Expert embroidery digitizing in quick turnaround time are a must for embroidery business owners to ensure that their clients’ designs are stitched accurately and in high-quality. This process involves converting the original design file into an embroidery format that is compatible with the embroidery machine’s software. The digitized file can be either manually mapped by the digitizer, or automatically mapped using the automated features of some embroidery software programs. Manual digitizing often yields better results for complex designs and fine details.

Digitizing for embroidery can be a tedious job and requires years of hands-on experience to master. A good digitizer knows how the lines he finds in his software will lay on different textures, including polar fleece and pique nets, which can sink stitches into the fabric rather than laying them on top of it. He also understands how the outlines of a design will be affected by thread density and push/pull.

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In addition to ensuring that the final stitched logo will look great on a variety of fabrics, an experienced digitizer considers the color scheme, size and complexity of the design when creating a file. This is important because not every photorealistic image can be embroidered, and if the design is too large it could result in sloppy stitching.

In some cases, the digitizer may even need to modify the artwork for embroidery. For example, a vector-based graphic that has been created in Adobe Illustrator and saved as a.EPS or.AI file won’t work on an embroidery machine because these files don’t contain the information the embroidery software needs to interpret the design. The digitizer can either hand-map the design by drawing it on a piece of paper and then scanning it, or use automatic digitalization features in some embroidery software programs to assign stitch points.