Greystones Printing is a printing company based in Dronfield, serving the local area, Sheffield and Chesterfield. We are a small company focused on excellent customer-service. Our specialties are masonic, business & commercial and wedding stationery.

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must mind my e’s and a’s!

Oh, I know, there shouldn’t be apostophes there. However, a lot of folks get ’stationery’ and ’stationary’ mixed up. As a printer, I produce stationery. However, the Greystones Fleet now includes a stationary engine! If you are bored, nip over to www.british-red-sportscar.co.uk and look at the new ‘red pump’.

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A Very Happy New Year

to customers old and new. I hope that 2012 brings you health, wealth and happiness. And a lot of business to me please!
OK, That’s Christmas and New Year’s Eve out of the way for nearly another year, so let the phone lines get busy!
Also, please bear in mind that Christmas will be towards the end [...]

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junk mail: does it have its benefits?

Well, I suppose it does: not only for the printer! Not that I have any clients for whom I produce  ‘junk mail’ My marketing consultant pal Andrew Marsden would call it targetted marketing.
Anyway, the result of my receiving ‘jm’ was a subsequent order sent to National Pen Co, and is a nice box of pens [...]

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impressed by a new client!

I will call her “Julie” to save embarrassment (it’s her real name anyway!) She is a local artist, and had come to me to chat about photographing and printing one of her paintings. As she entered my workshop, she said ‘Oh, you are into Morgans then’ which impressed me: not only for recognising the photos [...]

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Free extra day!

Yes, February 29th 2012 will be a bonus day for us, and to celebrate it, we have produced a rather smart desk calendar in its honour. Including photographs by me and designed by my daughter Emily, it will grace any desk. To receive a copy, e mail me with the reasons why you think you [...]

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visitors who leave their mark

Idly looking out of my print room window, as 4 huge horses walked past. Nothing too unusual to see horses in the countryside, but on my back lawn? Apart from some very deep hoof marks as our lawn is quite soft, we have quite a lot of erm….. poo, to feed our roses now!

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a few days off

What, again? He’s never there!
We will be closed from Thursday 1st December until Tuesday 6th December: Just 4 work days, so hopefully you will not even notice I’m not there!

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today’s job (2)

Another job came in as a pdf with a load of (to me) glaring errors. And  in a format that suited neither me nor the preferred method of print finishing. However, when the files arrived, it was Thursday, and the client phoned on Saturday  :-(  to see if it was ready! The job was collected [...]

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today’s job…

has come to me as pdfs, which had supposedly been proofed and signed off. Straight away, I noticed two glaring errors. I just cannot let work go out if I know of an error, so to be on the safe side, contacted my client, who had the job amended, and it is now being printed.
So, [...]

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My First Customer….

in 1983 was a guy called Trevor, who had just taken over a steel cutting company from his former employer, and so I was his first supplier! Over the years, I have done loads of work for him, the next job is coming up soon: wedding stationery for his daughter Julie. During those years, I [...]

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