Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Custom Rubber Stamps Don't Work for Document Management

By Michael Ross

A custom rubber stamp is very expensive. For example, a 1 inch x 2 3/4" stamp costs approximately $30.00. If you need the stamp in multiple colors, that doubles the cost. If your document identification text needs to be changed, that means buy another stamp.

Time is wasted and production is reduced. Numerous receivers require copies to be made which means a trip to the copy machine. When sales, customer, marketing and clients are to receive copies of a document, each requires the appropriate marking. Not only do you have make a trip to the copy machine but then, you have to mark each copy.

They will obliterate the text or content of the document in the area in which they are used. They are generally used in the margins of documents. If not, this use-in-the-margin requirement renders the document easily susceptible to alteration as the "stamp in the margin" can easily be blocked out and an unprotected "original" made on today's high quality copiers with no trace of the stamp.

Stamping a document is a manual process. Multiple page documents mostly end up having only the first page marked. The remaining pages are therefore unprotected and unidentified. Because of this practice, rubber stamps tend to defeat best practices as well as full document protection.

Documents can be used in an unintended manner when marked with a rubber stamp. The "stamp-in-the-margin" practice is the reason most documents have their purpose altered.

Marking revised pages of a multi-page document is highly prone to error. If a user has changed pages 5, 11 and 13 of a 20 page document, she must manually sort through the document and apply the correct stamp. Discounting the error factor, this compounds the worker's waste of time.

They are inefficient and cumbersome for today's document marking requirements. The antiquated manual stamp is limited to what you have available. For any "custom" marking, a special order usually has to be placed since "rubber stamps" are not dynamic to meet your particular marking requirement.

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