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

Acht houtsoorten, één laser, één doorgang

Onze eigen houten kaarten voor het monsterpakket: kers, esdoorn, beuk, bamboe, sapeli, walnoot, berk en linde. Allemaal met dezelfde bever-illustratie en soortnaam, in één keer lasergegraveerd op massief hout van 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.

TechniekenLaser Engraved, Rounded Corner

Het idee

Een houten kaart is makkelijk slecht te verkopen. Klanten vragen om "hout" en krijgen wat de drukker op voorraad heeft. We wilden een proefpakket dat de echte vraag beantwoordt: niet of hout werkt, maar welk hout.

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.