Written by Acorn Sales Company, manufacturing stamps and seals since 1964 · Reviewed by Holly R, VP of Sales and Marketing at Acorn Sales, against Acorn Sales product catalog, shipping-packaging-stamps range on 21 September 2026 · Updated 21 September 2026
Acorn publishes 144 shipping and packaging stamps, and nearly all of them imprint at one of two sizes: Small 1/2″ x 1-1/2″ or Large 3/4″ x 2-1/4″. The mount sets the price and the ink. A Trodat self-inker is $15.95 with 11 ink colors and up to 10,000 impressions; a wood handle stamp is $15.95 with no ink at all; a PSI or Slim pre-inked stamp is $16.95 with 5 ink colors and up to 15,000 impressions. That last number is the reason pre-inked wins on corrugated: it is oil-based, and our pages put it on kraft and cardboard by name.What these are for
These are the stamps that replace a label printer for small runs, and a Sharpie for everything else. Our catalog splits them three ways by job. Origin and compliance marking: the largest group by far, almost all of it some treatment of MADE IN THE USA, from the plain rectangle of the Patriotic Label Packaging Compliance Self-Inking Stamp to the rope-knot frame, wheat stalks, laurel wreath, eagle and block-letter versions. Parcel status and admin: EMAILED, RECEIVED and ENTERED marks such as the Boots and Spurs Emailed Packaging Admin Wood Handle Stamp, the Rustic Foxy Parcel Badge Self-Inking Stamp and the Occult Custom Entered Packaging Business PSI Pre-Inked Stamp. Brand marking on the package itself: the cartoon-mascot designs that go on boxes, kraft bags, tissue, tape and thank-you cards. The buyers our pages name are small business and Etsy sellers shipping handmade orders, e-commerce and warehouse fulfillment associates, packaging compliance coordinators and QA inspectors, home bakers and cottage-food makers labeling cartons, and wedding and event planners marking favor boxes.
The ranges we stock
Trodat self-inking stamp, $15.95, 11 ink colors, up to 10,000 impressions
The Patriotic Label Packaging Compliance Self-Inking Stamp, the Heritage Wheat Label Packaging Compliance Self-Inking Stamp, the Rustic Hen Roost Packaging Compliance Self-Inking Stamp and the Rustic Foxy Parcel Badge Self-Inking Stamp are each $15.95. Press and print, laser-engraved die, ink carried on a pad inside. This is the only shipping mount that offers the full 11 ink colors Acorn stocks, and the only one whose pad our pages call reinkable and replaceable, so the body outlives its ink. Rated up to 10,000 impressions before a refill. Case colors are Light Pink, Purple, Midnight Black and Fuchsia.
PSI pre-inked stamp, $16.95, 5 ink colors, up to 15,000 impressions
The Heritage Eagle Design Packaging Branding Pre-Inked Stamp, the Laurel Heart Hand Shipping Box Pre-Inked Stamp, the Patriotic Banner Logo Custom Packaging Pre-Inked Stamp and the Feline Purr Parcel Pre-Inked Stamp are each $16.95. An internal reservoir feeds oil-based ink straight to the die, which our pages credit with fast drying and resistance to fading, bleeding and smudging. Rated up to 15,000 impressions, the highest figure in this range. The second selling point across every PSI page is noise: whisper-quiet, near-silent action for shared offices, studios and late-night packing sessions. Our pages put this ink on kraft mailers, cartons, cardboard, tissue, tape, product tags and inserts by name.
Slim pre-inked stamp, $16.95, 5 ink colors, pocket format
The American Heritage Signature Packaging Compliance Slim Pre-Inked Stamp, the Stars & Stripes Spoons Packaging Compliance Slim Pre-Inked Stamp, the Kawaii Critter Crew Shipping Box Slim Pre-Inked Stamp and the Happy Stack Mugs Shipping Box Slim Pre-Inked Stamp are each $16.95. Same oil-based ink and same up to 15,000 impressions as the PSI, same 5 ink colors, which our Slim pages name explicitly as red, blue, green, purple and black. What you are paying for instead of quiet is a flat, light body that lives in an apron pocket, a shipping tote or a clipboard bag, which is what our pages sell it on for pop-ups, markets and coordinators moving between workstations.
