Digitizers

You may be a digitizer “wanna be”, a digitizer looking for a solid foundation, or an embroidery company thinking of expanding into digitizing. You’ll find professionally designed instruction along with thought provoking ideas that are sure to open your eyes to the digital side of embroidery.

If you ask, “What is digitizing for embroidery?” you’ll get back as many answers as people you ask the question. What is more interesting is the wide range of answers you’ll receive. This is mostly due to the various levels of embroidery knowledge of those involved in the computerized embroidery industry, ranging from digitizers, to embroiderers, to sales people.I like to reflect on the caller that insisted he had their company logo digitized and have it on disk, only to produce a graphic image. This isn’t an unusual tale for embroiderers, and honestly it isn’t as far from the truth as embroidery professionals may think. The use of the term “digitize” as embroiderers would know it, is restricted to the field of computerized embroidery. It’s not that the caller didn’t have their logo digitized, but that it hadn’t been digitized for embroidery. This is where a digitizer comes in.

Your next question may be, “What is a Digitizer?” Is it a machine? Is it a computer? Is it a piece of software? Is it a person? The answer to those questions would all be “Yes”. Foremost, a digitizer is a person, and he must have a machine, a computer and a piece of software. There’s more to it than that though. To be a good digitizer you must have much more than big ticket purchases. You must also have talent, skill and passion. Not the easiest of things to put your finger on and something most digitizers may claim to possess, but the proof is in their work. I prefer to call the person who possesses these qualities a designer.

Yes, a digitizer is a designer.