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

Otto legni, un laser, un passaggio

Le card in legno del nostro kit campioni: ciliegio, acero, faggio, bambù, sapele, noce, betulla e tiglio, tutte con la stessa illustrazione del castoro e lo stesso lockup della specie, incise al laser in un solo passaggio su foglio di legno massello da 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.

TecnicheLaser Engraved, Rounded Corner

L'idea

Un biglietto in legno è facile da vendere male. I clienti chiedono "legno" e ricevono quello che il negozio ha in magazzino. Volevamo un kit di campioni che rispondesse alla vera domanda: non se il legno funziona, ma quale legno.

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.

Perché l'abbiamo creato

Così abbiamo tagliato lo stesso biglietto otto volte, uno per ogni essenza, con lo stesso castoro e lo stesso lockup. Mettili uno accanto all'altro e la scelta viene da sé.