Overview
The main cause of disappointment and confusion in the world of cheap embroidery digitizing is the thin line between what people want and what they get. Most of the time, clients don’t understand how limited thread is and think it’s ink. A thread doesn’t give you as much freedom as an ink does.
This lack of knowledge about how digitizing and thread are used and what the final results are leads to the loss of the client and disappointment for the digitizer. It’s important to remember that not every design, no matter how nice it looks, is meant to be embroidered as a copy.
But embroidery digitizers have a few tricks they can use to make their clients’ wishes come true, but they don’t always work.
To keep the good reputation of your cheap embroidery digitizing service and the client, we need to know about the problem areas and how to deal with them. Here, we’ll talk about how to digitize for embroidery and what to do and what not to do.
The Effect of Shading
It’s easier to play with light and dark when you’re using something you can touch, like ink. But it’s hard to create the effect of colors blending digitally with a thread. The same effect can be made with digitizing software just like it can be made with printing, but it would be a whole different story if you tried to do it with thread. When you get a hard order, the first thing you should do is tell the client about any problems that might come up. The client must know that the final result can be different from one case to the next and that different factors affect the final result. How the project turns out will depend on the colors and quality of the threads. It will be more about how the threads shine and make it look like they are reflecting.
Stay Away from Distressed Effects
Of all the tasks, the distressed effect is the most confusing, so we probably should have put it first. Don’t try distressed effect logos unless you know what you’re doing and are getting paid well to digitize them. It would be nearly impossible to make the same effect with embroidery. It takes a lot of work, like changing stitches at random, trying out the end result on the actual garment, sampling, re-sampling, and so on.
The only good thing about it is that it’s meant to look rough, but there’s a reason for that. Don’t mistake it for random art. There is also a big choice about whether to leave empty spaces that could be filled later or to cut holes in the fabric.
The Limits of Cap Logo Embroidery
Logo embroidery on caps is a very popular way to decorate them, and most of the orders digitizers get are for hat embroidery. It may sound easy, but there are pros and cons to it. The design on a cap can be no higher than 2.25 inches, but if it’s higher than that, you’re getting into troublesome territory.
Embroidery Digitizers must be able to tell the difference between a design that can be made and one that can’t be made and will break machine needles and cause caps to be lost. You would have always seen that the logos of most well-known companies are simple. They are easy to make and, from a marketing point of view, leave a better impression on customers.
Look at how clean and simple the logos for Nike and Calvin Klein are. They are obviously more effective than lettering that is hard to read. Since your job is to digitize and not to design, all you can do is tell the client what might happen. You can suggest that they take off the outer ring and the smaller letters. Or, they could save the big designs for the backs of the jackets and use something simpler for the hats and caps.
Overdone Lettering
Less is more, as the well-known saying goes. It fits well with the world of digitizing, especially when it comes to lettering that is too much. A key part of a digitizer’s job is to help the customer understand what designs will work for them and what won’t.
When you have to fit too much small or tiny writing into a space as small as 2.5 inches, you should know better than to do that. The worst mistake a digitizer can make is to sew out a letter wrong, because everyone would see it right away. So, give the client a better option or turn down the job to avoid any trouble.