[amayausers] Re: Amaya Specific Digitizers Myth
- From: <suried@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:30:14 -0800 (PST)
Anand,
I am a mm person too.
5pts= .05mm and 10pts=.01mm
Hope this helps.
Susan
--- Kesavan <kesavan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rod,
>
> I am not sure if you run any other machines along
> side the Amaya. I do
> I find that all the designs that I run on the other
> machines run equally
> well on the Amaya. That=92s why I stated that
> special digitizing for the
> Amaya is a Myth.
>
> I am an mm (millimetre) person so how do you compare
> 5 points to 10
> points in mm converted? The smallest I would
> recommend in lettering is
> 4mm and I have no problem with that on the Amaya.=20
>
> When I bought my Amaya I tested one of my designs to
> make sure it runs
> the same as one of the other brands of machines
> including metallic
> thread. The machine ran at 1200 spm with metallic.
> The Australian Melco
> Agent will confirm or deny that. I have to slow my
> other machines down
> to run metallic.
>
> I am not beating my drum here about my digitizing
> because... There are a
> lot more digitizers out there that are heaps
> better... I gave up doing
> work for other new embroiderers a long time ago
> because of injury
> (carpel) due to too much digitizing. Id still look
> at a design to help a
> newbie though without charge.
>
> Unrelated - About Business Practices - I read a book
> about finite and
> infinite business practices and Toyotas production
> practice as in cars
> not embroidery machines + business practices of the
> tiger economies.
> There was heaps to learn.
>
> My Guess is Any one aspiring to be a contract
> embroiderer would have to
> charge 5 to 25 cents per 1000 stitches and turn
> around 5k to 10k
> embroidered designs per day. Any one on the list
> please correct me if I
> am wrong.
>
> Anand
>
>
>
>
>
> Anand,
> The major differences with the Amaya and digitized
> designs is the speed
> and=20
> needle placement. Probably what we should be talking
> about in this=20
> discussion is not digitizing, but editing of designs
> in general. Two
> things=20
> about the Amaya I and others have noticed, is that
> the Amayas do not
> like=20
> short stitches in a design and along the same line,
> it does not like
> super=20
> small columns, as in small lettering. The cure for
> this is to learn how
> to=20
> use the software.h
>
> An example of this is to select the entire design,
> Properties, Column
> and=20
> at the bottom of the display window, change the
> "minimum column width"
> to 10=20
> points instead of the default 5 points. This plus
> the ability to adjust=20
> thread feeds, material thickness, stitch lengths,
> reduce overall
> stitches,=20
> etc, etc, will make it possible to edit any design
> to run flawlessly
> with an=20
> absolute minimum of thread breaks.
>
> All anyone is saying about digitizing for the Amaya
> is that if the
> digitizer=20
> has an Amaya he can verify a given design on, he
> will usually do the=20
> footwork for the customer letting him know the best
> settings and speed
> he=20
> ran the design at to achieve the best results. If a
> person wants to slow
> the=20
> Amaya down to the slower speeds some of the other
> machines run at, than
> you=20
> may need less editing of individual designs. Some
> designs need quite a
> lot=20
> and others don't need any.
>
> Adjusting and editing designs so the Amaya can run
> at 12 to 1300+ does
> not=20
> 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=20
> but clean up the fuel and increase the octane and it
> will perform much=20
> better. The same applies to any given design--clean
> it up and it will
> run=20
> 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 -----=20
> 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=20
> > 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=20
> > machines including the Amaya.
> >
> > Anand
> >
> >
> >
> > As John has pointed out-this already digitized
> design is NOT well=20
> > 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
>
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Susan Riedlinger
Embroidery Station
Columbus, OH
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