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ive bought an eight head embroidery machine and need some where to get logos digitsed?

Im looking for somewhere to get my pics/logos/designs digitised can anyone recommend any where? we will be embroidering company logos and designs and therefore we will require someone else to digitise these for us as this will be too time consuming for us.

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1. When I looked at these things at a sales place/booth/whatever and asked a bunch of questions, I got the impression it worked straight off of images. If you just need digitized color logo images, you can buy scanners for well under $100 (like $69) that come with software for running the scanner in various modes. My wife got a Canon All-in-One type that does printing, scanning, and copying and it came with good OCR, control and image management software, but we needed it to work with other special stuff and it worked fine. The labeled price at Frys was $70 with, at the time mail in rebates of $20 just for buying and $50 for buying with a computer, so we got it for free.
2. There are places on the Internet that do this. A local embroidery company may have someone on staff that does this, but they probably don't want to share. To do this yourself canl take time and money. Professional digitizers will not digitize a licensed logo. You have to show ownership of what you want digitized. Ann The Gran (there are links at this site for other embroidery related items and services), Embroidery Library and other companies like these two, that sell designs, now do digitizing. I digitize with my laptop, printer/scanner/copier and Designer's Gallery MasterWorks Lite. There is a trial available at Babylock. However, the product has to be purchased from a Babylock dealer. If you order the trial, be sure you have pently of time to work with it, it is limited to 30 days from the day you download.
3. I use Swerve Media Solutions for the embroidery I do on my baby onesies. Depending on the formatting you need it shouldn't be a problem for them. I send them my images as high res .jpgs or .bmps from scans or drawings and they convert them to .sew formats for my embroidery machine. They had a bunch of other format options too, but you'd have to contact them for details. They're a full design firm so they'll probably be able to get you whatever you need, but you'd have to find out from them for sure. I've been happy with them so far. I heard of them through a friend that makes kids finger puppets and she didn't seem to have any trouble with the either. They might be worth checking out, just to get pricing if anything. Hope that helps...