OttaPen

Our robots

A machine thatholds a penproperly.

No printing, no font, no simulation of ink. A steel arm grips a ballpoint at a writer's angle and drags it across card stock.

Writing robot, side view

Annotated

Six details thatgive printing away.

  • 01

    A real pen, held properly

    The pen is gripped at the angle a right-handed writer would use, with the same tilt that makes ink flow evenly.

  • 02

    Pressure that varies

    Downstrokes press harder than upstrokes. This is the detail that printed script can never reproduce.

  • 03

    Letterform variation

    Every character exists in several captured variants, chosen at write time so no two words match.

  • 04

    Natural baseline drift

    Lines wander a fraction of a millimetre, exactly as a human hand does across a card.

  • 05

    Genuine indentation

    Run a thumb across the back of a card and you can feel the writing.

  • 06

    Built and maintained in-house

    The machines are designed, assembled and repaired by the same team that runs the writing floor.

The signature test

Watch a lineget written.

The stroke below is drawn the way the machine draws it — one continuous path, starting where a pen would start and lifting where a pen would lift.

On the floor

What happensafter you hit send.

  1. 01

    Your message enters the queue

    Text, recipient and stationery choice arrive from the app, an integration or the API.

  2. 02

    The card is loaded

    A robot picks the chosen stock and clamps it flat on the writing bed.

  3. 03

    The pen goes down

    Stroke by stroke, in your chosen handwriting style, at roughly the speed of a person writing quickly.

  4. 04

    Envelope and address

    The envelope is addressed by the same machine, in the same hand.

  5. 05

    Stamped and posted

    A real stamp is applied and the card enters the mail the same day.

Get started

Let a robotwrite to you.

Request a sample and judge the writing with the card in your hand.