Wood handle stamp, $15.95, industrial inks, fabric and non-porous
The Patriotic Critter Parade Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp, the Handmade Threads Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp, the American Rustic Charm Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp and the Starry Cookie Couture Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp are each $15.95. A laser-engraved rubber die under a black wooden handle, separate ink pad required, and our pages make two arguments for it that no sealed mount gets. First, no internal moving parts to wear out. Second, and the real reason it exists in a shipping range, it is the only mount our catalog writes up for industrial and specialty inks on fabric and non-porous surfaces, including the glossy coatings that make ordinary ink bead up and slide.
Designer 1-5/8″ stamps, $21.95 and $26.95
These break the two-size pattern and are bought for a different reason. The Shiny Duo designer stamps at $21.95, such as the Custom Retro Sewing Heart Address Stamp and the Gingerbread Bakery Charm Christmas Cookie Rubber Stamp, carry a 1-5/8″ square image on a modular body with a dust cover and a fungistatic handle, work with industrial and water-based inks, and need a separate pad. The Trodat designer stamps at $26.95, such as the Lovebirds Embrace Personalized Square Address Stamp and the Personalized Lovebirds 3-Line Custom Rubber Stamp, are the same 1-5/8″ image in a self-inking body with 11 ink colors and up to 10,000 impressions on a refillable or replaceable pad. These are the ones carrying custom text: a return address, three lines of your own wording, a shop name.
Sizes and dimensions
Almost the whole range is two sizes. Small is 1/2″ x 1-1/2″ and Large is 3/4″ x 2-1/4″, and that holds across every stock mount, so the $15.95 Patriotic Label Packaging Compliance Self-Inking Stamp, the $15.95 Handmade Threads Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp, the $16.95 Heritage Eagle Design Packaging Branding Pre-Inked Stamp and the $16.95 American Heritage Signature Packaging Compliance Slim Pre-Inked Stamp all imprint at the same two footprints. Our pages are consistent about which to pick: small for hang tags, product labels, tight label areas and card corners; large for box flaps, cartons, poly mailers, tissue and packing slips, where the mark has to read at a glance across a pallet or a packing bench. The designer stamps are the exception and imprint at 1-5/8″, square rather than rectangular, sized for an envelope back, a gift tag or a box lid: the Lovebirds Embrace Personalized Square Address Stamp at $26.95 and the Custom Rhode Island Heart Rubber Stamp at $21.95 both carry that 1-5/8″ image.
How many impressions you get
The gap between mounts is large and it is the main thing to weigh if you ship in volume. PSI and Slim pre-inked stamps at $16.95 are rated at up to 15,000 impressions before a refill, stated on essentially every pre-inked page in this cluster, including the Patriotic Pet Stack Packaging Branding Pre-Inked Stamp, the Cherry Orchard Collective Branded Packaging Pre-Inked Stamp and the Laurel Heart Hand Packaging Label Slim Pre-Inked Stamp. Trodat self-inking stamps at $15.95 are rated at up to 10,000 impressions, on a pad our pages describe as refillable and replaceable, and the $26.95 Trodat designer stamps carry the same 10,000 figure. For the wood handle stamps at $15.95 and the $21.95 Shiny Duo designer stamps, no impression count is published, and that is correct rather than missing: neither carries ink, so the count belongs to the pad you buy. In practice the pre-inked body is the one to buy for a high-volume packing bench, and the self-inker is the one to buy if you expect to keep the same stamp for years and just keep feeding it.
