Date and serial number stamps
The two things on a stamp anybody ever argues about. Why a band date stamp so often prints yesterday, what a serial counter has to guarantee before it is worth anything, and how to make both resolve themselves instead of being drawn into a picture.
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- Automatic stamps: dates and serials that fill themselves in 13 August 2026: A stamp is a tiny piece of workflow. Here is what has to be true before it can carry any weight in one.
- Band stamps: the dial date stamp and why it lies 3 September 2026: A band stamp is a set of rubber wheels you turn by hand. Everything good and everything wrong about it follows from that one fact.
- Date stamps explained, and how to make one that is right 29 August 2026: A date stamp turns a mark into a record. It is also the only office stamp with a moving part, which is exactly why so many of them print the wrong day.
- Invoice approval and coding stamps for accounts payable 5 September 2026: The invoice coding stamp is the cheapest internal control most finance teams own, and the one most often designed badly.
- Number stamps: how serial numbering actually works 13 August 2026: Printing "No. 0001" on a seal is easy. Making sure that number is never issued twice is the part that needs a server.
- Wrong date stamp: why yours shows yesterday 10 August 2026: A date stamp that shows the day it was designed is a picture of a date. On a received stamp, that difference is the whole point.
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