Gino, you say it is going to be a problem on people's eyes? That is better than just saying it is the worst thing they have ever seen. Can you expand on that?
This is going on a tinted sliding window inside a dentist office. Originally, they wanted all the grey parts cut out and then applied. I did talk them into going with a white outline of the tooth, with the grey printed on that.
Not being a smart arse at all, but since you brought it up, I would like to learn from it.
And for the price (before I knew we were going to have the time into changing the artwork) I priced it out at $40 to print out the 18" tall decal. Not installing it. You say that it should have been $125 for it?
Thanks
Okay, here we go.
You say tomato,
I say tomato..... you know the saying. It's all in how one words it or says it. I said the same thing, but wasn't trying to be funny.
Anyway, when you print the light gey on that huge white background, it's basically gonna look like a large white blob.... or tooth. In order for the light grey parts not to dominate the copy which is far too skinny and weak, you'll only see a large blob. Once you're up on it, you'll see the copy. If you make the grey too dark in order to show up, it will totally take away from the copy.... guaranteed.
The grey cut-outs would look better in a medium grey with no white whatsoever connected to the tooth portion. Beef up the copy or use a better style and outline that in the white, but not too heavy. This would read much better, but you really sounded like you were interested in just making this as easy as possible for yourself without any regards to an end look. This sort of consideration [
or lack of] results in unsatisfied customers.
As for your price, $40 for something like that and you aren't going to instal it sounds cheesy. Any professional would not let a customer instal a window graphic. That's just not smart or nice. If you're that lazy, then fire your graphics person and learn her job and go hire an installer.... or someone that can help make your business appear to be professional. Anytime you do a window job or door lettering for under $125 or $150 no matter how simple or easy, you're sending a signal that this isn't worth chit. Then you won't get chit and if something goes wrong, which it did many times over, you look like a dolt changing horses in the middle of the stream.
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We are in the process of doing 8 windows today as a matter of fact. Each one is 44-1/2" x 87" We quoted $4,750. plus travel time. The job was accepted. I got a call about an hour ago that something is wrong with one of the prints. Turns out, they gave us the wrong measurements. They are 45-1/5" across, so with our overlap the words are stretched a little too far out for our liking. Called the customer and told him his measurements were off. This is going to cost them, but I have enough built in to do this completely over a second time and still make out. However, I can look like a hero by saying we won't charge him the full amount for '
Their Mistake', but we'll still get more.
You have to make your product
have value and at $40, I can get just about any whitening, cleaning, clever tube of tooth paste and mouthwash for almost that.
You asked. These are things that should be running through your head from the gitgo. Pricing, possible mistakes, changes, professionalism.
