Quality Embroidery Starts with Digitizing

Did you know a quality embroidery job always starts with quality digitizing?  Digitizing is the process that takes a design, and converts it to a map of sorts for the actual stitches.  The stitches will come together and create the design.  A good digitized file is crucial for a good, clean embroidered design on the garment.  A professional digitizer will also select the appropriate stitch type as well.  Computerized programs are often used to digitize a design file, however a professional digitizer should always review the file and may need to make manual adjustments to the file so it will sew cleanly.  As much as the automated programs help, they often need to be tweeked for best results.  Then, once the file has been adjusted as needed, the embroiderer will do a sew-out which is a sample of the design embroidered onto a piece of fabric.  A material that is similar to the actual order works best as fabric style does make a difference on how the design embroiders.  A design going on a hat for example, will sew differently than it would on a tee shirt.  After reviewing the sew out, the digitizer may continue to make digitizing adjustments as needed until the design embroiders perfectly.

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