About Silicone Stamps and Ink Type ???

Okay, so I think

You can use die ink with rubber stamps. (Is this correct?) Can you use pigment ink as well?

You use solvent inks with acrylic stamps.

But what do you use with silicone stamps?

Also what brand of ink would you recommend for silicone stamps?

Okay people with stamping experience, help me out here! Thank you!!!

I'm not sure that I am the one to answer this. I only like photopolymer clear stamps or rubber stamps. I find some of the cheaper (and I use this term loosely because some of them are not cheap at all!) silicone sets very hard to get good coverage. I think that is why I like photopolymer ones best, they are very easy to ink up. Plus I hate pulling the silicone ones off the sheet and having them snap at me!!!! LOL!!! Am I the only one that this freaks out??? It is like a rubber band snapping off those sheets sometimes!!! Photopolymer ones peel right off! I use all Stampin' Up inks and don't have a problem. Even with my clear stamps. I do use stazon when I am stamping on photos but that would be the only non SU ink I use.

I have successfully used dye inks, pigment inks, and chalk inks on rubber, acrylic, and photopolymer stamps. I have never used a solvent ink, and I have never used a silicone stamp.

I only use the photopolymer stamps, I don't think I've ever even seen a silicone stamp!

Photopolymer stamps are silicone stamps. Photopolymer refers to how they are carved.

Pigment inks work great with photopolymer stamps, as do most dye inks. Solvent inks work fine, but they will stain your stamp. That doesn't hurt the stamp at all, it's just something to be aware of.

The only ink that I ever have trouble with when using clear stamps are distress inks. They sometimes bead up on the stamp surface. But if your stamp is a little dirty (yes dirty!) the distress inks work better.

Oh, I had no idea they were silicone! I usually always use StazOn ink. I just make sure to clean them right away so they don't stain as much.