Proper use of Promocodes… Promocodes are an internet marketing tool companies use to enhance their sales. As many of you know Qdigitizing also uses promocodes and while many of you take advantage of them many of you do not. But believe it or not we want you to use promocodes. We want you to take [...]
Reprinted from Stitches Magazine – Written By Steve Freeman First you outgrew that extra bedroom, and then your dining room. Now your home is bursting at the seams from your success as a “stay-at-home” embroidery professional. You can’t possibly squeeze another piece of equipment into your garage and you have no idea where to put [...]
Reprinted with permission from Stitches Magazine, Feb 2009 - Written by Steven Freeman Back in the late ’80s to mid-’90s, embroidery digitizing was enjoying its heyday in the United States. Digitizers, or punchers as they affectionately called one another, charged as much as $30 per 1,000 stitches to program a design. Vector art was still in [...]
Oops! University Misspells Its Own Name on $70K Worth of Canvas Book Bags I read this article today on Yahoo http://news.yahoo.com/oops-university-misspells-own-name-70k-worth-canvas-153200695.html and I thought I would share it with all of you. Anyone and everyone in the imprinted apparel or promotional product industry should read this article because I promise you, sooner or later this [...]
Originally published in Stitches Magazine March/April 2009. Written by Steven Freeman, reprinted with permission from Stitches Magazine When the only product you sell is the stitches you sew, you had better sew them well! Contract embroidery is a term often thrown around loosely in the world of commercial embroidery. But what does it mean, exactly? [...]
Welcome To Cora’s Corner, where every month I am going to help you with your artwork issues. This month’s discussion is how simple shapes can make your complicated design simple. Basic shapes like circles and rectangles (with some help from lines) are your best friend. Because it’s the holiday season I thought I would show [...]
Reprinted from Stitches Magazine, November 2008. Written by, Steven Freeman Go Mobile Have you ever considered taking your embroidery business on the road? Lots of embroiderers have made the leap – and been very successful. What could be more American than taking your show on the road? Lots of embroiderers who aren’t content to operate [...]
Welcome To Cora’s Corner, where every month I am going to help you with your artwork issues. This month I’m going to talk about Calibrating your Monitor to match your Output (Screen Printing). Calibrating Your Monitor Let me explain a few things before we get into the calibrating information. Closed System: Ok, we calibrate monitors [...]
Although some of same graphic programs and file formats can be used, the artwork for these two types of printing are set-up very differently. The big noticeable difference is screen print artwork needs to be separated into individual spot colors and DTG artwork does not. Screen print artwork is limited to how many colors the [...]
Hi Everyone… In just a week or two Qdigitizing will be launching our new App for Android, iPhone and Blackberry devices. All programming is complete and we are currently beta testing. As soon as we are ready to launch we will let everyone know through our internal mail servers, Facebook and Twitter. We are really [...]