Printshop Tinto

Tinto. In Spain a wine, in the Netherlands a cartridge shop. Slash whatever print service slash passport photos slash whatever postal service point (
, Kiala, DHL).
Next trial on my printing journey. I was full of hope since they have a professional website. OK, that doesn’t mean anything but I like to stick to that illusion.
When I entered the shop there was a customer sitting at the promised printhoek («In veel vestigingen kunt u rustig even achter een pc plaatsnemen»), using the service «een bestand vanuit uw email of USB stick uitprinten».
Fortunately he finished quickly so I could overtake it. My first official act was to remove the USB stick because I thought the guy had forgotten to take it with him. Bad idea. It wasn’t his USB but in fact this stick provides the internet connection. But there’s no warning signal, no big orange note, covering half of the PC, saying in capital letters «DO NOT REMOVE THIS USB STICK!». However, that didn’t bother me because I had my PDFs on my USB stick. That the PC didn’t recognize.
The sales guy came and tested his USB stick with the same result. So he tried it on his PC behind the desk et voilà. I was relieved and handed him my USB. But as soon as I wanted to open my PDF files I realized that there was no Adobe Reader installed on his PC — WTF? He explained that the company didn’t allow that program on the admin PC (epic fail), only on the print PC.
Next step: open web browser, log in to my e-​mail account, upload PDF files. Go to print PC, access my mailbox — no internet connection (because I had removed the internet-​connecting USB stick, remember?), try to find the error, click click, solution: restart PC, new attempt, success.
When I finally was ready to print the files I was left alone with Windows. The print tool didn’t automatically detect that the format was A3, so I had to thoroughly check all print settings and change the format to A3 (button «Print Setup…» bottom left, for non-​Windows users).
I have to mention that through my whole journey the sales guy was very friendly and tried to help to his best knowledge.
In the end I paid € 5.50 for 6 colour prints in A3 (€ 1 for use of the PC, € 0,75 per sheet).
Conclusion: if you come here to print DO store your files somewhere online so you can download them in the shop. DON’T bring the files on a USB stick. Good knowledge in Windows helps. Mac-​only users you better stay away.