Ink and colors
Three ink systems, and they are not interchangeable. Self-inking, 11 colors: the $15.95 Trodat bodies and the $26.95 Trodat designer stamps offer the full 11 ink colors Acorn stocks on a reinkable and replaceable pad, plus case colors in Light Pink, Purple, Midnight Black and Fuchsia. Pre-inked, 5 colors: the $16.95 PSI and Slim bodies offer red, blue, green, purple and black in premium oil-based ink our pages describe as quick-drying and resistant to fading, bleeding and smudging. Pad-fed, your choice of ink: the $15.95 wood handle stamps and the $21.95 Shiny Duo designer stamps carry no ink, so the color and the formula are both yours, and that is where industrial and specialty inks enter the picture. Acorn stocks 11 ink colors overall; a 5-color pre-inked mount is a limit of the body, not of the shop. Pads on the self-inking stamps are swapped or re-inked rather than thrown out. A pre-inked stamp is worth roughly 4 re-ink cycles before impression quality falls off.
What you can customize
Most of this range is stock art with fixed wording. On a $15.95 or $16.95 packaging stamp what you choose is size, mount and ink color, plus a case color on the self-inkers. Our catalog publishes no character count or line count for those, because there is no text field. Custom text lives in the designer stamps and in custom orders. The Personalized Lovebirds 3-Line Custom Rubber Stamp at $26.95 is written up for three lines of your own text in a 1-5/8″ square; the Custom Retro Sewing Heart Address Stamp and the Custom Rhode Island Heart Rubber Stamp at $21.95 carry the same 1-5/8″ format for a return address or shop mark. Several pre-inked pages, including the Occult Custom Entered Packaging Business PSI Pre-Inked Stamp and the Liberty Owl Charm Custom Packaging Pre-Inked Stamp, invite you to personalize with a business name, logo or message. For artwork, EPS is best and a transparent PNG is good, leave about 2% edge space around the imprint, logo work is one color, and address lines run to no more than about 40 characters. There is no setup fee and no minimum order.
Corrugated is easy. Non-porous is the one that needs a different stamp.
Buyers looking at a packaging stamp usually worry about the wrong surface. Corrugated cardboard and kraft are porous, they drink ink, and the pre-inked bodies are the ones our catalog puts on them by name. The Laurel Heart Hand Shipping Box Pre-Inked Stamp at $16.95 is written up for shipping boxes, hang tags and packaging, especially on kraft paper and cardboard. The Patriotic Banner Logo Custom Packaging Pre-Inked Stamp at $16.95 names cardboard, kraft paper and tissue. The American Flag Fox Packaging Branding Pre-Inked Stamp at $16.95 names cardboard mailers, kraft bags, packaging tape, product tags and inserts. The oil-based ink in those bodies is what our pages credit with drying fast and resisting fading, bleeding and smudging on exactly that kind of stock. For a corrugated box, a $16.95 pre-inked stamp with 15,000 impressions is the straightforward answer.
Non-porous is a different problem and it needs a different mount. Glossy coated cartons, laminated boxes, poly mailers, packaging tape and fabric do not absorb ink; whatever you lay down sits on the surface until something smears it. Our catalog is consistent about the fix, and it is not a fancier sealed stamp. It is the $15.95 wood handle stamp plus an industrial or specialty ink pad. The Patriotic Critter Parade Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp says plainly that it is designed to work with industrial inks and performs on fabric and on surfaces that do not absorb moisture. The Patriotic Log Beaver Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp says it works with industrial inks for fabric and many non-porous surfaces. The American Rustic Charm Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp goes further and names fabric, glossy coatings and other tricky surfaces. The Handmade Threads and Starburst Americana wood handle stamps carry the same language.
The reason is structural, not marketing. A sealed body carries one ink, chosen at the factory. A wood handle carries no ink, so you choose the chemistry, and on a non-porous surface the chemistry is the whole job. No amount of impression count helps if the ink will not key to the material.
Be aware of one inconsistency in our own catalog rather than discovering it on a pallet of poly mailers. A handful of pre-inked pages, including the Patriotic Banner Logo Custom Packaging Pre-Inked Stamp and the Patriotic Owl Design Packaging Label Pre-Inked Stamp, list poly mailers among their surfaces, while the wood handle pages present industrial ink as the requirement for non-porous work. Our reading of the range as a whole is that the pre-inked oil-based ink holds up well on the matte poly and coated kraft most sellers use, and that anything glossy, laminated, waxed, taped or woven is the wood handle plus industrial ink. If the surface matters to your order, test on one box before you stamp a hundred.
