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Many of our customers are interested in printing on our wood grain textured envelopes, especially
the dark Bubinga color because printing doesn’t show up that well, but they don’t know which
pen to use. So to answer this question, we tested three different pens on the wood grain
envelopes. We tested calligraphy markers in black and in metallic silver and gold and
a variety of gelly roll pens with a roller ball tip. For consistently of hand writing,
I printed the back flaps of each envelope using an ink jet printer and then traced the
writing in the various pens, and here’s what I found. Using the black calligraphy
marker on a Limba, white wood grain envelope, I found that writing was precise although
it was hard to get in the grooves. So what I mean by that is it was easy to write small
and to trace the text, but when I was writing I found that as I was going over the bumps
of the wood grain it was leaving a lot of space in my writing. This marker has two different
tips – a larger one and a smaller one, both of them are pretty sharp which is why writing
is precise and dark but again, a little bit difficult to get through the grooves. Next
I tested two different gelly roll pens, a white opaque and a metallic gold on the dark
wood grain envelopes – the Bubinga color, and the results were great, actually. The
roller ball tips of these pens make it really easy to write. It’ s a really nicely flowing
pen. It fills in the grooves of the wood grain, and it pops pretty well on these back flaps
as you can see. I also have an example here of a blue metallic pen on a white envelope
and you can see that really pops as well. Finally I tested the silver calligraphy marker
on a Limba envelope and the results really weren’t that great. Calligraphy markers
have a pretty large tip that makes it pretty difficult to write precisely. I found I couldn’t
write as small as I wanted and all of the text just blended together. Although the nature
of this marker does write very smoothly over the grooves of this texture, I wouldn’t
recommend this pen for hand writing on wood grain envelopes. In summary, we tested three
different pens – gelly roll pens, metallic calligraphy marker, and black calligraphy
marker and what we found is that if you are going to hand write on wood grain envelopes
gelly roll pens are probably your best bet. They write smoothly; they fill in the grooves,
and they pop the best of the three. If you have any questions get in touch with us.