paying for your mistakes
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- d_rek0
This may help... i've been doing it with freelance clients and finding it quite helpful for myself and clients.
When you're quoting a printed job you should automatically build the price of proofing into any quote your doing. Discuss this with your printer and make sure they know that any time you do a job with them to automatically build into the quote the cost of proofing. A lot of printers wont do this because they look at it as a line-item cost that a lot of people don't really want to pay for. Some clients also don't really give a shit how their work comes off of the press so it doesn't matter to them one way or the other. It's another thing they have to pay for and they don't want to do it.
If this cost is simply built into the quote then it no longer becomes a line item that someone can dispute. Not only that you will always get a nice proof to scrutinize with your client. It is also another level of quality control for you and even though the cost of a given job may go up you will find yourself working much more comfortably with your clients and printers because of the level of quality control you are exhibiting in your work.
Anyway, just a suggestion.