Ordering, proofs and delivery
Production is 1 business day. Orders ship from Richmond, Virginia, with transit of 3 to 10 business days by method and carrier, sometimes next day if you select rush shipping. There is no minimum order and no setup fee, so a single $15.95 wood handle stamp is a normal order and so is a stamp for every station on a packing line. A PDF proof is an optional add-on, and it is worth adding on anything with your own text on it, because production waits until you approve it. Two ordering notes specific to this range. First, the $15.95 wood handle stamps and the $21.95 Shiny Duo designer stamps arrive with no ink; if you are buying one to mark fabric, tape or a glossy carton, order the industrial or specialty pad in the same cart, because the stamp on its own will not do that job. Second, decide size before you order rather than after: Small 1/2″ x 1-1/2″ and Large 3/4″ x 2-1/4″ are separate products, not an option you can change later.
Care, re-inking and replacement
A self-inker at $15.95 is the maintained one: the pad is reinkable and replaceable, so a faded impression means a refill, not a new stamp. Our pages describe pad replacement as a quick swap, and the bodies are built for daily shipping runs and seasonal surges. A PSI or Slim pre-inked stamp at $16.95 runs up to 15,000 impressions and then needs re-inking; Acorn’s own experience is roughly 4 re-ink cycles before quality falls off. Keep the cap on a Slim if it lives in a tote, which is what the cap is for. A wood handle stamp at $15.95 is the longest-lived body in the range because, as our pages put it, there are no internal moving parts and no tiny parts to snap; the care it does need is the die, so wipe it after industrial, pigment or permanent ink and do not leave it face down on a loaded pad. The $21.95 Shiny Duo designer stamps come with a protective cover and our pages say to store the die under it between uses. Acorn warrants rubber stamps for six months, which is the term printed on our product pages. That is the warranty, not the expected life: in normal use a stamp body lasts several years, and the part that wears first is the pad or the ink rather than the die.
Products in this range
Browse the full range: Shipping and Mailroom Stamps, Bulk Mail and Indicia Stamps.
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Frequently asked questions
How many shipping and packaging stamps does Acorn publish?
144 published SKUs. That counts mounts and sizes separately, so the number of distinct designs is smaller: most artwork appears as a $15.95 self-inker, a $15.95 wood handle stamp and a $16.95 pre-inked stamp, each in Small and Large. The bulk of the range is origin and compliance marking built around MADE IN THE USA, with a smaller group of parcel status marks such as EMAILED, RECEIVED and ENTERED.
Which stamp works best on a corrugated cardboard box?
A pre-inked stamp at $16.95. Corrugated and kraft are porous, and the oil-based ink in the PSI and Slim bodies is what our pages put on them by name, with fast drying and resistance to smudging and fading. The Laurel Heart Hand Shipping Box Pre-Inked Stamp is specifically written up for kraft paper and cardboard, and the American Flag Fox Packaging Branding Pre-Inked Stamp names cardboard mailers and kraft bags. You also get the highest impression count in the range, up to 15,000.
What stamp and ink do I need for a glossy box, packaging tape or a poly mailer?
A $15.95 wood handle stamp with an industrial or specialty ink pad. That is the only combination our catalog writes up for non-porous surfaces. The Patriotic Critter Parade Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp states it works with industrial inks on fabric and surfaces that do not absorb moisture; the American Rustic Charm Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp names fabric, glossy coatings and other tricky surfaces. Because the wood handle carries no ink of its own, you choose the chemistry, and on a non-porous surface the chemistry is the whole job. Order the pad in the same cart and test one box first.
Can I stamp fabric bags or ribbon with a packaging stamp?
