Embroidery Digitizing Facts and Information

So you have an idea for embroidered shirts with your company logo but you're not sure how to get from the idea stage to a finished piece of embroidery. This is where embroidery digitizing comes in, taking a piece of artwork like a photo, a sketch or a professionally drawn picture and transforming it into a language that an embroidery machine can understand and stitch out. This is not the same format that is used for say, printing or some other digital publication. Digitizing file formats are unique to the embroidery industry.

A digitizer is both an artist and a technician. In converting the artwork to a digital file, the digitizer must be able to maintain the integrity of the art while installing a myriad of stitches and settings into the embroidery file. The different types of stitches are chosen for both artistic effects such as shading and also to allow the machine to run efficiently and without being damaged. Design stitches are also chosen based on the garment to be embellished. You would not want the same underlay and stitch count on a polo shirt as say a gym bag. The difference is noticeable between a quality digitized design versus an inexperienced digitizers design.

We use a very experienced and highly talented digitizer for all our embroidery digitizing. We can take any art work and turn into an embroidery format. The charges for this service start at $45.00 a design. The other interesting note about logo digitizing, once you pay to have you logo or design digitized it is yours. It belongs to you not the embroider. Most embroiders will not tell you this. They want you to come back to them for your embroidery needs but in fact you can request your logo file at any time.

If you have any questions on digitizing, please feel free to ask. We are always happy to show you samples of our work.

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