[amayausers.com] Re: digitizing trims
- From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:06:29 -0500
I'll throw my 2¢ in...on a couple items
1) test sewout, always...even for 1 item. Avoids ruining something!
2) customer supplied goods...well, I try to avoid it as much as
possible...
but for screenprinting I always tell them to bring me 10% extra
goods, at least
1 of each size extra in case of screwups. For embroidery...we tell
them if they don't
bring extra goods then we can't be expected to do each one perfect
and also charge
a 'hooping fee' or include the embroidery for a minimum of $10 per
item to cover the
profit we aren't making on the crap they brought in
(usually they went to a discount rack store and bought crap cheap)
3) low pricing...never let someone ELSE dictate your prices...because
it might have
been the low pricing that put the last guy out of business! And you
cannot compete with
the pro shops-the guys with 10, 15, or 50 heads or more-you lose
money trying to do that.
Good luck!
Roland
On Dec 21, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Carol Brussel wrote:
Thanks Rod for explaining about the mechanical aspects of the
machines, I always like to understand the "how and why" because I
think then I can come to understand problems better.
Now for a big question that is probably two questions. I recently
got a call from a screen printer whose former embroidery person
moved away. He brought over some caps which I struggled with quite
a bit (only did one cap in training and that was long ago and far
away, it seems). Whoever posted the video about hooping caps really
saved my butt on that one! The design was digitized for this guy's
logo by the former embroidery person, who kindly sent it to him, as
well as the other design I sewed. This guy's logo has unusual
lettering which sewed out okay but had big jump stitches from just
about everywhere, it seemed. I didn't trim them because he offered
me a pretty low price to do this stuff and I forgot to ask him
about it. he said his previous person always trimmed them.
I hate to sit around trimming threads if I can get out of it.
However, one time before when I posted that I had digitized some
lettering to eliminate the tiny jump threads (remember these are
HUGE) someone advised me not to do that, becuase of the time it
takes to stop and trim and the possibility of threads pulling out.
So now I am wondering, should I digitize out these threads by
inserting trims? how best to do it so they don't pull out?
Also when he picked them up he looked at them and asked if I could
make the letters "bigger" (meaning bolder) next time, it turns out
he had never had it sewn out before! EEK - I told him he should
have told me that so I could have sewn out a sample for him. He's a
very nice guy and may be on to a big contract with a school
district so I certainly want to maintain a good relationship with
him, so if I just have to cut those threads, I will, but I figured
someone would know better than me.
Caps are awful, those metal hoop devices are very hard on the hands.
Also, could others share with me their policies on doing embroidery
on items other people supply? He had bought the caps and my machine
(operator error, surely, although I couldn't figure out what)
ruined three of them (out of about 35). He said his previous person
bought all the caps so she must have absorbed the defective ones
herself. I myself do not have a basement full of supplies, so I
really need to come up with a clear policy on this.
Carol Brussel
Brussel Embroidery
Denver
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