This message was posted by KGM on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: http://www.amayausers.com/boards/ultimatebb.php?/topic/4/305.html#000010 I do not have Design Shop Pro but we digitize all our own designs with another program. We digitize for 3-4 other companies now - cut way bk on the outside digitizing as I just don't have the time and do not accept new customers. I think it really depends on how you 'take' to digitizing whether you end up doing it on a regular basis or not. It takes a lot of patience and time - practice sewouts, classes or learning it with hands on.. Sometimes you will find it is not worth it if as another poster said he could do 300+ sewing and could not see the time it wld take digitize a company logo. I do think you really need to have a dependable digitizer that does what they say, sews well on your machine and you can trust. That takes a little time to build that relationship and sometimes some shopping around. I don't believe we -as a group- should hire foreign digitizers if we can help it. This is my experience: I've known several people that 'bought' chinese digitizing - > for a while. Out of 4 that I know - 2 had "identity stolen' crisis > shortly after they began buying from the China digitizers. Was that > coincidence? I don't know. Here is some info abt China overall that I found interesting in light of the flood of digitizers advertising from there: The Threat Behind Chinese Imports > > by Bridget Geegan Blanton > > The market place is awash in cheap Chinese goods in spite of massive > recalls on tainted toothpaste, dangerous tires, poisonous toys and > deadly dog food. Congress has paved the road for the ritual dumping > of substandard, Chinese manufactured products into our market. The > stark reality is that while America consumes cheap goods, China > funnels billions of our trade dollars into their military machine. Another quote from this article: > Meanwhile, in mainland China tyranny, misery and oppression abound. > Communist China is a police state that subjects female citizens to > coercive abortions and sterilizations. The abortifacient drug RU-486 > manufactured in China, recently reported to be tainted, is the > foundation of China's efforts at population control; a policy > endorsed by the world's elites. Land grabs for the purpose of > development are the norm and millions have already been forced to > relocate. Dissenters of any kind are executed quietly by lethal > injection inside "Mobile death vans" all over China. (source: BBC) If you want to read the rest - it is Msg 408 in the Yahoo Group - AmayaEmb. No I do think we should use Chinese digitizers. Jill =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================