

The table you see below provides a great deal of detailed information on machine formats. Here is a link to an older blog, “Understanding Embroidery Formats” that contains very good information and different information on this topic. I have written other blogs about embroidery “machine” formats. You should align yourself with a company who is willing to help you after they take your money. At some point you will need help, it IS NOT IF, it is WHEN.

A few of the “home brands” are notorious for this and if it were me, I would steer as far away from these as possible. If I can offer you one piece of advice it is this, do not, under any circumstance purchase a machine where live technical support is not available. Furthermore, make sure you are provided a toll free, technical support number you can call where there will be a LIVE speaking technician who can provide assistance. Once again, before you leave the place you purchased your machine or before a trainer leaves your facility make sure you are completely clear on the process required to “teach” your machine. As much as we would like we are not familiar with your machines interface and while not likely, it is possible to do damage if we provide you with incorrect advice. As much as I (or any staff member at QDigitizing would like to help) I/we can’t. Managing your machines loading process is 100% on you. Loading your design is the process of uploading the design from that media in to your machines memory and “teaching” (official embroidery term) the machine for color stops or other information the machine might require. Transferring means moving your design from your computer to a device like a Flash Memory Module, Thumb Drive, Floppy Disk, Wireless/Wired Network connection or any other device you might use to move a design from location A to Location B. These are two very different things and you need to understand both. In the last sentence you might notice I intentionally mentioned transferring AND loading a design to your machine. There are literally hundreds of embroidery machines on the market and it is not realistic for us to know the requirements of each in respect to format and transferring/loading a design to your machine. Unfortunately, for Qdigitizing the reality is we are not in a very good position to answer this question for you. This might seem basic but the number one technical question we receive at Qdigitizing that is not related to digitizing is, “how do I get my design on my machine.” No other question even comes close to this.
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The single most important thing you can do in this regard is to know (for certain) what format your machine requires and (before you leave the place you purchase the machine) make sure you understand how to get an embroidery design from a place (like email or any other location on your computer) to your new embroidery machine. The proprietary nature of each format can make it very confusing for the end user to understand what they need and equally (or more) challenging for your digitizer, is to know what we need to supply you. One issue that is shared between commercial and home embroidery machines is the proliferation of embroidery formats and the reality that each machine will only read its own format. While these machines are not as heavy duty as their big brothers they function in much the same way and while the specifics may be different the knowledge required to produce quality embroidery is virtually identical. Over the past few years there has been a shift in the wonderful world of embroidery where there are more and more affordable, high quality embroidery machines available to the home, consumer market.

These changes will add significantly to our art capacity and while we still need to bring new staff up to speed we will be in a much stronger position to (better) serve your art requirements as we enter the busy season that starts in August. As of June 22 nd we have leased an additional 2,000 square feet of office space and installed 14 new work stations dedicated solely to our art activities. So far this year Qdigitizing has reached a some new highs and with your patience as we struggled though some capacity issues in the Art Department we have come out in a much stronger position. Summer is here and oofda (local joke) it is HOT, HOT, HOT here in Cave Creek, Arizona.
