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Realizing that many mobile phones can now view websites, we have incorporated a version of the website for mobile phones only. Given that mobile phone screens are very tiny, the complexity of our site would be rendered very small indeed, so our mobile version is clear and big.
If you have taken the time to look, we have two main options:
- Call us; obvious really, click it and it calls GRS!
- Email us; again, obvious, it’ll open your email client on your mobile.
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Although we are a modest lot by most comparisons, we have placed a Testimonials page on the site because a client asked us to add their own testimonials to our page (which at that point didn’t exist).
This was something we had overlooked, and so we constructed one. There are several on there going back to 2008, we will add testimonials to it over time as we receive them.
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MEWP Certification
Our sign fitters getting their MEWP certification updated, by a registered assessor.
MEWP Certification
MEWP Certification
MEWP Certification
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GRS & The Environment
GRS & the environmental impact of our site, “an oasis in the desert” on a tidy industrial estate.
Isn’t this something you’d like to see if you looked out your window, rather than acres and acres of concrete and industrial buildings?
GRS & The Environment
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At GRS Sign Company, we have had a good Christmas break and we’re now ready to face the New Year all rested and raring to go.
Usually we start the New Year with a company meeting and this year is no exception. This is to enable us to talk about the year’s goals, to address any issues that may have come up in the previous year (2010), and to plan out what we will be doing.
Do any other small to medium sized businesses do this? Are we alone in this?
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This has been an ongoing debate/discussion for some time now. As you may know we request from customers that if they have artwork, and they want us to use it, they must (if possible) give us the artwork in vector format.
Ok, so that’s all well and good, but perhaps people don’t understand why we need vector-based artwork rather than bitmap-based. Could that be where the misunderstandings arise?
A good explanation of this can be found here at the Wikipedia entry. It has a useful graphic to highlight the difference.
Essentially you can magnify a vector graphic any amount and it will retain its clarity and design, because it is based on lines/curves/polygons/shapes, filling in the internals with pixels as it needs. If you magnify a bitmap, since it is based on individual pixels at the point of design, it loses clarity as the picture gets larger because those individual pixels also get magnified.
On to formats, what formats are used for vector graphics? Well we use Adobe Illustrator here, so AI format is standard for us – this also includes EPS files when it is saved in vector format. It is also possible to save PDF files in vector format, but to be honest most people don’t, so we try to avoid them if we have a choice.
Just to include these, because we’re talking about vector files, there are other formats, such as SVG, VML and SWF, but we do NOT accept these since we can’t work with them.
Most people believe that JPG and GIF files are perfectly good enough for their artwork. These are bitmap graphics files. But please remember, if you supply us such a file, and it is 30mm x 40mm, but you want it magnifying to use on a large sign, it will be horribly pixellated and there is no amount of graphics magic we can apply that will fix that. That is why we ask if you have AI or EPS files instead.
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Recession is a dirty word, very ugly. Moreover it’s scary, especially to the workforce who realise that it could mean terrible things for jobs.
But to the business-owner it can be swings from flat out to slow – so how do you cope with this?
Several suggestions that might be of help:
- Talk to suppliers, get lower prices on items that you buy a lot of, if you buy more of them.
- Be careful with new customers – perhaps they have credit problems with their current suppliers?
- Hold on to current customers – they might value loyalty and remember it when times get better.
- In the slow times, use the time to drum up business.
- Training is a way to use your talented employees and see what they’re capable of.
- Get advice from local authorities.
- Ignoring any debt is a bad choice, talk to creditors and arrange better terms.
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After many months of waiting we finally have the good news that Mimaki has released an updated version of Rasterlink Pro 5. This now supports the Windows 7 64 bit version – which we have been anxiously waiting for.
What is a little bit annoying though, is that there isn’t a mailing list for those of us who use Mimaki equipment, there isn’t a blog for us to read, there’s just the Mimaki front page (the english version). But wait, there’s more. That front page doesn’t say that the Rasterlink Pro 5 has been updated! We had to hunt around and found it by accident, with a link in the Downloads section, file updated January 29th 2010.
Still, it’s better than nothing, but Mimaki should take note and try to get a better rapport with the users of its products; a mailing list, a blog, a forum board, anything like that.
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