Take it to the mat

Robert Smithson's $8 million digital printing and graphic design firm, Manatee County-based Trinity Graphics, took a big hit at the end of 2016 when it lost its biggest client.

But with some stoicism famous in his native England, Smithson soldiered on.

Trinity, which does everything from retail signs to window graphics to canvas art, has some of the largest digital inkjet printers in the region. So Smithson thought big along those lines, and came up with a new idea: decorative mats for golf carts. The mats, adds Smithson, take advantage of previously unused golf cart space — the floor.