ร้านแบงค์ · Hua Hin, since 2019
Good printing begins before the printer starts.
Thanawat “Bank” Rattanakul runs a two-machine print shop on a side street in Hua Hin. He studied design, not printing — which is why the first thing that happens here is somebody opening your file and looking at it properly.
Send it by LINE or email. Before 15:00 on a working day, you hear back the same day.
The one rule
The machine is the last step
Most of what goes wrong with a printed thing was already wrong in the file. It is almost never the customer’s fault — it just cannot be seen on a phone.
What usually happens
Someone arrives with a photo saved from Facebook, or a menu laid out in Word, and asks for it a metre wide. The shop down the road prints it. It comes back soft, the reds are wrong, and the price of finding out was five hundred copies.
What happens here
Bank pulls his chair over to the monitor and zooms in until you can see the problem yourself. Then you decide. “It looks fine on your phone. At one metre wide, every problem gets bigger too.”
Every working day, 09:00 – 09:30
The machine gets checked before you do
A test page goes through first — the four inks, a greyscale strip, a gradient and a block of 4 pt text. If it is wrong, no customer job starts until it is right. Sometimes that is a blocked nozzle, sometimes it is paper that has taken up damp overnight.
It is also, honestly, why we are sometimes slower than the shop down the road.
Free, whether or not you order
The eight-point file check
Send the file. We tell you what will go wrong before you pay for anything — and what it would cost to fix each thing.
- 01
Actual resolution at your finished size
Not the file’s pixel count — what it works out to at the size you asked for.
- 02
Bleed and safe margin
Whether they are there, and what will be cut off if they are not.
- 03
Colour mode, and which colours will move
RGB files are converted. Some colours cannot survive it, and we name them rather than let you find out.
- 04
Fonts
Embedded, outlined, or about to be substituted with something else.
- 05
Thai tone marks and vowel positions
These break first and most visibly when a font substitutes, and they are the thing a non-Thai designer never checks.
- 06
Anything under 6 pt
It will not read. On a laminated menu, under 7 pt.
- 07
Whether the file size matches the size you ordered
An A4 file scaled to A3 loses a quarter of its resolution, and nobody notices until it is printed.
- 08
Whether the stock suits where the thing will live
Indoor, outdoor, handled daily, written on, near water.
Why it costs nothing
If the mistake is ours, we reprint it free. If it is in a file you approved, it is a new order. That is why we check first, and that is why the check costs nothing.
- File check received before 15:00
- Answered the same working day
- Banner artwork approved before 14:00
- Prints for next-working-day collection
- Anything approved after 16:00
- Counts as the next day
Two machines, and their edges
Everything here comes off one of two machines
What they can do is on this page. What they cannot do is on it too — that part is usually more useful.
Wide-format printer
Maximum print width 1.5 m
- Maximum print width
- 1.5 m
- Length
- Effectively unlimited on roll material
- Inks
- Eco-solvent, outdoor-rated
Anything wider than 1.5 m is panelled, with a 20 mm overlap seam. The seam is visible from closer than about 3 m. If the design puts a face, fine text or a straight horizon across it, we will ask to change the size rather than print it.
“Possible doesn’t mean suitable.”
Colour digital press
Economic up to about 2,000 pieces
- Maximum sheet
- A3+ (330 × 483 mm)
- Stock range
- 90 – 400 gsm
- Economic run length
- Up to about 2,000 pieces
Over about 2,000 pieces an offset factory will be cheaper and faster. We will say so, and give you the name of one.
“We would rather lose the job than be the expensive option by accident.”
Twelve things
What comes out of this shop
Prices, sizes, stock options and turnaround for all of it are published. Wide-format is priced per square metre; press work is priced on a quantity ladder.
- Vinyl bannersNext working day under 6 m², if artwork is approved before 14:00
- Roll-up stands2 working days
- Boards and property signs2 working days
- Stickers and decals3 working days
- Backdrops and event fronts3 working days · wedding work 5, and book earlier than you think
- Business cards2 working days
- Flyers and leaflets2 working days
- Menus2 working days, plus design time if the menu is being rebuilt
- Posters2 working days · single posters same day if the file passes the check
- Table cards and QR stands2 working days
- Invitations and event stationery5 working days after artwork approval
- Vouchers, loyalty and hotel cards2 working days
- Certificates and school printing2 working days
- ID and document photosAbout 15 minutes
Before you ask
What we don’t do, and where to go instead
We would rather tell you in the first two minutes than take a deposit and be the wrong shop.
| We do not | Because | Go to |
|---|---|---|
| Books, magazines, newspapers | Wrong machine, wrong economics entirely | An offset printer in Bangkok or Phetchaburi |
| Press runs over about 2,000 | We would be more expensive and slower | An offset factory — ask us, we will give you a name |
| Industrial packaging, corrugated boxes, plastic packaging | Not a converter | A packaging manufacturer |
| Built-up letter signs, light boxes, metal frames | We print the face; we do not fabricate | A sign fabricator |
| Billboards, or anything over 1.5 m without a seam | The machine’s honest limit | A large-format specialist |
| T-shirts, garments, mugs, embroidery | Different process, different shop | A garment printer |
| Foil, emboss, die-cut shapes on press stock | No foiling or die press here | A finishing house — we will send your file over |
| Full brand identity programmes | One person, and it is not a two-week job | An agency. We will redraw and rebuild what you have |
Said plainly
We are not the cheapest shop in Hua Hin
We are not the cheapest shop in Hua Hin. A banner here costs about a third more than the one down the road. The difference is thicker material, ink that is rated for this sun, a colour check before the run, and somebody who looked at your file properly before any of it started. Some jobs do not need that. When yours does not, we will tell you.
What makes a file printable