Why Embroidery?
When deciding upon screen printing or embroidery your first decision must be to determine what garment you will be promoting or wearing and decide which is the better option. Typically most t-shirts are screen printed and items such as golf shirts and jackets would be embroidered. Things like shorts or hoodies could go either way.
Canadian Custom Clothing offers both screen printing and embroidery options to the Calgary and area market with the choice being up to you and the project you are looking at.
Embroidery is a very cost effective option when you have a low run job (1-50 pieces) and/or your design has lots of colors. You are not restricted to the amount of colors you have in your design with embroidery as you are with screen printing, a good digitizer will add the appropriate color changes where needed to reproduce your design or logo perfectly.
Digitizing
As with screen printing your logo must be "digitized" into a format that an embroidery machine can read which can be a very tedious job for any digitizer on very complex jobs. There is automatic digitizing programs out there and a lot of people are going over seas for inexpensive digitizing services but the results are usually dismal and I would highly recommend having your logo professionally digitized if you want it perfectly reproduced. To digitize a logo properly your digitizer must enter every stitch into a piece of digitizing software and set the file up to sew in the proper sequence depending on what type of material you are sewing on or what the item being embroidered is. For example a hat must sew from the center out due to the curves in the hat.
Sewing
Once your properly digitized logo has been completed, it is time to run the job. Thread colors must be chosen and usually the client will need to see a thread chart to properly choose the colors they are after. Although a lot of Pantone colors are available, rolls of thread cost a significant amount of many so most outfits will not stock every shade of every color but typically will have a very close match to what you are after.
The embroiderist will need to place your garment into a hoop in the proper location of where your logo will be embroidered, this hoop then snaps into place on the embroidery machine itself. Once the proper colors of thread are loaded onto their spools and properly thread through the machine a piece of backing will be placed under the garment so the embroidery will hold properly on your garment. The sewing will commence now and the speed will be set appropriately for the complexity of the design being sewed.
Canadian Custom Clothing offers both screen printing and embroidery options to the Calgary and area market with the choice being up to you and the project you are looking at.
Embroidery is a very cost effective option when you have a low run job (1-50 pieces) and/or your design has lots of colors. You are not restricted to the amount of colors you have in your design with embroidery as you are with screen printing, a good digitizer will add the appropriate color changes where needed to reproduce your design or logo perfectly.
Digitizing
As with screen printing your logo must be "digitized" into a format that an embroidery machine can read which can be a very tedious job for any digitizer on very complex jobs. There is automatic digitizing programs out there and a lot of people are going over seas for inexpensive digitizing services but the results are usually dismal and I would highly recommend having your logo professionally digitized if you want it perfectly reproduced. To digitize a logo properly your digitizer must enter every stitch into a piece of digitizing software and set the file up to sew in the proper sequence depending on what type of material you are sewing on or what the item being embroidered is. For example a hat must sew from the center out due to the curves in the hat.
Sewing
Once your properly digitized logo has been completed, it is time to run the job. Thread colors must be chosen and usually the client will need to see a thread chart to properly choose the colors they are after. Although a lot of Pantone colors are available, rolls of thread cost a significant amount of many so most outfits will not stock every shade of every color but typically will have a very close match to what you are after.
The embroiderist will need to place your garment into a hoop in the proper location of where your logo will be embroidered, this hoop then snaps into place on the embroidery machine itself. Once the proper colors of thread are loaded onto their spools and properly thread through the machine a piece of backing will be placed under the garment so the embroidery will hold properly on your garment. The sewing will commence now and the speed will be set appropriately for the complexity of the design being sewed.
