Aaron: Can you elaborate on the Clamping system? Thanks, -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Linen Barn Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 1:36 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: die-cut lettering That sounds about right. I ordered Stockstitch 4 or 5 years ago and just updated about 1 1/2 years ago for around $100 I think. You can get around the min orders for stock #'s being a E-Line member but the cost of the custome ones sounds right. I have a custom 2 color script design that goes into a baseball bat under the text that runs around $7 per applique (or die cut). I put these on a softball teams jersees and charge them around $10 to sew it on. By the time I make my markup on the shirts, sell them blank shorts and make $10 for the sewing I do pretty well. I in turn order the 6 or 8" #'s from Dalco, use stockstitch to create the files and charge $5 per # on the back. I can do a team of 12-15 uniforms on one machine in a day. I am a little bigger shop than you and can justify the cost of the software and it has paid for itself many times over for me. Same with the clamping system I purchased for around $400. I made my money back on the first few hundred hat back I did and it takes about 1/4 of the time it took using the fastframes I had before. You can also check with Stahls for die cut. I have never used them but alot of people do. Gein Feil from Dalco monitors the E-Line so if you have any questions you can probably find him on E-Line. They made a mistake on a rush order for some Cheerleader jackets I did with die cut letters and a paw and he re-cut them and send them out that day overnight UPS so I still was able to finish on time. Great guy to work with although he is very difficult to get a hold of by phone, e-mail is the way to go. Let me know if you have any more questions. Aaron Sargent The Linen Barn linen@xxxxxxxxxxx Medford, Oregon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Captain Gold" <captaingold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 11:00 AM Subject: [amayausers] Re: die-cut lettering > Aaron, > > How much does all that cost? From what I saw on their web site, I'd need to > invest in a minimum number of each letter (which wasn't too bad), but the > Stockstitch program was $300? If I choose custom work, it's a minimum of 10 > and $25 for the disk? Was I reading that wrong? > > Connie > > Wyvern Productions > Painting masterpieces in thread. > http://www.wyvernproductions.com > > At 01:34 PM 8/23/04, you wrote: > >Connie, > > > >I use Dalco for my die cut needs. You can have custom patterns made in > >which they send you a sew disk. I bought Stockstitch ver 5 which allows me > >to use any of their stock letters, #'s or symbols to make my own disk and > >just order their stock die cut items. > > > >Aaron Sargent > >The Linen Barn > >linen@xxxxxxxxxxx > >Medford, Oregon > > >