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<\/a> is very illustrative of the challenge we have.\u00a0 Print and Display resolution are like the pen of the left while embroidery resolution is like the sharpie on the right.\u00a0 As you can see with the Sharpie name, the S and the E\u2019s fill while the T and V look blotchy.\u00a0 It is the same thing with thread.\u00a0 The absolute minimum size for any embroidery design element is the thickness of one thread or roughly 1mm.\u00a0 There is no physical way to make any line any more narrow than the width of a thread.\u00a0 As a result and especially with lettering and very fine detail the smaller a design element becomes the more difficult it becomes to embroidery with a high degree of clarity.<\/p>\nThe result of this reality is digitizers have to modify your art to work in our medium.\u00a0 We do this on virtually 100% of the art receive it just that it is much more apparent on some designs than others.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My point is not to beat anyone up on the art they submit.\u00a0 Rather, I want to educate my customers so we can help them better understand the challenges we all face in this industry.\u00a0 We all know that the faster we can turn an order the faster we can all get paid.\u00a0 We also know that custoemrs are for more demanding than they used to be.\u00a0 When I started in this busioess 10 days was considered a rush order.\u00a0 Now, for many people 2 and 3 day service is standard and rush is next day.\u00a0 IF you are working in a HOT MARKET environemnt you can help us better help you by getting in front of these issues before they become a time drain for you.\u00a0 Please remember, Qdigitizing cannot start a design until we know how to proceed.\u00a0 WE cannot take it upon ourselves to make wholesale correctiosn to your art.\u00a0 If we run into an issue which requires addional infomrtion we will be forced to put your order On Hold.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to\u2026I swear, but we can\u2019t just wing it.<\/p>\n IF you all would lie to see more examples like this with an explanation of why the files will\u00a0 ot work please drop me a line here or steve.freeman@qdigitzing.com<\/a> and I will make this an ongoing series of Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts for submitting embroidery orders.<\/p>\n No matter what I look forward to hearing from each and everyone of you.\u00a0 PLease drop me a line here or at the work email.<\/p>\n If I don\u2019t get a chance to speak or email with you in the next week or so I hope you will have a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>This first example is a beautiful design for screen display and print but if this were to be embroidered at the size requested the fine detail lines around the large letters would need to be programmed as walk stitches and the outline you can barely see around the bottom letters cannot be done at all, no matter what.\u00a0 The problem with walk stitch borders is many \u201cend users\u201d don\u2019t like how they sometimes look like a \u201cdashed line\u201d instead of a nice smooth line like a satin stitch. The problem here is if we program the detail stitches as satin stitches they become virtually the same width as the main letter and it doesn\u2019t look, \u201cright\u201d and the inside portions of letters like the R\u2019s A and inside corners of E\u2019s an Y would fill in.\u00a0 If we enlarge the design to maintain the proportions and correct for the fill in the image would become far too large for traditional left chest embroidery.\u00a0 We can program the detail with a walk stitch and technically it will be fine but whether or not the design is accepted from a subjective\/cosmetic standpoint will depend entirely on you and your customer.<\/p>\n<\/a>This second example is very typical of a request we will receive.\u00a0 This design is requested for caps.\u00a0 That means the maximum height for most of you is 2.25\u201d some can go up to 2.5\u201d but with this design it would not matter.\u00a0 When this design is reduced to cap size the small Longmont, CO will not be embroider-able, period.\u00a0 The letters will be far too small, even programmed as a walk stitch.\u00a0 There is nothing we can do about this unless the end user is willing to either delete this lettering entirely or agree to move the lettering to a different location in the design and allows us to make the lettering larger and out of proportion to the rest of the design.<\/p>\n<\/a>The final sample for today is very similar in issue to the second.\u00a0 I offer this because we received these orders one immediately after the other.\u00a0 At the requested design size it will not be possible to \u201ccleanly\u201d embroider the letters Sales and Service and NSCL #0057590. \u00a0\u00a0Aside from the fact the letters will be too small to embroider nicely what will happen is the letters will distort the small, thin lines that are underneath them.\u00a0 There is nothing we can do about the \u201cphysics\u201d of this reality.\u00a0 If it is possible to convoice the user to delete this feature they would wind up with a much nicer design.\u00a0 If the buyer insists the feature must be included maybe they can be talked in to putting this inforamtion under the design or better yet, on the sleeve.<\/p>\n