I don't normally try to push a digitizer but these seems relevant so I am going to share my digitizer with you. I use Clearsky24/7 and they are 24 hour turnaround and do very good work. They are a flat rate digitizer. L/C designs are $30-$50. You can have the same design made for hats for $20 extra or a hat design by itself is the same as L/C. Full backs are $125 - $200 (I just had a building with 4 different cars in the logo digitized for $175). I have had around 100 designs done by them since last Sept and have been very happy. I just got done sewing 72 full back jackets w/ a 72k design they digitized and I had a total of 4 thread breaks on them. The front has some lettering in a banner that is .15" tall and has not broke once on it yet. The fronts just break every 3 or 4 jackets on some small stars in the logo and run excellent other than that (front is 15K). These people are out of TX so they are not an overseas company. They do not use Design Shop software so you receive files in .dst format. Contact Info: Clearsky24 4440 Lawnview Ave Dallas, TX 75227 800 895 6360 digitizing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx If anyone wants me to send them a few designs they have digitized for me let me know off list and I will send a few samples. Aaron Sargent The Linen Barn linen@xxxxxxxxxxx 541-770-2957 Medford, OR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Cohen" <steve208321@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:41 AM Subject: [amayausers] Re: Auto digitizing >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 > > >