How do you handle one artwork, eight burn rates?

Density drives the burn. Bamboo scorches dark at a power that barely marks sapele; run one setting across all eight and half the deck is either faint or charred. One artwork, eight calibrated laser passes. Power and speed change per species; the drawing never does. That is what makes the set comparable.

How do you handle line weight for the softest wood?

On open-grain woods a hairline can wander into a pore and break. Floored every stroke at 0.3 mm and let the hatching read as tone rather than individual lines. It holds on bamboo and still looks fine on cherry.

How do you handle nothing on top?

A clear coat protects the engraving but kills the smell and the tooth, the two things that sell a wood card. Left it raw. The engraving is burned in, not printed on, so there is nothing to scuff off.

Case study · Business cards · Print Peppermint sample pack

Ocho maderas, un láser, una pasada

Nuestras propias tarjetas de madera del pack de muestras: cerezo, arce, haya, bambú, sapelli, nogal, abedul y tilo, todas con la misma ilustración del castor y el bloque con el nombre de la especie, grabadas con láser en una sola pasada sobre lámina de madera maciza de 0.6 mm.

Business-cards for Print Peppermint sample pack with 2 × 3.5 in, rounded corners, 0.6 mm solid wood sheet, 8 species, single-pass laser engraving and no ink, no coating.

TécnicasLaser Engraved, Rounded Corner

La idea

Una tarjeta de madera es fácil de vender mal. Los clientes piden «madera» y reciben lo que la tienda tenga en stock. Queríamos un muestrario que respondiera a la pregunta real, que no es si la madera funciona, sino qué madera.

Three rules

01One artwork, eight burn rates. One artwork, eight calibrated laser passes. Power and speed change per species; the drawing never does. That is what makes the set comparab…
02Line weight for the softest wood. Floored every stroke at 0.3 mm and let the hatching read as tone rather than individual lines. It holds on bamboo and still looks fine on c…
03Nothing on top. Left it raw. The engraving is burned in, not printed on, so there is nothing to scuff off.

Por qué lo hicimos

Así que cortamos la misma tarjeta ocho veces, una por especie, con el mismo castor y el mismo logotipo. Ponlas una junto a otra y la decisión se toma sola.