Tips from Eagle Digitizing for Choosing The Right Digitizer for Your Embroidery Designs

Looking for a good digitizer can be difficult. The embroidery digitizing world has changed over the past few years, and trying to find a quality digitizer residing in the United States can be challenging. Digitizers established in America need to live well because of all the competition from outside the US. What exactly does your embroidery design expect from their machinist?

Well, first of all, we all want our digital designs to be perfect, so that the stitching looks just as we imagined it, but what if we don't? First of all, we accuse the digitizer that it doesn't work for us in the way that we want it to, but do you give the digitizer enough information to do that? What does a digitizer tell us about the information that is needed to make a good design?

What fabric will this design be sewn onto?

Would you use this design for any other type of application?

In what format do you want your design done?

Do you want to increase or reduce the design size from the original size?

Is he free to make some modifications to the design to make it sew better, such as increasing the letter size or choosing a different font style?

There may be many other issues, depending on the design and the information you give them. When you're looking for the perfect digitizer, look for one that uses the same software as you, and ask that you have a copy of the outline or native files. This will allow you to make changes such as resizing or removing letters from the digitized file. You may have to pay more for the privilege, but it's worth it.

Digitizer must know embroidery production

Make sure your digitizer is production aware so that there are as few trimming and color changes as possible. Make sure he or she sews the design before sending it to you. This is a problem with many digitizers, especially graphics artists. They get the software and think that since they can create any type of graphic art, they can digitize it. This could not be further from the truth. They usually know nothing about the sewing process, know nothing about pushing and pulling compound, padding or density.

If you can find a digitizer to digitize your designs with the same type of embroidery software you're using, then that's the best of both worlds. This makes it easier for you if you need to change the size or change some fabric settings. Rather than expecting that your designs will be perfect, it can be to your advantage to learn how to edit your designs so that you can get the perfect design you are looking for.

Every embroiderer should take the time and invest in learning how to edit the designs you receive from a digitizer. If you have this skill leverage, it will save you a lot of time and you will be able to make all your embroidery designs production friendly! Your idea of ​​what to expect from a digitizer is about to change. You don't expect all designs of the digitizer to be perfect, and you'll be more educated and better able to communicate with the digitizer. This will give you an edge over the competition!