Embroidery Machines?

[Darren Mooney]

If I had the knowlege I do now when I started I’d have bought a barudan machine… very nice embroidery, fairly reliable regarding thread breaks, so only question for me would be how many heads do you want.. what can you afford…Have another inbro machine, wouldn’t reccomend after using the barudan anyway… service was good but machine just doesn’t give the same results.

http://www.barudan.co.uk/

[Nigel Hindley]

Hi,

Thanks for that, I have looked at this company and their machines do look good – trouble is I dont really know what to look for.

We have a subcontractor that does all our embroidery work – and it is of fair quality. We mainly supply our customers with t-shirts polo shirts and a few other things.

This side of our business is increasing so want to see if it is viable for us to get a machine for ourselves then we can push it even further.

I take it with each head you can just embroider a garment per head?

[Nigel Hindley]

Hi,

Thanks for that, I have looked at this company and their machines do look good – trouble is I dont really know what to look for.

We have a subcontractor that does all our embroidery work – and it is of fair quality. We mainly supply our customers with t-shirts polo shirts and a few other things.

This side of our business is increasing so want to see if it is viable for us to get a machine for ourselves then we can push it even further.

I take it with each head you can just embroider a garment per head?

[Phil Price]

Hi Mordax,

We have a brother PR600 machine (single head, 6 threads) which is a really good ‘entry’ machine.

Assuming that the digitising is of a high standard (we sub ours out to specialist company) you will get extremely good results on a machine costing around 6K.

Mind you, a single head machine is only going to be good for small embroidery runs…..we still sub contract our larger orders out to a company with a multi head machine.

Regards,

Phil

[Nigel Hindley]

Very Helpful Phil – Thanks

[George Zerbino]

Phil,

Have a look at http://www.drawstitch.com, I use this with my PR600 so all my artwork is done in-house, with very good results.

GeoZ

[Darren Mooney]

Quality is of importance to me…. I had the inbro machine and it was annoying to see other embroidery looking so well and not knowing what I was doing wrong! go for the barudan, not sure what the prices are at mo, but given the choice I would have paid the extra few quid a week had I had known that all machines weren’t the same!! I now put out work I’m really delighted with, knowing that you won’t get better!
It also depends on what sort of quantities you’re doing..what would you shift per week? Do you want to do caps as well? caps are a pain to be honest, I really try to stay away from them, have had a few bad experiences, spoiling as many as I had turn out well! prob just my own machine system! If you’re doing a few hundred items a week I’d prob go for a 4 head or 6 head machine, yep, a garment per head, but the downside is if you only want to do a single item, or a sample maybe, you can’t use the other 5 heads, so you’re tying up machine time. I couldn’t say look out for something because they’re all pretty similar function wise, you might get the colour display rather than the monochrome display starting out as it looks easier interface, and can use compact flash memory rather than just a floppy disc…any other questions fire away…

[Sarandaz]

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