Case study · Business cards · Print Peppermint sample pack
Eight woods, one laser, one pass
Our own sample-pack wood cards: cherry, maple, beech, bamboo, sapele, walnut, birch and basswood, all carrying the same beaver illustration and species lockup, laser-engraved in a single pass on 0.6 mm solid wood sheet.
The idea
A wood card is an easy thing to sell badly. Customers ask for "wood" and get whatever the shop stocks. We wanted a sample pack that answered the real question, which is not whether wood works but which wood.
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.
Why we made it
So we cut the same card eight times, one per species, with the same beaver and the same lockup. Put them side by side and the decision makes itself.
Start from these materials
Same paper, foil and finish, locked in — nothing of Print Peppermint sample pack's artwork comes with it.
