Looking for an embroidery machine

barudan

Service when you need it is more important than the selling price. I have a Toyota and that would be a good solution as well.

melissa001, There are a lot of good post on this site if you want to browse some of the older post.

I have a Toyota, and have been very happy with the machine and the service. Bill Graham is right. Service is more important than the price.

NONE, I strongly recommend you outsource your embroidery until you are sure you have enough orders to make owning your own machine a no brainer... AND that you actually are good at the other parts that go along with it.. customer service, sales, billing, marketing. etc. To me for a startup embroidery machines are like exercise equipment... how many buy them with the best of intentions only to have them take up room in a corner somewhere, AFTER having taken a bite out of your bank account of course. You need the experience and contacts to outsource anyway unless you plan on turning away any large orders that come your way

I agree with Robert. The learning curve on embroidery is pretty steep with errors costing you replacement garments. Then add to it something hard to embroider like a bathrobe and you probably won't be happy with the results. If you are doing a lot of robes you'll be able to get a great deal at a large shop. I wouldn't check with the small one machine places (like me), but one that has 50+ heads. They'll probably be around $2.50-$3 and probably much less than that. Compare that to even a new 6 needle Brother home machine at $6500 and you'll see that it's just not worth it unless you've got the business lined up.