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How To Find The Perfect Embroidery Digitizer To Help You With Your Projects

If you are looking for outsourcing your embroidery digitizing work and don’t have time to manage the digitizing process yourself, then go for an outsourcing company as it offers greater quality and variety of digitizing formats than freelancing. You can hire a company that offers you with high-quality digitized files in different formats along with good communication and easy software choices.

In this article we will discuss the various factors and how you should look at them before hiring a digitizer. After all, if the embroidery design is not perfect and your customer is not satisfied with the final product, then it leaves a bad impact on them and they will not be coming to you or recommending you to others in future.


This is the main question that needs to be answered. In the digitizing industry, 90% of the market is occupied by Wilcom and Pulse, and other minor mention are Embird, Sierra and local software. You need to determine which format your machine needs. Most machines will use the DST format, such as Melco. Others like Brother use the PES format, and some use the CND format. Make sure your digitizer provides native formats for these machine types.

Experience and expertise

This brings experience in using digital software. Some digitizers learn and start digital design within one to two months. You can't believe such digitizers. If you make such a choice, you will really put your business at risk. So you should check your digitizer and its digital samples with various questions. Experienced digitizers can tell you what the problem is when you first see the design.

How good are they with 3D puff design and small font

When it comes to lowercase letters and 3D edema design, almost 60% of digitizers will fail because they have no experience in dealing with such designs. So if you have to test the digitizer, it would be great to provide them with a 3D design or a design with lowercase letters.


Turnaround time and estimation

Suppose you have a hasty design, and the customer comes to choose the shirt the next morning? What options will you have? If necessary, will your digitizer agree to conduct urgent design within 2 to 3 hours? If not, please look for other options, because it is difficult to use different options in regular and emergency projects. Embroidery digitizing companies should be able to provide emergency services according to the needs of customers. For those who price embroidery according to the stitch quotation, estimation and free quotation are necessary. Therefore, accurate estimation will increase your trust and business to customers, and fail due to the bad reputation of the same product.