A lot of those 'Cheap' digitizing shops are overseas where the labor costs are much lower than the U.S. I wouldn't feel comfortable giving my credit card number to a company I don't know. There are some that advertise in the trade magazines that seem to be affordable as well. I personally do the easy 3 or 4 color designs myself. But the more difficult designs go out to my digitizer. (Such as a logo with 10 different colors.) Maybe once I go to DesignShop training and get some digitizing training as well I will do it all in house. From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:20:00 -0500 One of the first designs I needed done was for 12 jackets-and a digitizer recommended by a Melco rep was going to charge $250 to do it! So after a couple days of trial and error with Designshop I had it done myself. There have been links posted to several '24 hour digitizing shops' with prices down to $25 or so for a design...but I have never used them. If your customers will pay for it, and you don't have the time, use a digitizing service. If you have the time, and the customers don't have the bucks-do it yourself! Except for some problems at times with hat designs, I'm doing pretty good. Next week will be the first true test with my designs and the new actifeed setup-haven't done any hats since I installed that except for testing when the machine was serviced. Roland