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Printing in Bangkok!!

iwuen | January 27th, 2010 | branding, print | 2 Comments »

Shopping in Bangkok is crazy. There are hundreds and thousands of small little shops and stalls, crowded together in a mall, where they sell all kinds of stuff, from clothing to electronics, name it they have it. Say what? Printing business cards?? No problem!! just go to the second floor, right wing, south side of the mall, in between a coffee shop and a shoe shop, they’ll have it ready for you in 1 hour… if you find the shop!!

Well…. I saw the shop one time when I was shopping with my cousin and they wanted to print their business card since it’s cheap here in Thailand. So a week after, I went back to the same mall to look for the shop and boy was I lost! Not only I was lost driving by myself to town, I couldn’t find the shop provided that I knew which floor it was located at. When I finally found the shop, I found myself stranded trying to explain to a Thai lady who speaks very little English and who was not very helpful to begin with. Apparently, I was the picky customer because they have no idea of printing crop marks and trim marks and doing die-cuts and so… I had to settle for what they can offer me under MUTUAL understanding.

The bllew photography card was printed on semi-transparent PVC card. As for my business card, I initially wanted a full color spot UV coat on white paper but they told me that was impossible to do in 1 hour but if i changed everything to black…that’s a different case, so i thought to myself, what the heck…its only 300bath for 100 cards, no harm giving it a try!

2 Responses to “Printing in Bangkok!!”

  1. Amanda says:

    oh i like it!

  2. Lily says:

    Ooo, I like both. Yours is really cool too, black on black? Wow, I didn’t even know that was possible. Looks brown in the picture. I bet it’s probably cooler if they did it the way you originally want it.

    Go Iwuen! I give you props for being able to get by with broken Thai. I bet once you have the Thai language down, you’ll be kicking ass.

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