{"id":287,"date":"2011-06-18T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T07:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2025-01-06T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:01:16","slug":"qr-code-rubber-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/marketing\/qr-code-rubber-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"QR Code Rubber Stamps &#038; Stencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareasale.com\/r.cfm?u=538824&amp;b=236955&amp;m=9385&amp;afftrack=&amp;urllink=www%2Eholmesstamp%2Ecom%2Fcategory%2Easpx%3FcategoryID%3D386\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288\" title=\"qr-code-rubber-stamps\" src=\"https:\/\/qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rubber-stamps.png\" alt=\"QR Code Rubber Stamp\" width=\"150\" height=\"377\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rubber-stamps.png 150w, https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rubber-stamps-119x300.png 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Bryan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holmesstamp.com\/\">Holmes Stamps<\/a> in Florida contacted me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/holmesstamp\" class=\"broken_link\">Twitter<\/a> the other day to let me know that they were making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareasale.com\/r.cfm?u=538824&amp;b=236955&amp;m=9385&amp;afftrack=&amp;urllink=www%2Eholmesstamp%2Ecom%2Fcategory%2Easpx%3FcategoryID%3D386\" class=\"broken_link\">QR code rubber stamps<\/a>. Holmes is a family business that\u2019s been going since 1954 and this is just another way they\u2019re making old school products relevant to the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>They can make you a self-inking model with a crisp, clean image of your QR Code for easy and reliable scanning. You can also get them to add text to the stamp.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I saw the QR code rubber stamps as the ideal way to retro-fit a QR code onto something that should have had one on it from the start, or to quickly apply one later to a document in a way that adds further context to it.<\/p>\n<p>OK, a sticker would do the job too, but a rubber stamp is a quick, simple and cheap way to achieve the same result. You might need a couple of them, but if the QR codes contain data that can be applied repeatedly then it would make sense to use a rubber stamp.<\/p>\n<p>A few examples I immediately thought of where a QR code rubber stamp would be handy to add QR codes after-the-fact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">The last box of brochures, business cards or flyers before you start using the latest print run that actually have a QR code printed on them.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Printed products out of legacy systems that don\u2019t directly support adding images (like the customer invoices generated by your 1997 accounting system)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">A short term scan-to-win promo to add to sales dockets at point-of-sale.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Product packaging, die-cut boxes and cartons that you buy unprinted because printed ones are too expensive.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Marking student assignments (the QR code links to the school extranet where they can log in to see the teachers comments).<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Adding a device-scannable digital decision to anything the stamp will print on \u2013 yes\/no, approved\/rejected, passed\/failed, etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Adding the contact details of the originator to a completed pro-forma document.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">An alternative to a temporary tattoo \u2013 it doesn\u2019t just have to be a paper product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My head pretty much exploded when I starting thinking about the possibilities, but there\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure there\u2019s other companies out there doing these as well, but Bryan was the one that contacted me so he\u2019s the one I\u2019ll recommend you go and talk to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan at Holmes Stamps in Florida contacted me on Twitter the other day to let me know that they were making QR code rubber stamps. Holmes is a family business that\u2019s been going since 1954 and this is just another way they\u2019re making old school products relevant to the 21st century. They can make you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-marketing"],"lang":"en-us","translations":{"en-us":287},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8985,"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/8985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qrstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}