Yes, with the wood handle mount. Our $15.95 wood handle pages say repeatedly that the stamp is designed to work with industrial inks for fabric and many non-porous surfaces, and the Starburst Americana Design Packaging Compliance Wood Handle Stamp names fabric directly. The $21.95 Shiny Duo designer stamps also state compatibility with industrial and water-based inks. The sealed pre-inked and self-inking bodies at $16.95 and $15.95 are written up for paper goods: cartons, kraft, tissue, labels, tags and paperwork.
How many impressions do I get before re-inking?
Up to 15,000 from a PSI or Slim pre-inked stamp at $16.95, and up to 10,000 from a Trodat self-inking stamp at $15.95 or a $26.95 Trodat designer stamp. No count is published for the $15.95 wood handle stamps or the $21.95 Shiny Duo designer stamps because they carry no ink; their life belongs to the pad you buy. A pre-inked stamp takes roughly 4 re-ink cycles before impression quality falls off, while the self-inker’s pad is reinkable and replaceable when it wears out.
What sizes do packaging stamps come in?
Two, on every stock mount: Small 1/2″ x 1-1/2″ and Large 3/4″ x 2-1/4″. Small is for hang tags, product labels and tight label areas. Large is for box flaps, cartons, mailers, tissue and packing slips where the mark has to read at a glance. The designer stamps break the pattern with a 1-5/8″ square image, which is the format for a return address or a three-line custom mark.
How many ink colors can I choose?
11 ink colors on the Trodat self-inking bodies at $15.95 and $26.95, which is the full set Acorn stocks, plus case colors in Light Pink, Purple, Midnight Black and Fuchsia. 5 ink colors on the PSI and Slim pre-inked bodies at $16.95, named on our Slim pages as red, blue, green, purple and black. Your choice of ink on the wood handle stamps at $15.95, because you supply the pad. If you color-code by shift, SKU or handling class, the self-inker or the wood handle is the mount to look at.
Can I put my own logo or shop name on a packaging stamp?
Yes, as a custom order, and some of our designer stamps are built for it. The Personalized Lovebirds 3-Line Custom Rubber Stamp at $26.95 carries three lines of your own text in a 1-5/8″ square, and the Custom Retro Sewing Heart Address Stamp at $21.95 is a personalized address format. For your own artwork, EPS is best and a transparent PNG is good, leave about 2% edge space around the imprint, and logo work is one color. There is no setup fee and no minimum order, and the optional PDF proof holds production until you approve it.
What is the difference between a PSI and a Slim pre-inked stamp? They are both $16.95.
Same ink, same numbers, different body. Both carry oil-based ink, 5 ink colors and up to 15,000 impressions. The PSI pages sell on quiet: whisper-quiet, near-silent action for shared offices, studios, libraries and late-night packing. The Slim pages sell on portability: a flat, light body that fits an apron pocket, a clipboard bag or a shipping tote, which is why our packaging compliance coordinators and market sellers get pointed at it. Pick on where you stamp, not on image quality.
Why is a wood handle stamp the same $15.95 as a self-inker that comes with ink?
Because you are buying different things. The self-inker buys you speed and a clean bench: one-handed press and print, 11 ink colors, up to 10,000 impressions, no pad on the table. The wood handle buys you flexibility and life: no internal moving parts to wear out, instant color changes by swapping pads, and the only route in this range to industrial and specialty inks for fabric and non-porous surfaces. If everything you mark is a cardboard box, the self-inker is faster. If any of it is glossy, taped or woven, the wood handle is the only one that does the job.
Does a packaging stamp come with an ink pad?
The sealed ones do. Trodat self-inking stamps at $15.95 and $26.95 and PSI and Slim pre-inked stamps at $16.95 arrive inked and ready. The $15.95 wood handle stamps and the $21.95 Shiny Duo designer stamps state on the page that a separate ink pad is required. If the wood handle is what you need for a non-porous surface, budget the industrial pad in the same order.
How fast can I get one?
Production is 1 business day, shipping from Richmond, Virginia, with transit of 3 to 10 business days by method and carrier, sometimes next day if you select rush shipping. No minimum, no setup fee. If you add the optional PDF proof, production waits for your approval, so factor that in on a custom-text designer stamp ahead of a launch or a market weekend.
