Looking for an American Digitiser.

Sometime last year there was a guy on this forum advertising his digitising business. He is an American, and an ex GI. I cannot find his thread and I would like to give him a try. Anybody know who he is?
Earl

Location: 
United States

24 hours on line digitizing services with Competitive Price – US $ 0.50 per 1,000 stitches (half dollar)

We provide 24 hours on line digitizing services with the followings -

• Competitive Price – US $ 0.50 per 1,000 stitches (half dollar)
• Free format conversions
• Free editing until you are satisfied
• Extremely fast turnaround time within 12 hours
• No extra charge for rush jobs
• file format we provide - dst, pof,pxf,emb,exp, jef, dsb, pes, and other
• Payment - Paypal

Hope to establish a long and excellent business relationship with you.

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Hi All
.....just a quick FYI for this coming Thur & Friday the 28th,29th of June......I will be out of the office but still able to receive any logos you might need done if you have no rush on them...
I will get right back at it on Monday morning, if you have sent me something I will email you with any questions I might have then......hope this does not inconvenience you to much and I have and always will appreciate the business you have given me in the past......thank you and have a great day......

Brent
Harleydude777

P.S. Thank you Earl for the kind words above.....it was a pleasure

I have a prime example of why it is good to support your local companies. I had a customer here in Seattle that took his digitizing and production business overseas to pakistan. I knew the production company he was using here locally and it hurt both our businesses. Then, a month later I get a call from the customer who wanted me to call Pakistan to explain how to properly place the logos for left chest. Here he takes away my business and someone else that I know, yet he wants me to help them with something they should already know. A couple months later he again calls and wants me to explain to them how to set up hats for puff embroidery. All you can do is shake your head and wonder sometimes.

I'm with you too. I wonder how many "US" digitizers would offer to send their condensed files along with the stitch files. I don't punch for outsiders, just for our shop and a few friends, and EVERRYONE I punch for has their own systems. I'm just the "go to guy" for applique, special efffects fills, and just plain HARD artwork. I've punched on and off for 30 years, and am back at it again. Some of us never learn...lol

I digitize for 12 years now and hoping someone would use me. I started off from the bottom. First, just hooping, then run thems multi-head embroidery machine, and digitizing, and finally multi-tasking;)

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so does that make you an "American Digitizer" or "Based in America"? Maybe it doesn't matter to those that read this thread but to me they are two different things.

I can see the benefits of subbing out.. it enables you to do less work and still make money.. it also allows you to keep your leadtimes in check. Whereas we do all our work in house and during those times of year that we get slammed we work longer hours but still find ourselves juggling work and praying the weekend comes sooner so we can work and get caught up.. lol Might not be fair to our clients since we are messing with their in hands date, but I just cannot bring myself to sub out....especially if that is Off Shore.

Again maybe it doesnt matter, maybe I should ask my clients if they would be ok if I subbed out their work and just sat here and made the difference? But I just cannot wrap my mind around that yet... I want control of the digitizing, I want the pride to be mine when we pull off some of the amazing designs our clients send us.

And I am still proud to think that after 23 years in digitizing we are still around and everything is done in the US... But that could just be the work ethic I learned growing up in the coal mines of Indiana and Kentucky, or what I learned as a medic in the US ARMY or what I gained from going to the United States Military Academy in West Point NY. All combined I am who I am , and American Based just doesn't work for me in this thread.

Modern Embroidery Designer
volant-tech.com
volantfineart.com

with all due respect "megrisoft" some people due care if it is digitized in the U.S.A. or not.......as Americans I along with many other Americans try to support our guys (so to say) BUY AMERICAN !!!!! so it does matter if a company says it is American or based here and then outsources it's stuff overseas.....I guess my old school mentality just plain out calls that a LIE....
now if you advertise that you are based overseas and that all digitizing is done overseas then it is your client that decides where he/she would like to get their digitizing done...... but to many digitizers/companys out there now a days say they are based or do the work here when in fact they do not......so a simple YES is does matter to some......Thanks

harleydude777
bburghy@mhtc.net

I agree, I wouldn't sub out my work. If I have to work 7 days a week to keep up but like you said you wouldn't have as much control over the quality. No one cares more about your business than yourself. It is that midwest upbringing, I completely agree!

I'm with you harleydude777 it is so hard to find truly USA made. And I get so frustrated trying to understand reps from other countries.
cmrc

harleydude777 wrote:
with all due respect "megrisoft" some people due care if it is digitized in the U.S.A. or not.......as Americans I along with many other Americans try to support our guys (so to say) BUY AMERICAN !!!!! so it does matter if a company says it is American or based here and then outsources it's stuff overseas.....I guess my old school mentality just plain out calls that a LIE....
now if you advertise that you are based overseas and that all digitizing is done overseas then it is your client that decides where he/she would like to get their digitizing done...... but to many digitizers/companys out there now a days say they are based or do the work here when in fact they do not......so a simple YES is does matter to some......Thanks

harleydude777
bburghy@mhtc.net


I know you are one of the respected digitizer based in US. My point was reflecting another side of the question and you will be agree with my point. Some companies advertise with US phone number that designs are digitized in US, but actually they outsource to INDIA. For example Affinity....

