I talked with my friend Sunday and he said that he can make the polos for $15-$20 with $20 being for the better polo shirts. He can take an image from us (he prefers jpeg), and convert it to his needs. The images used by the embroidery machines break the image into threads and stitches, obviously.
His price is all-inclusive.
--- Jeremy Turner [email protected] wrote:
I have a friend who runs a computerized embroidery operation from his house. He's done Polo shirts, jackets, and hats for me. He does very good work. ...
My grandparents run a embroidery/garmet embellishment business out in California. They have a special application that when you open an image file, you can draw/trace stitch patterns on top of it. He called the process "digitizing." I created my own /. polo that way. ;) I'm guessing the file format is proprietary to the embroidery machine and it's associated computer application, but probably just contains the coordinates for each stitch, changing to a different color thread, etc.