How to Digitize Your Logo for Embroidery - Full Guide
If you haven’t come across machine embroidery before, you might not know that the embroidery process is not as simple as just uploading the image onto the computer and letting the machines do the work. Even though AI has simplified a lot of the tasks in digitizing images for embroidery, it still needs some effort on the part of the workers to make sure that the logo comes out exactly as you want it to be.
Once you have figured out that you want to have the logo embroidered on the company merchandize, you need to choose the items you want to customize. Mostly logos are embroidered on company merchandize like bags, caps, bag packs, laptop bags, and badges.
But, before you get on to ordering the merchandize, here’s all you need to know about digitizing your logo for the embroidery:
What is Logo Digitization?
Unless the embroidery machines are provided with a set of commands, it cannot determine the type of embroidery, the number of stitches, and the sequence of the embroidery.
Logo digitization means taking a high quality image of the logo or any kind of artwork and converting it into a series of commands that enables the embroidery machine to stitch out the design.
How to Digitize Your Logo
Digitizing your logo first and foremost requires determining the type of files that the embroidery machine can read. If you are digitizing the logo in-house, you will have to move forward with converting the logo into the appropriate file type.
There are a lot of digitizing software available. Unless you are outsourcing the digitizing work to the expert team at Ambitious Embroidery, you will need to follow the following steps after choosing the software for digitizing your artwork:
Step 1: Upload Your Logo to the Digitizing Software
The first step is to simply upload the logo or the artwork file in JPG or PNG format into the software program. Make sure the artwork does not have any unnecessary white spaces around the image.
Step 2: Set Embroidery Design Size
The second step is to input the desired dimensions. Measuring the available space for the embroidery and then entering the dimensions is important to make sure that you are working on the right sized image.
Step 3: Choose Your Stitch Type
Choosing the stitch types of the different parts of the logo is the third step. You should also consider the type of fabric before deciding the stitch type to assure that the logo does not appear stiff or does not weigh down the fabric too much.
There are different types of stitch types available including straight stitches, satin stitch, and fill stitches.
Step 4: Set Stitch Direction
Next, you need to determine and input the stitch direction. In this step you will provide the machine with step-by-step instructions to stitch out the design, get the desired appearance, texture, and shades. Skipping this step will result in too many jumps, trims, and an unsightly embroidered pattern. Efficient stitch direction also saves up on material costs as well as time.
Step 5: Set Your Embroidery Thread Colors
Matching the embroidery thread to the colors of the logo is the next step and essential in getting the exact look of the logo.
Step 6: Transfer the File to Your Embroidery Machine
The next step is to export the file in jef, exp, or dst format and then upload it onto the embroidery machine. This is followed by preparing the machine for embroidering before you can get ready for embroidering the final pieces.
Leave it to the Experts
Logo is one of the essential elements of a company’s brand. Therefore, preserving its look and colors on company merchandize is very important. Ambitious Embroidery experts make sure that your logo is digitized to perfection and the embroidery on your merchandize depicts quality.
