Computerized Embroidery

I want to swap my staff over to a more professional shirt with my personal logo embroidered upon them. The shirts I want my staff to wear are a fitted, rather expensive, button up shirt. My buddy runs his own bar and grill and is looking to the same thing, and kind of prompted me wanting to look into it.

We've explored just getting the shirts we want and carrying them to an embroidery shop, but its time intensive and each logo embroidered is going to run $15 at the cheapest we've found in our local area (for the sizes of the logo) and upwards of $25 to $30 on Jackets/Sweat Shirts with a bigger logo. (Talking 4" up to a 10" logo).

We also looked at companies that provide the shirts and embroider them there in batch. But to have any significant savings - we'd need to order somewhere in the magnitude of 250+ shirts. I only fucking WISH I had enough staff to wear 250 shirts.

So now we're considering just getting an Embroidery Machine. Way back in like 2006, there was this Hat place in the mall that I could take my own personal shirts (I worked at Toyota, and they needed to say Toyota) and he would embroider them for me there. Im looking for basically, that machine. I vaguely remember him taking an image file from a picture of the logo I needed, uploading it to his PC, cropping it, programming it (I dont really remember this part) - and within 5-10 minutes, we were slapping my first shirt in a frame and it was sewing the logo. We're looking for THAT functionality.

But at WORST, if all I can find is something that sews patches on - I found a place that will make our logo into a patch for only a few bucks and thats an option, too!

We're just not trying to spend 1000's of dollars on basically an experiment. Hell, Im not even sure we want to spend several hundred, and would probably consider a used machine (since what I want is basically something from 2006).

Burns said:

That guy probably had a decent amount of experience and/or it was a simple logo. As an alternative to learning the software yourself, I had a somewhat complicated 4 color 6in x 4in logo converted a while back by a company online. I don't remember the name of the place but it was pretty cheap and they offered a few free corrections. You test "print" (sew) what they give you, then tell them if any threads are out of place. They send it back for another test print and so on.

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It was Hat World or "Lids" or something like that. The guy did hats all the time, so Im sure it was a cake walk for him to program and do all of that shit. But "Such n' Such Toyota" probably wasnt all that hard. One Color, cursive writing. I honestly would be ok with something like that.

The 6 needle options arent near as cheap as what Edaw's Chat GPT response says. But the single needle options are 300-700, but then Im wondering... what the fuck is the difference between buying one of those used at that price, versus one thats brand new in the same price range? I guess thats what Im alluding to with this thread. Outside of stabilization paper? Or the amount of needles? Or even speed (which is much less of a concern in my mind) - but I dont know what Im looking for. If I found a steal of a deal at 200 bucks, I wouldnt know it was a steal of a deal, in other words.