[amayausers] Re: : Amaya Specific Digitizers Myth

Anand,
The major differences with the Amaya and digitized designs is the speed and 
needle placement. Probably what we should be talking about in this 
discussion is not digitizing, but editing of designs in general. Two things 
about the Amaya I and others have noticed, is that the Amayas do not like 
short stitches in a design and along the same line, it does not like super 
small columns, as in small lettering. The cure for this is to learn how to 
use the software.

 An example of this is to select the entire design, Properties, Column and 
at the bottom of the display window, change the "minimum column width" to 10 
points instead of the default 5 points. This plus the ability to adjust 
thread feeds, material thickness, stitch lengths, reduce overall stitches, 
etc, etc, will make it possible to edit any design to run flawlessly with an 
absolute minimum of thread breaks.

All anyone is saying about digitizing for the Amaya is that if the digitizer 
has an Amaya he can verify a given design on, he will usually do the 
footwork for the customer letting him know the best settings and speed he 
ran the design at to achieve the best results. If a person wants to slow the 
Amaya down to the slower speeds some of the other machines run at, than you 
may need less editing of individual designs. Some designs need quite a lot 
and others don't need any.

Adjusting and editing designs so the Amaya can run at 12 to 1300+ does not 
make it an inferior machine in my book. An analogy would be kind of like 
having a high performance racecar. Feed it 85 octane fuel, it will still run 
but clean up the fuel and increase the octane and it will perform much 
better. The same applies to any given design--clean it up and it will run 
better on any machine, especially one that is running at high speed........

Rod Springer

Rod & Sharon Springer
Embroidery Cottage
Melco Amaya Technician & Trainers
Design Shop Pro+  & Digitizing
Boise, ID  83713
208-938-3038
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kesavan" <kesavan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:02 PM
Subject: [amayausers] : Amaya Specific Digitizers Myth


> My designs run well  on my  the happy, tajima and amaya .
>
> If  one had to digitze specially for the Amaya that would make the Amaya
> an inferior machine in my books.
>
> A badly digitized design will run badly on every brand of machine.
>
> I would like to hear input from others who own other brands of machines
> including the Amaya.
>
> Anand
>
>
>
> As John has pointed out-this already digitized design is NOT well
> digitized
> and does NOT sew out well.
> Yes, a 'well digitized design' WILL run better on all machines-but a
> 'well digitized' design that is 'optimized' for an Amaya will run better
> on that Amaya, and most likely superior on other machines. The problem
> being with this design-that 'someone' thought it ran fine on their
> system-and it looks like garbage. Customer isn't pleased with it-and
> since John wants to put out a superior product, he wants to have it
> digitized for his Amaya. What's the big deal? I understand exactly what
> he is saying. I deal with garbage all day long from clients and even
> their 'media agents' that think they know how to do graphics simply
> because they are sitting in front of a computer that makes nice colors.
> Just because their logo looks 'perfect' on their computer does NOT mean
> it will work as the artwork I need to print their banner, or screen
> their shirts...and means I have to 'digitize' it for each one of my
> applications. Equipment specific digitizing-to get optimum results. Just
> 3 days ago after several phone calls and emails explaining what I needed
> for a ONE COLOR design for his bar glass imprints-my 'educated' client
> sends me the result...a 72 dpi jpg in EIGHT colors. To him, that is a
> one color image. Yup....1 color for the main
> outlines and
> larger areas-with 7 other shades or color fills.
> This design I've looked at for John has multiple outlines and shadows
> around 1/4" letters, 'shading' on 3/16" wide oval outlines, with back
> shadow
> behind those...no wonder it sews like mud!
>
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