Charing a Client - keep the designs

[BJMRGTIVR6]

Sorry the title doesn't describe the question I have better.
I know we cannot talk about pricing and I intend not to.

I have a client with whom I designed a Logo, business cards, letterhead, and a brochure for. He paid.
Now, after meeting with the bank for a loan, cannot afford the letterhead and a full run on Brochures (basically he wants to print the brochures on some brochure paper and not through a printer). I have already designed the letterhead and such, should I just hold on to these files and await his decision to print them or hand them over on a CD with the logos?

I know he will have know clue what to do with them anyway so doing so may just cause problems when he says he cannot open them (He used MS Publisher to present his ideas to me for the stationery).

Thanks in advance.

[Bear]

:eek: Charing a Client - keep the designs

You want to burn a client just so you can keep the designs ? I don't think that's very ethical....

[steve2112]

I always feel that a logo is completely the customer. I give thim the .AI file and a jpeg if the want. All the other things are technically yours. They are your art unless in your contract it says the customer gets all finished materials. I would suspect that if he cant pay a 400 bucks for some letterheads you probably won't get much work form him again. I would not give him anything but the logo. He is just going to print everything on his printer and change stuff without you there. I sometimes just make low res PDF when proofing and give that to them while doing reviews and stuff.

Steve

[BJMRGTIVR6]

oops. Charging is what I meant.
Thanks. It is a startup company and I think they want to make sure more money is spent on machines at this point.
thanks for the help.

[Ned]

He's paid for them, so give him all the files. He may not know what to do with, say, EPS files, but down the road he may send them to a printer, or even have another designer look at them. It would not be fair for him to not have the files he paid for!

If he gets another designer to create a design for him, and provides him with say... a JPG logo, it's only going to ruin your reputation. "Who created this for you? Oh, some freelance designer named BJMRGTIVR6."

In the meantime - make sure he's provided with PDF files of all your complete designs, no printer marks, with vector quality. This way, he or anyone can open them, print them on his own printer, or whatever he's planning - and all the quality will be there.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

OH, the logos will be his in EPS and Tiff and JPEG but i was unsurte about the INDD files.
ok.

[greyghost]

I agree with Ned.
He paid you for it. His lack of foresight if he cannot afford to get them printed. But they are his files now. The only rights I maintain are the rights to say I did it and publish the works on my website or send them for consideration in printing in some of these design books we all drool over.

[jlknauff]

Many contracts specify that the designer keeps the raw files, but we always give the clients the files if they want them. If they're going to go elsewhere to print them, chances are they will be a pain in the ass anyway.