if I were an embroiderer would I want a jpg or eps file?

[gabagoo]

I can't think of how many customers of mine ask for their logo so it can go for embroidery.
I always ask them what kind of file the embroiderer wants and they say jpg. Is this true? Why would they not want an eps file completely vectored and perfect?

So naturally today a guy calls at 5:15 for just that. I ask, and he says jpg. I told him I would send him an eps file as I think it would be better and since your going to have to pay this guy to set the logo up for embroidery, possibly an eps file will be less costly.

Am I wrong in that thinking?

I send him the eps file.

10 minutes later a return e-mail...."Can you send us a jpg as well?"


Do they do this because they (the customer) can't open the eps file?

I am stumped, but from now on jpgs are all they are getting!!!!

No more mr nice guy!!

 

[J Hill Designs]

send both and call it good

 

[Fuzzbuster]

all you njeed is a .jpg
and it doesn`t need to be high res at all
rendering for stitch placement needs .jpg only

Cheers

 

[ChiknNutz]

Confounds me too, as I've had the same request to provide a bitmap image as "preferred" even if they can use the vector format. Dunno why.

 

[47CP]

This always puzzled me, until we got an embroidery machine in house and I started doing a little digitizing.

There is no "import" of a file into a sew able format. Actually, there are auto digitizing programs, but they almost universally produce bad results. So, the procedure is to import the file to use as a template, and essentially trace over it with the various stitch tools to produce an end product. Like anything, there are tricks that you can use to cut down on the time, but the file is produced by hand, using the original as the template.

So, an EPS doesn't do them any good. A JPG is fine.

HTH,

DaveW

 

[parkedcar]

Here's the real question. Why are you sending the customer off to an embroiderer when you can offer the service yourself? There are mechant members here that offer embroidery, and you can make a few more bucks off the customer.

 

[wildside]

with digitizing it does not matter what file format really, most prefer jpg, we prefer EPS.

what we do is open in corel, change to CMX, then with our "experience" embroidery software, when we digitize it will snap to the outline, with a jpg you have to maticuosly go around the object, the CMX file saves us about a half hour on most digitizing setups

so we are the odd balls that want EPS files, but usually they are sign customers anyhow

 

[Zambookajoe]

Ive been doing embroidery for ten years and for the way I do things an eps. saves me lots of time in digitizing but Im used to vectors and a lot a people dont know the diffrence between a eps or a bmp. so for some who only do embroidery I think they are missing out on a time saver and sometimes a 2 second digitizing and a good deal for good customers.

 

[Cadmn]

digitizing is a whole different world from vector graphics unless you have Drawings but most is hand digitized thus any useable file for background for tracing is acceptable

 

[binki]

We convert all images to vector for digitizing.

 

[Vital Designs]

Each embroiderer will be different.

If they manually digitize it then, (as mentioned in previous posts) usually means they will want a jpg as it is the most common file for the various programs to open.
If the digitizer uses an auto digitizing software such as draWings they would prefer a vector based file because its algorithms require vectors. If not, the jpg would have to be vectorized first anyway.

Thus, just best to send both.