Printing Service covering Sheffield, Dronfield and Chesterfield
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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Yep, ‘fraid so! Mrs Smith needs a few days off, so this week (19th Sept to 23rd Sept) will be spent having the occasional day out. Still, leave a message on the phone, or send an e mail, and we won’t let you down.
I have said on these pages before how really nice it is to have printed for some clients for years. One such client came back today, with the draft for his club’s annual programme. A delightful gent, he never fails to ask how my ‘kids’ are: he has seen them growing from toddler stage up until they went off to Uni and left home. Our eldest is now 27! I always hear a joke too, but I am afraid they are not the sort that can be repeated here!
Yes, it’s true! For followers of the antics of the ‘works van’, my Morgan 4/4, we managed two third places over the first weekend of September at the Ty Croes race circuit on Anglesey. Despite torrential rain on Saturday, all the competitors times were slow, about 20 seconds above target, but on Sunday, the sun was out, the sky was blue, and with a warming and dry track, my third run of the day saw me come in over a second under my target, or ‘bogey’ time. A good weekend.
Fraid so! We are heading south for the summer. Well, as far as the Isle of Wight, anyway. I hope it’s summer there. So, we will be closed for business Wednesday August 10th fort the rest of the week. Back at the desk, so to speak, Monday 15th.
well, not quite! Daughter Emily, a graphic designer who works as a packaging designer, has branched out and has started to take on the odd freelance job. Thinking this might be paybackdad time, I welcomed the chance to send her work, but it transpires she will be invoicing me for the work done. Which, of course, I will pass on to my clients!
One of my machines has been playing up for ages. It would work fine, and with no notice, would suddenly stop, and flash up an error code. This error code could be different each time. Switching the machine off, leaving it for a few minutes, and powering it up again would normally get it running for a while.
An engineer called today to replace a worn out drive gear on my Olivetti printer. I told him about this, he said straight away: “a dry joint on a certain circuit board.” Having fixed the Olivetti, he took the cover plate off, unscrewed the offending board, turned it over, and pointed to a soldered component, the solder having a very fine hairline crack in it. A touch with the soldering iron, he went on his way a couple of bottles of wine heavier, and me, very happy, having now fixed such an annoying problem, one which my regular engineer couldn’t fix! So, I have my surplus machine up for grabs, unless the suppliers will take it back. Watch this space!
Not knocking it of course, I am very grateful. However with a third press installed, I am currently running between three presses, all running flat out, each on different jobs, trying to keep one step, or even half a step, ahead!
Taking advantage of another bank holiday, we shall be closed Thursday April 28th, back open for business Wednesday May 4th (though we may be available Tuesday 3rd depending on the traffic from the channel tunnel)
I get on very well with my paper merchants, the sales people are friendly and helpful, but are being hassled by clients like me because of the stupid rules their bean counters have bought in. Minimum order of £75 they say, but that is in one day…. not in a single order. I can order £40 worth of paper in the morning, it’s delivered at lunchtime. I order another £40 in the afternoon, that’s delivered first thing next morning. and because I have ordered more than £75 in a day, no small order surcharge. I ordered two pallets of paper a couple of weeks ago, asking for one to be delivered then, and the other later. No problems. But when I asked for the second pallet to be delivered today, and asking for 2000 sheets of tinted paper, I was going to be charged £15 small order surcharge! Now one of my problems is that I don’t have a lot of spare space and cannot always be depended on to buy just for the hell of it, and let’s be fair, I don’t know what you, my clients, are likely to order tomorrow.
BEAN COUNTERS KNOW THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING BUT THE VALUE OF NOTHING!
The value of service, and the knowledge that I often order a few hundred poundsworth of paper at a time means little to them.
Fair enough, I, like other clients, try to order in sensible amounts, but £75 can buy a lot of paper!
Yes: it’s true, I am buying another Duplo, to help me print 1000 copies of a 260 page book! It is a job I have done a couple of times before, the last time was when my trusty Morgan was being rebuilt after that ‘wall incident’, so I had the garage in which to store 2 pallets of paper! Mog’s in the garage, so a pallet of paper is currently residing in the conservatory!