Embroidery File Formats that We Can Do
There are many different embroidery file formats for different commercial embroidery machines and home sewing machines. We can digitize most of them if not all. If there are any formats that we cannot do, chances are, your machine will support multiple formats and there will be one or more of those formats that we can do. This has always been the case in our practice, and we have almost never turned anyone away. Below is a list of the formats that we can do.
Machine Manufacture & File Formats
Artista Design
Babylock, Brother, Deco
Babylock, Brother, Deco
Barudan
Barudan
Barudan
Compucon/Singer
Explorations Templates
Explorations Projects
Happy
Hiraoka DAT
Hiraoka VEP
Husqvarna/Viking
Husqvarna/Viking/Pfaff
Janome/Elna/Kenmore
Janome/Elna/Kenmore
Melco
Melco
Pfaff
Pfaff
Pfaff
Pfaff
Pfaff
Poem, Huskygram, Singer
Saurer SLC
Tajima
Tajima
Time and Space MJD
Toyota
Wilcom
Wilcom ESL
Wilcom ESS
Wilcom Plauen
Wilcom Saurer
Wings System
Zangs
ZSK
ZSK
ZSK TC
Artwork File Formats that You Can Submit
We recommend that you prepare your artwork or ask your client to submit artwork in one of these formats for both digitizing and vector:
| JPG | good choice for images with many colours, photos, scanned images, etc. |
| PNG, GIF | ideal for designs with fewer colours, especially larger areas of solid colours. e.g. text, logo. |
| PDF, EPS, AI | these are vector formats meaning the artwork can be easily scaled. Don't forget to convert fonts used in the design into outlines. |
| DOCX | some clients do send these, it is ok. Just keep in mind that instead of embedding an image to a Word document that may lower its quality, you can just send that image. |
| TIFF, BMP | these will work, but the file size may be huge. Alternatively, JPG may be a better format to use. |
| PSD | Photoshop file is not ideal, it may show up differently on our computer especially if it contains font layer. Please save it as JPG, PNG or PDF format. |
| CDR, SVG | Sorry we can't open these files, please save them as JPG, PNG or PDF format. |
If you've got a different format, send it anyway - we'll let you know if we can't open it.
Two important factors to consider - image size and file size. We suggest that you submit a relatively large image, ideally at 300dpi resolution (e.g. if the desired size is 3" x 3", at 300 dpi, the image size will be 900 x 900 pixels) recommended to be below 9MB file size. Again, please keep in mind that generally JPG and PNG are good in compression, while TIFF and BMP may be 10 times bigger. And you can also avail our vector service to get a premium artwork for your embroidery design.
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