Last year I had a client run with about a $2000 balance. He was overseas, so I really didn't have any recourse, so I had to let it go. This month I had another guy run, this time a fellow Minnesotan (I am not letting this creep go). It really angers me, the kind of people who are so entitled and don't think they have to pay their bills. It isn't like I now decide who I am going to screw over to compensate for the loss. I am on the fence on having a proof watermark across my proofs. For one, it tells my clients that I don't trust them and two, it doesn't do any favors for the image. I am sure I'll get used to it. How do you guys handle it? Proof or no proof?
I have been putting my logo on the bottom right of my color proofs and my contract has always said that it stays until the final balance is due. I have been placing it there for new clients and it has worked out. The problem there is, some of my clients don't tell their client that they don't do their renderings in-house, so that makes it difficult. I have worked for some pretty high profile architects and they all had proof watermarks across their drawings. It also helps to keep things from getting out in the wild, with your name on it, things that were never meant to see the light of day.
Here is one I just posted for review.
I have been putting my logo on the bottom right of my color proofs and my contract has always said that it stays until the final balance is due. I have been placing it there for new clients and it has worked out. The problem there is, some of my clients don't tell their client that they don't do their renderings in-house, so that makes it difficult. I have worked for some pretty high profile architects and they all had proof watermarks across their drawings. It also helps to keep things from getting out in the wild, with your name on it, things that were never meant to see the light of day.
Here is one I just posted for review.
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