Looking for digitizer for small text

[IntegrityShirts]

This is the logo here at my day job. They have always had issues finding someone to reproduce this logo due to the size of the text. The logo needs to be stitched left chest all the time every time. I'm looking for a digitizer that can produce a quality dst file that I can buy to keep on file to send as needed to vendors. If you all have any opinions on how to stitch this, I'm all ears. They don't want this thing huge on the shirts, but I understand it's going to be taller than a standard left chest due to the amount of text. Thanks!

[T Shirt Farmer]

Not to say this can not be done but the logo is so embroidery unfriendly, the amount of text and the size will be very challenging. You may suggest a woven label from HPI that can be embroidered onto garments.

[royster13]

Even if you get this digitized it will still require a "very skilled embroiderer".....You can send the same file to many places and get results that are worlds apart...

[IntegrityShirts]

Even if you get this digitized it will still require a "very skilled embroiderer".....You can send the same file to many places and get results that are worlds apart...

Thanks for the opinion and I agree. They're perfectly ok with ordering from the company that digitizes it for consistency, or any good embroiderer for that matter. Doesn't have to be local, just needs to be consistently nice quality.

[Audifox]

Another thing that has to be considered is the garment itself.
A pique knit is not going to sew out nowhere near as nice as a performance material.

[Frog]

I'd be curious to see a pic of a finished shirt. I can't help but think that this particular design would be better served as a screen print.
Now, if they really wanted embroidery to stay "classy", I might try to talk them into a more understated look that would also be more stitch friendly like my two examples on the right. I think that not only does the original art contain elements which are too small, but I think it's too busy.

[mimosatexas]

I agree with Frog.  You could even do a combination of embroidery and heatpressed transfers for the text for the best of both worlds.

[IntegrityShirts]

Since I have a say in deciding, I would avoid a pique knit polo at all costs and push for a performance knit. Here's what we're getting back from our vendors and this is acceptable BUT, every time we place a new order, we get different results. So I just want to pay someone for a digitized file that we can send out and know that at least one variable is accounted for.

If any of you do mail order type stuff like this for organizations regularly, I'm more than happy to pitch some business your way.

[IntegrityShirts]

I'd be curious to see a pic of a finished shirt. I can't help but think that this particular design would be better served as a screen print.
Now, if they really wanted embroidery to stay "classy", I might try to talk them into a more understated look that would also be more stitch friendly like my two examples on the right. I think that not only does the original art contain elements which are too small, but I think it's too busy.

We do eliminate the text when absolutely necessary, but these will be for orientation and each student gets one so it has to have the full wording.  I agree that this logo screams to be screen printed and I have printed it in the past (before I was an employee here) but only on tshirts. They like the "nice" factor of embroidery.

[Frog]

Since I have a say in deciding, I would avoid a pique knit polo at all costs and push for a performance knit. Here's what we're getting back from our vendors and this is acceptable BUT, every time we place a new order, we get different results. So I just want to pay someone for a digitized file that we can send out and know that at least one variable is accounted for.

If any of you do mail order type stuff like this for organizations regularly, I'm more than happy to pitch some business your way.

Are embroiders always okay with outside-supplied digitized files? Or is it ever like those times when some joker brings in their old screens to keep costs down.
Of course, digitized files don't lose tension, but as mentioned, they are fabric specific.

[Frog]

Since I have a say in deciding, I would avoid a pique knit polo at all costs and push for a performance knit. Here's what we're getting back from our vendors and this is acceptable BUT, every time we place a new order, we get different results. So I just want to pay someone for a digitized file that we can send out and know that at least one variable is accounted for.

If any of you do mail order type stuff like this for organizations regularly, I'm more than happy to pitch some business your way.

Are embroiders always okay with outside-supplied digitized files? Or is it ever like those times when some joker brings in their old screens to keep costs down.
Of course, digitized files don't lose tension, but as mentioned, they are fabric specific.

For as long as I can remember, and wiith expensive polos especially, I have always sold the understated look as going hand in hand. For that matter, having the initials and then saying what they stand for could be viewed as redundant.

[royster13]

Having your own file does not solve anything....A bad embroider can "ruin" a perfectly good file and a great embroiderer can "fix" a poor file....Once you find an embroiderer that gives you what you are looking for, stick with them and the garment.....As soon as you change you may have to start all over again....

[IntegrityShirts]

Having your own file does not solve anything....A bad embroider can "ruin" a perfectly good file and a great embroiderer can "fix" a poor file....Once you find an embroiderer that gives you what you are looking for, stick with them and the garment.....As soon as you change you may have to start all over again....

Agreed. The pic was a great example of that. We ordered them locally at our Auburn Alabama school. Then they re-ordered from the same company and got a completely different result. Turns out the company outsources embroidery. In Virginia we're in a rural area and don't have access to a lot of in-house known-to-be-great embroiderers. From my SHORT experience owning an embroidery machine, if the file isn't right, there's zero chance it'll come out right.

[Grand]

Hi we are located in CT. Send me the file and we can sew out a free swatch or prepro to show what we can do. 25 years experience in embroidery. In house digitizers. Family own and operated with pride. We do wholesale and retail work. Grandembroidery.com

[sweetts]

24 hour artwork does digitizing we have used them a lot as of late

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