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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My wife is sinding with her choir in florence at the end of the month (March) so this is advance warning that Greystones Printing will be closed for business from Wednesday 23rd until Thursday 31st March inclusive. Back in business Friday April 1st… no fooling!
Well, they just haven’t happened! Despite all the signs telling us all the road was to be closed, is this just another example of a sheer waste of our money? Incompetant highway planners! Are we expectred to ignore these signs, just as the motorway matrix signs never tell the truth either? Heads should roll. And give us a rebate on the taxes we pay to fund this waste of resources.
What has that got to do with printing?, I hear you say….. Well: the B6057 is to be closed from 09.30 to 3.30 each day from 28th February until about 11th March, seems like we are having the road resurfaced through Unstone. Not before time: the road surface is awful, having been dug up a few times, and if you drive the sorts of vehicles I do, then you need to have your dentist’s phone number on friends and family!
So, if you are coming to see Greystones this week, you might have to take advantage of the Park ‘n Walk facility.
Ok, so I have been computerised for years now, but following last year’s hiccups with computers, both ceasing to be, I bought a new stack for the workshop, and a laptop for use in the house. The system has been working fine, and recently, upgraded my router to a wireless one! The freedom! As I type this, I am in the kitchen, and if I was minded to, could walk around, laptop in hand, typing as I go! Next thing will be to make my printers wireless, but will still have to walk to them to collect the printed sheet!
My next hurdle, technologically speaking, is to work out how my Garmin Etrex works! Yep, I can see how far I have walked, how fast I have driven, how high I have climbed, but need to be able to input stuff! Any help gratefully received!
I love having happy customers, that is not to say I have customers that are unhappy: far from it. (I hope) Anyway, I had to make quite a few deliveries today, and arriving at my Therapy client, was met by the owner Jan, beaming all over her face, waiting for the phone to ring telling her she was a Granny for the first time! I hope you will let us know about it Jan. Next call was to a masonic client and his wife: he told me that he wanted to post out what I was delivering asap, as they were getting all excited about a trip to Iceland they were just about to embark on. Jane and I went to Iceland a few years ago, and hopefully my enthusiasm for Iceland ( I can’t spell Rejkavic) has rubbed off on them and that they have a superb break. Then a call to my old pal Martin Rickers, who incidentally was one of the first people I got to know when I moved to Sheffield way back in 1974. Now Martin is another happy bunny, enjoying retirement and his bike rides (about 35 miles at a time) Then, when I got back, a phone call with hopefully another happy prospective client , what wanted to know if I could simply print the inners for her wedding invitations, and telling her I could even print her guests names on individual invites, she too hung the phone up smiling. She will visit tomorrow with the details. Happy customers make me a happy printer, and if I am a happy printer, that makes Jane a happy printer’s wife.
if you are the person who called me around lunchtime! Most days, my graphic designer daughter phones me, asking daft things such as “Do you print cards” and wanting “three million by tea time”. Well, today the conversation went something like “Do you take cards?”, so my reply was on the lines of “Only birthday and Christmas cards” and the conversation got sillier and sillier. Tcalss, it was not Emily, the saving grace was that I believe it to have beeen a junk call by someone wanting to sell me a credit card taking facility. I think!
No, I don’t want my equipment PAT tested, No, I don’t want to change telecom suppliers, No, I don’t want want to change accountants, No, I don’t want to be in an international directory……Yes, I do have a website!
I have an electrician on my books, I am very happy with BT, I have an accountant and the success of this website means I don’t want to be in any directories.
Thank you for asking though. I know you are being paid to phone around, but please, give me a break, and leave my phone lines free for my valued clients to call me.
A very Happy New Year to all my clients, old or new. Thanks to you, we finished 2010 by being busy, and that’s also how we are starting 2011. Best wishes to you all.
May I wish all of my clients a Very Merry Christmas, and hope that the New Year brings you what you wish for. Thank you, one and all, for using Greystones for your printing.
We don’t actually close down for the Christmas break, but probably won’t answer the phone every time it rings. (especially after ‘normal’ office hours and at weekends) We will though, respond to e mails and enquiries via this website.
Sorry! I must get into a routine. I have been very busy though, more dissertations (usually last minute, but we can cope!) orders of service for funerals: again, it goes with the nature of the job that these really are last-minute jobs. A couple of weddings, though no birth announcement cards lately! And of course, Christmas cards. One I have just completed is for the Chairman of the Morgan Sports Car Club, the message on the front is….. should I spoil the surprise? …… “The Twelve Mogs of Christmas” and is a photo-montage of various parts of our favourite sports car! I am sure these will become collectors items!