What is Digitizing or Punching?
Digitizing and Punching are universal terms and is the process by which an embroidery artist turns the design of your artwork into thread. This is a fairly complex operation and it takes years of training and practice to become a master of the art. There are many considerations that must be taken into account such as the item to be sewn on…Leather, Cotton, Pique, thin, thick, soft, hard and so on. Each garment has certain properties that will effect the way the stitches will push and pull the garment. A good digitizer must be conscious of these physics in order to produce a high quality design that you and the digitizer will be proud of. It’s more complex than just scanning in the image and pressing a button. Some designs are so complex they can take a week of constant work to complete, but the average design can normally be completed in a day or less once it is started. Digitizing is a process in which we program the design to run on a sewing machine. Sewing is nothing like printing
