Purchasing Digital Stamps, or Digi Stamps as they are commonly known, is a great way of building a library of images and is much more cost effective than purchasing lots of rubber and acrylic stamps. Many card makers and scrap bookers love to colour Digital images using Copic Marker pens but this can create some problems depending on which type of printer you have.
Some printer inks work really well with Copic markers, some work if you heat set the ink before you start to colour, some just need to "rest" before colouring and some just do not work well at all and the ink will bleed.
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As a rule of thumb Copic Marker pens will work well with any digi images printed out on a laser printer or a normal standard photocopier. Laser printers and photocopiers work using a toner based system which means that the image is printed onto the paper by the machine actually melting the toner onto the paper. This means that the ink in the Copic Markers which is an alcohol ink will not bleed into the image lines.
However most home printers are still InkJet printers and the ink formula in different models can differ. The only way you can be sure that your printer is suitable to use with Copic Markers is by testing it out first before launching into a larger project which could get ruined. Older InkJet printers seem to cause the most problems but if yours is newer do not automatically assume that it will work well.
Simply choose the paper type that you plan to work with and print out an image onto the paper. First of all choose a corner of the image to work straight on with your pens - if it does not cause "bleeding" your printer should be fine to use. I would recommend using a light coloured pen so you can easily see if the image edge bleeds.
If it does bleed then print out the same image again on another part of the paper and this time let it rest for a few minutes before again trying to colour If this again does not work, reprint once more and then heat set the image using a heat gun before starting to colour.
If you find your printer ink will not work with the Copic pens after trying all these methods then you can consider still using the Copics but stopping your colouring just short of the printed edge which you would normally be colouring up to. If you are then not satisfied with the finished work I would just accept that you need to look to another medium for colouring in your Digi-Stamps!
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