The way to get around this is to talk/write intelligently on your chosen expert area, using all the jargon, but explaining it. People will then recognise that they don’t know what they don’t know and will respect you for laying it out for them, and making it easy to understand.

This seldom fails, in my experience. :) Where it does, those are the clients you’d be better off leaving to sub-standard designers/developers.

Appreciate your comments- however where I’m barking at is that I’ve witness situations where corporate environments expect quality from traditional designers on the web – and end up with egg on their face.

Likewise I’ve seen web design agencies expecting design solutions for print from Web designers – not recognising the differences in the skillset.

I’m not understating the skills needed to be a print designer – far from it, I’ve just seen that in the industry its a crossover that is taken for granted quite often.

A print designer is not a web designer who uses high res images and outputs on dead tree. That’s a gross oversimplification. That’s like saying that a web designer only has to design for one type of screen.

Unfortunately most designers trained on Web don’t tend to understand the subtleties of print, the proper use of a reflective rather than a radiative medium, the impact of paper weight, the difference in media, the lack of need for haptic solutions because paper really does have texture. I’m not even a print designer and I understand the difference.

Maybe some print designers would like to take this up?