Nightmare Clients and Client Horror Stories

When "your" printer contacts  "your" client and disagrees with your decisions on printing specs! Even when all has been agreed upon between you and client!

I've lost count of how many times I've had to explain why I can't add just one page to a saddle-stitched booklet - it has to be four pages at a time.  

Client: That blue didn't print looking as vibrant as the original photo.

Me: That's because CMYK printing can't capture all the colors that RGB can.

Client: Why can't they just print it in RGB? 

Then there was the client who loved Unsharp Mask, and figured that "sharper has to be better," and so over-sharpened all images to the point of massive halos before sending them to me.

A "vehicle wrap" for a Ford F-350 Extended-Cab pickup truck, created on a US letter-size page, using low-res graphics screen-captured from the internet, cobbled together using a photo of a small GMC pickup, and all done in PowerPoint.

Oh, this was at 6 pm, and they wanted the vehicle completed by 3 pm the next day.

No. I kid you not.

We told them to try someone else.

--OB

"How much to freshen up my website? I built it in FrontPage when Bill Clinton was President."

"Love your ideas. Can I add some small suggestions?"

Client emailing a PSD file: "Is this a vector file?"

Client emailing 20 thumbnails embedded in a Word document: "Can you use these ... ?"