September 25th, 2009, 10:14 AM
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Re: Which machine to purchase for home based business
We did something very similar, started a home based company. If you are only going to run strictly one color or rarely 2 color designs, you can get away with one of the small sewing/embroidery machines depending on the sewing field size you want.
If you are going to be doing multi-color designs (which we are), the PR600 series are great machines... we have 2 of them, they are complete work horses. Don't forget to include the cost of software when you are pricing things, the software isn't cheap!
Another thing to check... if you have a local dealer, see if they have a trade-in program. The shop we bought ours from has a program where if you upgrade within a year, they will credit the entire purchase price towards the new machine. We bought a small Babylock sewing/embroidery machine as a second machine, then traded it in about 9 months later towards a second PR600. Since we were planning on buying the 2nd machine anyway, we essentially got a cheap/free loaner for 9 months that we used for running free standing lace designs.
Finally, if you really think you are going to need a larger machine down the road, look at one of the compact 12 or 15 needle machine from SWF, Barudan, etc. They generally have a much larger sewing field than the PR600 series and designs with a lot of colors aren't as frustrating... We opted to go much bigger as a 3rd machine and bouight an SWF-E/1501T 15 needle machine that has a 14x16 sewing area... great for doing jackets...
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