Hi everybody ! Well here goes nothin'. I am brand new to this business . I have purchased some Amaya machines. I was trained in July but then had to take some time off in August. I have been sewing up designs just to practice. I don't have any customers yet. Thank goodness. I would be going balistic. I haven't got all the bugs out yet. I love the machines so far. I have been able to sew 30,000 stitch designs without a thread break. Dakota Designs come out beautifully and I have been able to size them, add fonts, etc. with DSpro+. I have also been purchasing designs from other companies to round out my catalog. That's where I have run into a little problem. I have bought from Stitichize and Embroidery Library. When I download the designs into my DS program the designs have thread trails in them. In the tree to the right there are no trim commands. There are color changes. I talked to Trevor at Sitichitize and he said no one had brought this to his attention before but thought that maybe when he transferred his digitizing from his program over to the Melco program the trim commands were being dropped. He was going to look into it but I haven't heard back from him and it has been a couple of weeks. Someone else told me that's the way it is and he just cleans up the designs himself. I don't want to have to clean them up myself if I am missing something here and everyone else downloads these designs and they are just fine. I've been reading the list for awhile and really enjoy everyones ideas and humor. I guess we have to stick together. Would anyone care to comment on this problem and also any other good design sources? Look forward to your ideas. Peggy King Walnut Creek, CA