Greystones Printing

Print it! Please print it!

So many e mail footers these days suggest that you should think carefully before printing!

I agree! Totally!

Then, having thought, please click ‘print’

It is an ecologically sound thing to do. You are not contributing to the disappearance of the rain forests. You are not saving anything: on the contrary, you are risking everything by not clicking ‘print’

No hardwood trees are chopped down to make paper. The fibres are not suitable

For every softwood tree that is cut down, at least two new ones are planted. Now how good is that for soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

Trees for paper manufacturing are crops, just like potatoes: they are planted, harvested, more planted and so on. There is a huge industry that needs supporting, and by not using paper, the implications are far reaching.

Recycling paper is good, but only to a point. By the time paper has been recycled a few times, the fibres are so short that the paper made is too weak. And who wants paper that is not fit for purpose?

So my message to you is to use paper, dispose of it sensibly, but every time you click ‘print’ think of all those you are supporting.

As they say, use it or lose it.

Normal Service has been resumed!

Normal service: is that good or bad?

Having spent all day taking my sad little car all the way to Dorset, I should be working normally from tomorrow (Wednesday) I have however, been at work Tuesday evening: setting up a couple of Orders of Services for funerals, so that the clients can see proofs as soon as possible.

Easter Holiday

Hmmm, yes: Easter has been and gone, and so has the diff on the works ‘van’, losing a tooth or two from a planetary gear, at the Croft Circuit on Easter Monday.

So, I have given myself another days holiday, Tuesday 13th, to take my poorly car to be fixed in Dorset, so back at work Wednesday 14th April.

Meanwhile, reading through the lastest edition of the British Printing Society’s monthly magazine, has spurred me on to see if there are any other members locally who could meet occasionally to chat about printing and other related topics.

Easter Holidays

I shall be closed over Easter, Easter Monday is the first sprint of the new season, and the works van (http://www.pbase.com/richardsmith/image/119223460) will be screeching around the Croft circuit near Darlington. http://www.speedmog.co.uk/

Back at work on Tuesday 6th, then away for a few days, Jane is singing with her choir http://www.singliveuk.com/ in The Basilica in Venice on Saturday 10th, which also happens to be my birthday. Open for business again on Tuesday April 13th

My monthly treat

Every month, the ‘click’ meter on one of my machines is read and recorded, and I am billed accordingly. Nigel the Rotweiller has just been to read the meter, and in the last year, this one machine has run nearly half a million impressions: this is just one of my printers. A busy little thing!

One of today’s jobs…

I received this morning via e mail, a double sided A4 newsletter from my veterinary surgery client in Shropshire. By 11.00 am, it had been printed (700 copies) packed and collected by my carrier, and should be delivered to the vets practice before they are on their second cup of coffee tomorrow.

Buy a Wormer and Get a free Egg Count!

For the next two months (March and April) Fyrnwy Equine Clinics and Merial Animal Health are able to offer the following deal –

Buy one tube of “Eqvalan duo” (£17.46) and get a free worm egg count ( worth £9 ) 8-10 weeks later!

Meanwhile…

One of the local village residents has called in an hour ago with a job: she is setting up a gardening and ironing service and wanted some business cards. Good on yer Jill, hope it goes well for you. Your cards are ready to be collected!

another book…

though this time it’s a club’s membership book. The artwork/typesetting has been sent to me as a Word Doc, which is fine. On one of my computers, it looks fine: ready to print. However, when I opened the file on my ‘workshop’ computer, the type was all over the place. Can’t quite understand it! Still, we are well on the way with printing it, 200 copies of a 44 page booklet, with a full colour cover.

The book: also see previous post

So I took the final draft to my client today, a delightful gent who I would have put in his 70s, yet he is over 90,  a couple of days before he was due to venture off on holiday for a month. “I hope you have nice weather”, I told him. His reply: “Frankly dear boy, I don’t give a bu99er”. Have a nice break Sir, I look forward to our next meeting. What a character. Buy his book as soon as it is published!

new book on the shelf!

I have been working on a book for a couple of months now, for a client who is a retired GP and Clinical Psychologist. It is a fascinating read: usually, I do not have time to actually read my clients work, but as this has been proofed, amended, re-proofed etcetera, I have a couple of spare copies lying around, and it’s an excellent pick-up-and-read-a-chapter-in-a-spare-moment thing. He also happens to be a bit of a petrolhead, which is a commendable attribute, I say. One section tells of a Morris Minor convertible, which he souped up, I have just scanned in a photograph of his first car: a 1930s Morris 8. All good stuff!