Good reasons to outsource your embroidery digitizing

Embroidery is one of the most high-quality but also complex techniques for customizing textiles. 

The first complexity lies in the production file, essential to obtain quality embroidery: the embroidery program, or in other words, the digitized logo.  

This is the key element to achieving a beautiful embroidery, so its quality is paramount.  

Companies, distributors, or embroiderers often oscillate between keeping control over the production of embroidery digitizing and outsourcing it to focus 100% on the embroidery machine.

 

Here are 6 reasons that could convince you to outsource your embroidery digitizing. It will also allow to completely detach yourself from this part. Whether you are a beginner or not!

 

• Hire a digitizer is expensive and complex. 

 

Digitizing is often associated with a full-time position in companies. The possibility of having this skill in-house has its advantages (independence, responsiveness, familiarity with their own machine park) but also its disadvantages: it represents an additional cost for the company in addition to the investment in professional software.  

The profession of digitizer is also a rare commodity and difficult to find: very few people are trained nowadays, so recruiting for this type of skill is complex.

 

 

• The embroiderer who starts and makes their own digitizing is not immediately operational.

 

 An embroiderer who outsources their embroidery digitizing, whether they are experienced or a beginner, is immediately operational and can therefore focus their time on embroidery machine work.  

An experienced embroiderer should be able to focus on production, improve their productivity without worrying about digitizing the logo.

A beginner embroiderer may be discouraged from purchasing an industrial embroidery machine: they don’t know how to create an embroidery digitizing and learning will take time. They can attend a theoretical training, but they will develop their technical skills over time and through experience on an embroidery machine.  

Therefore, a beginner embroiderer would be better off delegating their embroidery digitizing to focus more on learning embroidery techniques and using their embroidery machine. Note: before becoming a good digitizer, you must be a good embroiderer first!

Superpictor allows embroiderers to be instantly operational thanks to the follow missions: embroidery digitizing and nicknames digitizing. 

 

Superpictor’s embroidery digitizing done by Vangart

 

 

• Invest in professional digitizer software is expensive

 

Investing in a professional digitizer software is very expensive and could cost around £8,000. Without pay the training hours required to the complex embroidery digitizing process. 

Finally, when an embroiderer starts out, investing in an embroidery workstation + embroidery digitizing software + training can be more expensive than paying for embroidery digitizing based on the fluctuations of their business activity.

 

 

• Digitizer / embroider is limited by the time. 

 

 

The digitizer can only produce a maximum number of high-quality embroidery digitizing in a certain amount of time. Human limitations are normal, but they can be a hindrance for the company during peak periods of activity.

To create a large number of embroidery digitizing as quickly as possible, you need a scalable solution that can adapt to fluctuations in demand while maintaining quality.

 

Superpictor guarantees scalability: we digitize as many logos as the distributors / embroiderer wants, as quickly as possible, while maintaining quality.  

Outsourcing embroidery digitizing can be extremely helpful during peak periods of activity to fulfill all demands, as well as during slow periods to limit costs.

 

Superpictor’s embroidery digitizing done by Vangart

 

 

• The errors rates and production defects are often higher when embroidery digitization is done in-house.

 

 

The process of digitizing embroidery designs is complex and requires extensive learning. Skills are acquired over time and with experience on the embroidery machine.  

Embroidery technique is not without flaws: embroidery workshops often experience errors or defects due to programming errors. For example: thread jamming if there are too many threads in one place, or thread breakage if the stitches are too far apart or too close together.

 

Programming is a real expertise that cannot be considered optional in the world of textile embroidery. It is a profession in its own right that requires total mastery of the stitching techniques.  

Not choosing the right fabric to embroider on during the creation of the embroidery digitizing is also one of the most common mistakes when starting out in embroidery.  

By choosing the right embroidery digitizing provider, you are guaranteed to receive a quality digitizing made by professional stitchers that adapts to your embroidery machine. With Superpictor, embroidery times and the risks of defects are minimized.

 

 

Superpictor’s embroidery digitizing done by Vangart

 

• Doing your picking internally is risky because your entire production process relies on your picker.

 

If your digitizer is sick, suffering, or has an accident and can't perform their job unexpectedly, then the entire production process comes to a halt. It's a significant industrial risk for a workshop to internalise 100% of its embroidery program picking.  

As a business owner, you want to ensure that your machinery and production keep running smoothly. If your picker is absent, your entire business is impacted, and hundreds of thousands of euros can be lost.  At the very least, it's essential to prepare for such situations and have a backup plan.

 

 

 

Superpictor’s embroidery digitizing done by Vangart

 

At Superpictor, we offer a clear and practical solution to these issues. Would you like to know more about our Embroidery digitizing service? One of our experts will contact you!

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