked, $64.95 Xstamper, $42.95 for the Professional Hybrid Seal Embosser. What belongs on the face is set by your board, and the state picture for engineers is in PE Stamp and Seal Requirements by State.
Does the electronic seal file update when I reorder?
The complimentary electronic seal is emailed with the purchase in DXF, JPG, PDF and TIF format, generated from the same artwork as the die, so a file from an old order carries the old text. It comes with a seal purchase, so a reorder with new details brings a new file. A few listings name a shorter file set without PDF. Contact us if you need a format that is not listed.
Is there an electronic seal for notaries too?
Yes. Acorn includes a free notary eSeal image with a notary stamp or seal order, generated from the same details as the stamp, so a renewal order brings a new file with the new commission details.
What should I do with my old stamp or embosser?
That is set by your notary commissioning authority or licensing board, differs by state and changes over time, so this page does not tell you what to do with it. Acorn publishes no destruction, surrender or trade in service here, and no listing describes sending an old device back with a new order. The dedicated post is How to Dispose of an Expired Notary Stamp, and state rules for notary seals are in Notary Stamp Requirements by State. Nothing here is legal advice.
How long until a replacement arrives?
These listings state shipping in 24 to 48 hours, or one to two days from order, and the MaxLight Pre-Inked Commission Expiration Stamp listing places itself in a quick shipment group at typically one day. Transit on top of that depends on the method and carrier chosen at checkout.
Can I order a stamp that never needs replacing at renewal?
Close to it. Four date formats are published and one is a blank line you complete by hand. The Self Inking Notary Scales of Justice listing says that choice makes the stamp evergreen and that it would never need replacing because an expiration date changes, and the MaxLight commission ID and combo listings say the same. The cost is writing the date each time.
Will a new stamp match the impression on my old one?
Acorn states that seals are made to your state specifications and guaranteed to meet your state board specifications, and the professional listings put the impression at 1-5/8″ to 2″ in diameter. A notary seal embosser impression area is 1-5/8″, as is the Regular Rubber Stamp of Notary Public Seal. If layout continuity matters, request the emailed proof before production and compare it against the impression you have.
What is the warranty on a replacement device?
Two years on embossing seals and six months on rubber stamps. The supplemental and seal stamps from $11.95 to $34.95 all state six months; the embossers and packages, including the $139.95 gift and hybrid packages, the $169.95 extended long reach desk seals and the electric units at $1,795.00 and $2,095.00, all state two years. If a device fails inside its term, contact us.
My seal is fine but the impression is faint. Is that a replacement?
Usually not. The Slim, MaxLight and PSI listings describe a die plate that absorbs ink in place of a pad. Replacement answers wrong text, not low ink.
