[amayausers] Re: smallest font in program?
- From: "Jack Fuller" <Jack@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:38:55 -0600
Roland
Just remember that the 65/9 tend to bend much easier than the 75/11. I have
to slow down to 1000 spm or slower depending on the design and fabric. It is
well worth your time to call Madeira and get a mixed box of 10 each 1500
meter 60wt thread. I usually only get 30-50000 stitches from a 65/9 though.
When you start to break thread look at the needle.
Jack Fuller
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Subject: [amayausers] Re: smallest font in program?
Okay, here's what I know...
smaller needles-I find 75/11 and 65/9 balls, and 75/11 sharps.
As far as I know, Sue has not changed any needles to smaller ones yet-just
replacing dull or broken ones with the 75/11 as needed. We are running
needles 1-8 with sharps, and then usually the same colors 9-16 with balls.
Most of what we have been doing has been hats and shirts or jackets for same
clients-this way we don't have to change needles. Although I have run both
needles on hats with no problem....
didnt' even know I had smaller needles-Sue is trying to be the 'setup'
person and I do the digitizing-we just haven't got the experience yet to
know all this stuff. We just muddle through until a design works-then sew it
out and learn from that!
We have only the one weight thread-I bought the 288 spool 'kit' from Melco
and then replace small ones we use with large spools-figure that is the
easiest way to build up a bank of colors that we use a lot of.
On teeshirts and light polos it seems to work best if I use double layer of
1.8 oz tearaway (somewhere I'm going to find some heavier tearaway-I know
it's out there). solvy I use on pique knit and some fleece.
Density-everything seems to 'default' to 3.2 or 3.5, so I'm learning to
automatically 'bump it' up to 4 and higher-but don't get fine edges over
4.2. Tried a simple line on shirts for last weekend at 4.5 and it was jagged
edge-think I ended up at 4 to get it cleaner. Instead of a font I redrew it
as 'single line' and had a stitch width of 4.
Still alot of learning to do-too much other work (I do screen printing,
engraving, sign and banner making, vinyl cutting, etc.) so I can't stop for
a week and just 'play'- no time! So I end up 'playing' with each
order-making samples on other stuff to compare against.
Roland
> From: "Linen Barn" <linen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:45:50 -0700
> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [amayausers] Re: smallest font in program?
>
> Roland,
>
> Have you tried smaller needle (65/9) w/ 60 wt thread. I actually use the
> 65/9 needles fairly often with 40 wt thread and get a nice clean look on
> small text. I usually do this on my EMT which runs slower (650 spm) so
you
> may want to slow the machine down for that part of the design, especially
if
> you go small needle with 40 wt.
>
> Also, what density are you using for your design. I would use 4.5 and go
> from there. If you are sewing on knits make sure to hoop nice and snug
and
> use solvy on top.
>
> Aaron Sargent
> The Linen Barn
> linen@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Medford, OR
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> From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 7:43 AM
> Subject: [amayausers] Re: smallest font in program?
>
>
>> HI all...we've been pulling our hair out trying to figure out which font
>> will go the smallest without major thread breaks (some of those problems
>> we
>> are fixing-needle angle, MT, etc.)
>> have a client's shirt to duplicate (they got it somewhere else) and the
>> group name measures 3/16", .1875 high. So far we have been unable to sew
a
>> 'straight line' font even .2" and have it look decent. This is a
>> 'helvetica'
>> , 'arial', 'avantegarde' style font-probably 'microblock' but we are
>> unable
>> to get a decent sew out. Had other designs that needed small fonts-I
ended
>> up 'hand writing' the lettering with 'walk normal stitch' to simulate the
>> lettering-that was the best I could do for this small type. But the
design
>> I
>> have to do now-the lettering is on 2 lines with no design near it-so
'hand
>> lettering' would look terrible.
>> It is all capital letters, .1875 high, and I'd guess the column width is
>> about 2 stitches? But it looks so clean and sharp, very legible...
>> I know we must be doing something wrong with settings-so what should be
>> done
>> right?
>> Thanks
>> Roland
>>
>
>
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