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Originally Posted by OhSewFun
Brand new to this forum and have already gained a wealth of information from you guys. It's great you can take time to help us "newbies". I am looking at Melco, Baby Lock and Brother. All are offering great incentives right now. I don't see that anyone has mentioned the Melco. Is this not a good brand to buy!? BTW, I'll be working out of my home. I've been embroidering on a small home machine for about ten years and I'm tired of the restrictions it puts on me. Thanks for your input!
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Industry Rule-of-Thumb for Survial: You need 24 piece orders or larger DAILY to justify cost of machine.
Know, Commercial Embroidery Machines REQUIRE a full-time operator just as a Home Embroidery Machine does, just the Tasks are slightly different, but the time required is the same, full-time baby-sitting.
Been there, done that, started out first 6 years using five home machines, then went commercial, first Single Head that was a JOKE, then to Multi-Head.
If you don't have Volume Orders (24 pieces or greater per order) and at least a Four Head, you're wasting your Money and Time.
Sending the digitizing out is a JOKE as well, market is flooded with dirt-cheap digitizers......they do not do a embroidery machine test sew out-just on line sew out. So you end up working for the digitizer, you test sew the design, have to keep going back and forth request Edits to get a correct Production Ready Sew Out. You'll get garbage, excessive Stops, Trims, Color Changes, poor design Flow, not Center Out, Poor Registration, etc. etc. etc., you waste your time over and over dealing with bulk of the digitizers. Or, if you're clueless, will sew out what they send and ship it, you'll soon find out you won't get repeat business or customer may refuse to pay or ask for refunds.
I highly recommend you keep Farming Out Orders unless you have daily orders to full-fill of 24 pieces or greater, especially since you send out digitizing, DO NOT invest unless money is not a concern, it's a hobby.
If insistent on getting into it deep, I do suggest you or your Wife learn to Digitize FIRST. Ultimately, if orders increase, you can then farm out the digitizing and embroidery or at very least, if you do buy machine(s) multi-heads Farm Out Digitizing once you find a decent digitizer you don't have to work for doing edits and the test sew outs, then maybe it will work for you.
I highly recommend you and your wife seek employment at an embroidery house, offer to work for free for a week or so if you need to, so you can see that even commercial embroidery comes with on-going unexpected issues that require time and lots of money.
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