theseason3 asked:

I work for a car rental company, and my current project is to find a tool to stamp our car numbers into metal plates that will be used as key chains to identify the cars for customers.

My question to you is: What can I use to do this?

Some details to keep in mind: We are looking to spend under $1,000 for an engraving machine. We would like the fonts to be different sizes to accompany different vehicles. We would like the numbers/letters to look professional (ie: straight so if there is some kind of holding device to keep the numbers in place when using a stamper rather than an engraver).

I have looked at handheld metal stampers and they look like they could do the job, but do you know of any that come with a holder to keep both the metal plate and numbers/letters in place while stamping?

Any other ideas for gadgets to use? Any websites where I can see these items?

Thanks for your help