Many US digitizing companies outsource to overseas, so you can not really know if the design is USA made or overseas digitized

Steve
Embroidery Digitizier and Color Separation
20 Years Experience
(Price : 10 USD Flat OR 1.5 USD/1000 Stitches)
First Two designs Free to Try
gnizitigid@gmail.com

punchlinepro.com Works out of his home, Been doing this for years and he does GREAT work. Strawberry Stitch is another good USA source that does GREAT work. I know how to digitize but were to busy so I often send both of the above people work and am VERY happy with them both ! Yes work is done IN AMERICA

I PROMISE I was born in the U.S.A. ...live in the U.S.A. .......served in the United States NAVY......and every single logo I digitize is done right here in the U.S.A.
can you say the same gnizitigid? or you city digitizing? give me a call.....I bet you can understand me !!!!!

Hi,
Just a quickie.
Brent digitised a logo/patch for me. He did good work , was quick, helpful and offered to do changes if I needed.
I would defiantly use him again when I need some digitising work.
Thanks Brent.

Earl.

We are based in India, Does it matter if design is digitized in USA or India. We are doing digitizing for many UK, USA, Australia firms and they never have issue, My point is that if quality is given, no issue in hiring overseas digitizers. We have fast turn around and support as compared to US based digitizers

I missed this thread.

I think it is a shame that the US people seem to have lost their pride.

I see national pride in our country for many of it's "new" citizens and I respect it completely! One of my fellow embroiderers is from Honduras and he does ALL the Mexican restaurants in town... I think it's awesome that they support each other like that. Americans should do the same. That dollar you are sending to another country is likely never going to make it back to this country.

I'm all for one love and I value EVERYONE's lives, but the local community comes first, sometimes that local community is a little more far reaching than just the "neighborhood".

Brent for president! ;)

"you don't need a hook for the worms to dance."

Earl Smith wrote:
Sometime last year there was a guy on this forum advertising his digitising business. He is an American, and an ex GI. I cannot find his thread and I would like to give him a try. Anybody know who he is?
Earl

I just wanted to bump this old thread along. Support USA Labor in every way you can. Buy American. American Cars (Like BMW made in Spartansburg NC), American Tees and knit tops (American Apparel made in LA), American Apparel Contract Manufacturers (like Town & Country in Lugoff SC), American Knit Hats (Like US Artex Knitting Mills in Westville NJ), American made embroidery (I have a list as log as my arm), and especially valid here, USE AMERICAN DIGITIZERS. I punched for almost 20 years, was out of the industry for five years, and started digitizing again last year.

When I do outside work (rarely) I supply my punch files in both .STI (Condensed Wireframe) and .DST (Stitch Files Tajima Format). Most American Digitizers will supply a condensed file, which will allow scale changes and edits from most digitizing systems. When I first punched a full back Harley Davidson Jacket Back, it was punched for a full back men's Denim jacket. When they decided they wanted to do women's too, It was a quick minute to bring it down 2 1/2" in size, and when they wanted to run Leather, I took all the density down to 80% so that they could have embroidered jackets, and not $200 leather patches.:)

So all of you who are growing your businesses, consider using an experienced US digitizer. We are always working to make you the best appearance, and not to boost stitch count to build $$'s.

Jamie
Artex Knitting Mills
Westville, NJ

Just a shout out to a couple of Great sources I have found and are totally USA based digitizers that do GREAT work.
Personally I prefer to send my files to a company that I know who is doing the work and not getting someone different sending me a file each time.
I have used them both for years and would not pass their name along if I did not feel confident of their abilitys.
Justin at PunchlinePro and Tom Moore at StrawberryStitch.com
Both of which do all their work in the USA and produce top quality work !

Harleydude777 or Brent Burghy here........just a quick bump up on this post... ...... always looking for new clients......drop me an email at bburghy@mhtc.net for any questions or quotes you might have and please see my original post @ Digitizing here in GOOD Old U.S.A.

thanks again for your time.....

B. Burghy
bburghy@mhtc.net

My dad was in the Navy for 20 years, and I live in Oregon and digitize too. Let me know if you get backed up with work and I'll be glad to help you :-)

Kathi

The Wicked Stitch is a U.S. owned, operated American company. Our Senior Digiitizer/Owner, Jay Fishman, has over 30 years experience in the embroidery industry. He's been digitizing since the beginning and has a full comprehension of how things are embroidered. All our designs are manually digitized, not automated.

We also offer free quotes, with visual samples.

http://www.wickedstitch.com