November 19th, 2010, 10:08 PM
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Re: Digitizing Software
I am not very familiar with Pulse. I have played with it at a few shows, and on my sales resp's laptop. I do belive that you are right, you don't need Maestro as you don't do chenille. I have heard that Illustrator is extreme is great.
My comfot zone is Wilcom, mainly cause its what I learned on, so I am partial to it. I started out with DecoStudio. Then upgraded quickly to Embroidery Studio 1, because of better trim controls, and some nifty shortcuts. As I got better I did end up upgrading again to level 2. Its got some pretty cooll fill patterns lots of fonts, and an awesome feature is the vector interchange feature. You can jump between embroidery and graphic a lot easier. You can also if you have only a stitch file, you can export that, and it will "backwards create" the vector file. I know it doesn't sound like much, but we use it every day, especially if you offer embroidery as well as screen printing.
I also have one copy of Level 3, and the only reason we have it, is because we do chenille, and we also have one machine that does sequins.
In agreement with Earl here, Level 1 should do you just fine. Level 2 does have some nifty features, but its probably not worth the extra money if you're not doing big elaborate pieces. Ad far as Level 3, people typically only buy level 3 for a very specific purpose like chenille or sequins. It also has a plug-in if you have a laser bridge for applique.
Hope that answers at least the Wilcom half of your question :-)
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