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royster13:
Over the years I have sent out 1,000s of jobs to contract printers.....And it is standard for me to provide production ready artwork.....And probably 99.9% of the time my files are good to go.....If not, I expect to pay an art charge, however, sometimes it is waived in consideration of the volume of work I sent to a particular contract printer....

Now as far as how I price my orders, I rarely show an art charge....Most clients are only interested in the bottom line, not the way I got there....I usually build a few$ into each quote (internally) and then for the odd file that I need to hire an artist I have enough cash to do so.....I would say these days that not more than 1 file in 10 requires any work.....So the 5.00 I add into each quote covers the money I pay out....

Homer:
we have art requirements spelled out to the T, if they do not follow these guidlines, we bill @ hourly art rate. We have had vectored art sent to us that was still unusable, you know the type - the ten million parts to a piece of clipart. So we learned the hardway to bill them seperatly. Make it known they must follow your rules to work with you. Sure there are other printers out there but when people get comfortable with a printer, they seldom like to change. . .

JBLUE:
For our contract customers art must be ready to go. All we should have to do is add reg marks and print. PSD files need to have everything in spot channels. If it takes more than a few minutes to tweak they get charged. It's part of the contract process as a contract customer to provide print ready goods. We do let a few get away without charging due to their volume but it's not too often.

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