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February 24th, 2010 admin No comments

Logo Patch

What Is Embroidery Digitizing?

So you have an idea for embroidered shirts with your company logo or a patch for your riding club 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.

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. An inexperienced digitizer will end up with a finished product that seldom resembles the original artwork and quite often can damage a machine by programming in unrealistic stitch demands. When choosing an embroidery digitizer be sure to ask for samples of their work and don't be afraid to investigate into their experience and knowledge.

Here is an example of a sketch that was submitted for a patch order. The digitizer would take this sketch along with other customer supplied details such as size, color, font type, etc... to transform this simple sketch into a digital embroidery file.

For more information on machine embroidery and digitizing, Please Visit Our Embroidery Blog or go to our website to browse our catalog of embroidered garments and custom patches.

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We are a full service embroidery company in the Boston, Massachusetts area. We do all our work here in the U.S.A.