January 24th, 2012, 11:38 PM
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Re: small lettering question
No, no real minimum char. per inch because there are too many variables. I go by height. I can get clean small lettering at .15-.16mm. The trick with tiny lettering is to try and use a font with equal width columns, no serifs, and hand digitize that font. Most stock fonts that u can set up in ur digitizing software aren't really good when reduced to very small. The only exception would be Wilcoms "Micro Block". It's sews really nice small letters when set up correctly. I typically use a density of .38-.40 with a .25mm pull comp. and depending on the material, I'll either use no underlay, or a straight stitch with a short stitch length of about .8. The style of font has everything to do with clean small letters. The trick is to know just by looking at if whether or not it will see clean. But ur choices go up considerably if u can set up clean vector text and digitize it yourself. Small lettering is one of the biggest challenges to digitizing. Once you've mastered it, you can do just about anything else thrown ur way. Take the time and sew out lettering as much as u can. And also watch the machine very closely. Watch how the letters are created and understand how they sew. Most of my talent as a digitizer was learned watching and running a machine. I firmly believe to be a good digitizer you have to spend a ton of time watching and studying a machine moving and forming stitches. When I digitize I am watching the design sew in my head as I'm creating the design.
I've seen great graphic artist take digitizing classes to learn the software inside and out, only to fail miserably as digitizers because they have no clue how machines actually run. And on the other hand, I've seen lowly machine operators become excellent digitizers without one ounce of artistic talent.
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