Sell it but cannot SPELL it

Calm down, I was kidding. A 12" tall flexfit top hat with a flat bill that fit's anyone? Doesn't exist, it was a fictional product and my attempt at sarcasm.

I've done up to 2 3/4 with a barudan on a hat. ZSK goes HAL9000 if you try anything over what's in the travel limit part of the machine software. I tricked it by telling the machine it was sewing a tubular frame (hopefully it will open the pod bay doors when I ask it to). Didn't really like it but it sewed a 2 1/2 " tall design. I'd prefer to tell customers that I can only do the 2x4 deal but they just go somewhere else so sometimes we have to ignore the limits and figure it out.

I'll agree that some people just don't get it as far as embroidery goes. I get a fair amount of parents that want their kid's name on a backpack. When I tell them I'm limited to around 3" wide they get bent even after explaining that the manufacturer really didn't leave me many options with all the small pockets on the front and inside attached to the area in which the embroidery should be.

I just use the force. That way you don't even have to turn the machine on. When a customer comes in I wave my hand and say "this isn't the embroidery you're looking for, move along". Helps if they pay first though.

FYI... you just did it.

He said it seems like a secret society and no one wants to give up any information and you just pointed him to google and youtube without giving any of the information he was asking about. ;)

I know you aren't being a tool and really meant what you said, but I was geeked up hoping to gleam a bit of insight as well from you and not some random search info.

Sorry, but I've googled my butt off and the info is still hard to find and no one wants to talk about it... this thread included. :)

I would say there really is no set standard is why you don't find what you are looking for. My view is that if a person wants a name/design on a item I want to put it as large as possible. Why bother putting a name or logo on a shirt so small you can't read it.

Each font has different characteristics. I've found that the prescribed density and underlay for a certain font doesn't work well so I have to adjust the settings after a sewout. I then make notes of what works and what doesn't. Also I've noticed a slight difference between machine manufacturers on fonts as well. Hell, even certain fonts I won't use because I don't like the way they sew out. I really like free step in my Compucon software because of the dimension it shows and the durability of it.

You really have to spend some time just experimenting with all the parameters on scrap material to get an idea of what your machine will produce. I don't think you'll find that on many tutorials. Tutorials only give the basics.

Maybe that is the problem... it just seems hard to find even the most basic "guidelines" on this stuff.

I start salivating when I'm in a shop that I know produces top quality stuff, I'm waiting for my chance to ask a million questions on how they do X, Y or Z. :)

Texting is making people dumber.

If you think their spelling is bad...try to get them to read something!

Ask away.

That reminds me when I first moved here to Seattle and was working for a local emb. production company. There was a design with the word Washington and it went through three people and through production before someone realized the g was missing. Their artist, our artist and my boss who digitized it. It took him a while to live that one down.

That's just a reflection of today's educational system - spelling and grammar are not important; the important thing is that the message gets across.

Unfortunately, all too often the message that gets across is that the author is illiterate...

Are there guidelines for embroidery? I would like yo add it to our offering but want to learn the lingo and requirements and what not. It seems its harder to get embroidery information as opposed to screen printing.. Kinda like a secret society... Lol

Sort of like "We learned this in Collage"

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Reminds me of a story. A young man in the early 1900's parents were having a hard time making it. They told their 9-10 year old son (don't remember the exact age) that he would have to go out and support himself as they no longer could afford it. He went to work as an accountant for a company and by the age of 22 he had the title as President of that same company. He then commissioned a novice architect who really needed work to build a place for his entire family. Later he funded many more projects that got the architect's name out there. The architect's name was Frank Lloyd Wright.

All this by a kid who never finished school and never went to college. Now we have "educated" people that have no understand of spelling and grammar as well as how things work.

I had roughly 8 hours of training on the machine and software. While I still don't digitize yet, everything else I learned by myself (with the occasional call to tech support). The only real problem I have is seeing that tiny needle opening with reading glasses.

This is the best post I have seen in a while! This is how I have been feeling lately! I am tired of seeing designs that the height is double the width and they want it to go on a hat with maximum height of 2". When people are "creating a logo for embroidery" please consider if you plan on putting it on hats! People say they created it just for embroidery yet the logo is so tall compared to the width that when you bring it down to 2" height all the detail is lost and they don't understand why. There are rules to embroidery but sometimes plain common sense can work too.

You're putting the design on the wrong hat. Haven't you heard of the 6 panel flexfit top hat? 12" in height with a flat bill fitting all sizes.

Umm....minimalist. Did you read what I wrote:confused:
I am the digitizer. I get the order from the customer. So, if they want the design to be 2" height due to their cap frame, that is what I give them. Again, I am the digitizer so I am not on the production end. I don't see the hat, I don't pick out the hat, I don't run the hats.....I digitize what the customer wants.
So, if the customer can only run 2" height due to the cap frame constraints, there is nothing on my end I can do about it:D

My point was that the customer has constraints of 2" height yet the logo which were "made for embroidery" are way to tall compared to the width. Get it???

Your answer makes no sense. I am not the one putting the design on the hat or picking out the hat. I digitize the design according to their cap frame constraints and what they ask for. I don't tell them what cap to order. That is between them and their customer.