Showing posts with label custom logos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label custom logos. Show all posts
Monday, October 28, 2019

The Path Best Taken

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Pathing is one of the most important elements to master in the process of digitizing. Quite simply, pathing means the order in which the d...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Embroidery Digitizing - Customers - Changing Their Minds (Like changing their underwear)

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We’ve all been there: Customer calls multiple times, either changing their order, adding to it or just altering the design or placement....
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Embroidery Digitizing - Hats - New Placements, Old Problems

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Hats are a very popular item to embroider but a stinker on the production: Not all designs are created equal when the customer decide...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Sometimes you just have to say “No” - Embroidery Digitizing

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All kidding aside, nobody wants to turn a customer away or tell them “No” but there are times when being honest about what they’re as...
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Punch Drunk - Embroidery Edition

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Have you ever heard the term “punching” in regards to machine embroidery? If you’ve been in this crazy business for a long while, you...
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Monday, July 8, 2013

Embroidery Digitizing - Educating the Customer

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A few months ago, a promotional sales customer of mine (We’ll call her Sally) sent over a design to digitize for her customer for an event...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Embroidery Digitizing - Let’s Talk Lettering – Part II

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In Part I of Let’s Talk Lettering, we talked about keyboard lettering, when we use it and some of its limitations. In part II we’re disc...
Monday, January 7, 2013

Embroidery Digitizing: Right Way VS Customers Way

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We all know there’s a right way and a wrong way to do things, however relative that may be, but what happens when a customer brings in a pre...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Copyrights: What’s the real deal? – Part I of II

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Every digitizer and embroiderer faces this from time to time. Let’s talk about copyright. Do we or don’t we digitize or produce a design we ...
Monday, August 20, 2012

The Design Part of Embroidery Designs

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Often, I get company logos that very clearly weren’t originally intended for embroidery, to digitize. When a company designs their logo, the...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Machine Issues VS Design Problems

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Embroidery problems are a pain in the…. BUT, learning to diagnose whether the problem is with the machine or the design will take you a long...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Editing your Embroidery Machine Designs Properly

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With regard to digitizing, ever wonder how stitch files work? The original file holding the digital information for the design is actually a...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Why graphics artists don’t necessarily make good embroidery digitizers

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Numerous times, I’ve either read or hear about some graphic artist who decides to hang out their “digitizing shingle” since they know Corel ...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Embroidery Digitizing - "Fixing" Designs

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With the economy still “tender” and the industry trying to regroup this year, I’ve been getting more of what I call “fixer” designs. Stitch ...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Embroidery Digitizing - Charge! - Part II

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Why does digitizing cost as much as it does? Many people out there think that digitizing for commercial embroidery is a scanned process wher...