The stamp shop wanted 3 business days and $38 for a signature stamp I needed by 9am the next morning, for a stack of paper contracts a client's compliance team insisted on printing and physically signing. I called two more shops. Same answer: 2 to 3 days, because the die gets cut by hand and neither branch had my exact size in stock.
I ended up making one myself from my laptop instead, using an online stamp generator (stampmakertool.com) that lets you draw or upload a signature, pick a stamp style, and export a transparent PNG at print resolution. Four minutes, most of which was me redrawing my own signature three times because the first two looked like someone else forged it.
It's not a real rubber stamp, and I want to be upfront about that. If you need an actual embossed stamp for a notarized document or a company chop a bank teller can feel with their thumb, this doesn't replace that. It's a flat image you print or place digitally. For me it was fine: the client just wanted a scanned PDF back with a stamp graphic in the signature block, not a wet-ink original.
What I didn't expect was how often I'd reuse the file afterward. I've since used the same PNG on two invoice templates and one grant cover sheet, because once it exists as a transparent image, dropping it into a doc takes ten seconds instead of hunting down the physical stamp, finding the ink pad, and pressing it straight the first time.
If your stamp need is one-off and not legally binding (invoices, internal paperwork, personal projects) the online version is faster and cheaper than reordering the physical one. If it has to survive a notary or a bank counter, call the shop and budget the 3 days.
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