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

Huit bois, un laser, un passage

Nos propres cartes en bois de l'échantillonnier : cerisier, érable, hêtre, bambou, sapelli, noyer, bouleau et tilleul. Toutes portent la même illustration de castor et le même bloc nom d'essence, gravés au laser en un seul passage sur une feuille de bois massif 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.

TechniquesLaser Engraved, Rounded Corner

L'idée

Une carte en bois se vend facilement mal. Les clients demandent « du bois » et reçoivent ce que l'atelier a en stock. Nous voulions un kit d'échantillons qui réponde à la vraie question : non pas si le bois fonctionne, mais quel bois.

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.

Pourquoi nous l'avons créé

Nous avons donc découpé la même carte huit fois, une par essence, avec le même castor et le même logo. Posez-les côte à côte : la décision s'impose d'elle-même.