This is the art i get from a contract customer...

[whitewater]

nice huh?

[blue moon]

hmmmm, I wander what would happen if you printed it that way???

pierre

[screenprintguy]

time to De-Classify them as a "contract" customer. That would be full on billing brother!!!

[tonypep]

Nike used to submit tiny snipppings (I mean tiiinnny) of windbreakers and tips of shoelaces for seasonal color matches. Don't feel bad. No worries here though all you need to do is straighten it out right?

[brandon]

Hahaha, I actually really love my clients because I don't have to deal with that

[Parker 1]

"What is this art charge for?"

[Inkworks]

Good customer otherwise?

<5 minutes of recreation from my perspective. I'd just do it and move along, maybe charge $20-30 or something.

I know I know, "contract"... But really, I take care of my customers and they appreciate it and keep me busy, maybe because the other guys say "not good enough, give me better artwork".

If it was something more complicated I can see the problem, but there is plenty there for me to redraw very easily.

[3Deep]

Your lucky, I've got shirts everywhere with art people bring in for us to copy art from...I've got a pc of hard cardboard I stick the shirt to straighten it out good and flat and scan...

darryl

[jvanick]

That's not contract printing, that's soccermom-style-bs...

on the flip side... I do a lot of work for a mega-church in our area...

they get near contract rates because:

- they have a real art team that understands things like dot-gain on press, pantone matches, adobe illustrator, spot colors, gradients, outlined fonts, etc, heck, a lot of times in the beginning they were even specifying 45lpi halftones...

- they have staff members that package the whole thing up for us, tell us exactly what they want, and never waste our time... they actually have one of our 'sales resource binders' that have all the color swatches of the shirts we print on. 

- they order at least every other week, if not every week, and always order a decent quantity...

1 of the places we contract print for, does the same thing...

another one is like the above...

well let's just say that today I received a ms publisher file from them with the art they wanted to use. always are trying to order non-existant colors (even tho they have the same binder as above)

they pay a 'extra-special customer fee' due to the extra hours we have to put in to help them and service them.

[sqslabs]

Here's a mockup to send them.  7 color sim process. 

[Sbrem]

Nike used to submit tiny snipppings (I mean tiiinnny) of windbreakers and tips of shoelaces for seasonal color matches. Don't feel bad. No worries here though all you need to do is straighten it out right?

Hell no, run a trace on it, print and ship, LOL

Steve

[whitewater]

haha nice! 

its an embroidery shop..its amazing they have business... her dad owns the plaza they are in.. she has a couple employees ..she never sends proofs or anything...

yea there are art fees.

[kirkage]

that free template is already paying off!

[Frog]

A problem I have with reproducing a shirt (and point out to the client) is chances are they don't have the right to have us print it. If they owned the art, they'd have more than an old shirt.

[alan802]

Had one exactly like that.  A pic of a shirt that was printed and at least ours was more flattened so you could see a little better, but not much.