Digitizers Actually Sew Samples?

I agree with you on that. There is no point for digitizer to try to sew out the design on his machine as there no same machine out there. In addition to that they do make designs for the different machine formats and no digitizer can afford to have all these machines on premises.

I respectfully disagree.

By not performing an actual embroidery machine test sew out and only doing an On Screen Sew Out, it SAVES Digitizers' time, NOT YOURS', the Customers'.

Brand/Model of Embroidery Machine is not a Variable unless design needs to be digitized for an Old Embroidery Machine that does not have Trimmers.

No matter what Machine/Brand/Model, if the machine has capability to READ and Sew DST files then the end result is same.

Machine would only be variable if it was in need of mechanical repair.
On the other hand, Operator is huge variable.
If Operator doesn't use correct backing for project, hoops incorrectly, doesn't assign correct Color to Needles, has Incorrect Tension/Bobbin Settings, incorrect Control Panel Default Settings, etc. then that's an Operator Error, not the Brand/Model of Machine.

EDITS are required for poorly digitized designs, Digitizer did not follow directions/Spec's, Digitizer does not know how to Path Correctly, too many Stops, Trims, Not Production Ready, Outlines don't match, poorly kerned lettering, wrong size design, etc.

The above should be called: CORRECTIONS, not Edits.

In my book, an Edit would be required if the Custome needed CHANGE to the intitial design, and they should pay for CHANGE.

Newbies' need to know, they are PAYING unknowingly if they've found a digitizer they are paying to work for. Don't you agree?

I still prefer to do sample sewouts for clients - although it is often to only photograph and show on an e-mail with the design I'm sending. I then keep my sample as a portfolio of my digitizing. I'm also only involved with embroiderers in our local area, so I am not talking of that many designs.

Just for interest - I upgraded to a 15-needle SWF (last week :) ). When I had to run a repeat order for badges I had to tweak the digitizing to get it to look as it had in the previous order! Kind of frustrating. Possibly I could have played with tensions on the machine, but for me it was easier to do it the other way.

Bottom line - different machine, same operator, same DST file - different result.

Interesting topic. from my point of view and my years in the embroidery business I can say a sew out from your digitizer would only be necessary if the digitizer was inexperienced or simply unable to perform quality digitizing based of of knowledge. In this case then you shouldn't even be working with this digitizer to start with.

Case in point we do a lot of contract embroidery for Nike. They provide the digitizing and I can tell you no one I ever dealt with has the quality these guys do. We receive logos from them in DST that look like actual puke on screen. But when you run it, it comes out amazing. A sew out from them is never required because they know what they see on screen will translate correctly on machine.

Now on the other hand I dealt with a Digitizing company from this very site for a short time. Their logos would come in to us with horrible problems. For instance overlaps were half azzed and far to big which was a sign of rushing the job. If they ran an actual sew out themselves they would see the issue. But nope they didn't but we did and we always had to adjust their digitizing really sad.

The point is if you work with a decent knowledgeable digitizer that understands the specs you give him then you shouldn't need a pre sew out from them. 99% of the time things should work correctly. Occasionally a tweak may need to be made.

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Interesting thread, i do not provide sewout because it cost me more. Due to flat price of $10 per design, providing sew out is not possible. but i wonder when some client says they will give business only if digitizer do sew outs, in that case what options u have

I agree, we do not sew samples here, and if any problem with sew out, customer will show us the picture so that we know what is the problem.

Very nice topic, I also believe that same design may have different but a little variation if it stitch out on different machine by brand or by heads, A little no. of time I had better results with my single head melco than multi heads of Barudan but it always is minor difference which you can tweak your digitized logo a little bit to adjust with quality you want.
I use a company GliderDigitizing.com for my embroidery digitizing needs, they offer sampling service at some additional cost and very rare I found some variation in my stitching effects compare to their sample,then they tweak and fix digitized logo immediately to have the quality I want.
I believe there is always a room to learn more and more embroidery techniques.