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Time and time again Translation customers are left perplexed by the translation quote process. The point that there's no formal method for translation quotes means that quotes can be interpreted in a number of ways. A customer might think he is picking out the cheapest quote while in fact this may be the opposite.   The following article describes some of the headaches as well as remedies to confront the quoting process. Normally, someone searching for translation services will check around and receive no less than three quotes. Firstly the requirements of the client should be taken into consideration.   May be the client is merely looking for an individual language to be translated with no additional translation services such as software localization, desk main software or publishing localization? In this instance it is often the best to go directly to the translator and avoid the middle man, the interpretation services company, as they of course take a fraction of the translation which in some instances might be up to fifty % of the translation quote. This is justified by the added value they add to a translation.   Does the client need to have several languages translated? In such a case the client may have the in-house resources and interprete tedesco italiano brescia expertise to cope with a many translation language task however this's often not the case as a lot of tasks tend to be one off or maybe a massive amount of the multilingual jobs require a lot of specific translation expertise and expertise which are only offered in a translation services company. As an illustration, the use of interpretation memories, the availability of a major database of specialised translators, Desktop publishing specialists or perhaps application localization engineers. For most companies this expertise along with information would be a substantial investment and not worth it in the long term to make sure they tend to outsource the translation of theirs wants.   On the and also side a good deal of interpretation tasks are very measurable, for example word counts to measure the price tag of translation, page matters to measure the expense of desktop publishing, string counts to measure the costs of an application localization. Even though all these tasks within the translation process are very measurable translation quotes can differ to the degree that clients might even wonder if they're taking a look at the quote for the same project.      Allow me to share several pointers to take into account when requesting a translation quote:      With regard to the price of translation some translation services organizations might charge by:      · Word count which tends to be the best reliable