Information about EMBROIDERY MACHINE Equipment for Professional Embroidery Business and Computerized Embroidery

Professional Embroidery Machine Equipment Embroidery Machine Equipment can empower your home embroidery business or a large commercial embroidery business. If you're considering starting an embroidery business here's some useful information and answers to frequently asked questions that you should know about.

What is the market for computerized embroidery?

Everyone loves unique embroidery identification or fashion on garments. You see fancy embroidery and embroided logos everywhere, on practically every work uniform, almost all club and team wear. People collect baseball style caps with embroidered designs, and it has become the standard for corporate wear as corporations become less formal in their offices. Demand is high for bowling alleys, local retail store employees, golf & country club and yacht club members. School teams and local military units always need more. You're likely to have several embroidered items in your closet!

How can I find potential customers?

The people you know are your best source for the leads that become sales. Virtually every adult works somewhere and their company needs logos on corporate wear and special event items, such as prizes and awards for top-producing employees. The Yellow Pages of your phone directory always works. Embroidery is so popular that customers will seek you out! Contacts you make through social events can lead to very profitable orders.

There is no replacement for working hard and working smart when it comes to building any business. Aggressive canvassing of businesses, schools and organizations in your area produce great results. One entrepreneurial Melo customer brought embroidered samples to a business opportunity show. He conducted a drawing that offered a free digitized logo to the winner. People entered by dropping their business cards into a fish bowl on his table. Guess what? Everybody won! He custom digitized the corporate or occupational logo for free then charged for stitching it on a garment that he also sold to his new customer! He built a repeat customer list sooner than he would have thought possible and invested in additional MELCO machines to handle his growing embroidery business.

What garments can you stitch with the embroidery machine?

Generally, any soft fabric that will fit under the needle of the machine. Shirts, hats and jackets are easy. Horse blankets, travel bags and mattress covers sometimes require special accessories in order to be embroidered. You can stitch any name, logo or ornate fashion embellishment on any suitable garment. The design size can be anywhere from less than a quarter of an inch to eleven by seventeen inches and larger.

Where do I buy wholesale items that are suitable for embroidery?

Melo customers are provided with our Customer Success Kit. In it you will find companies supplying a wide variety of items wholesale. You can find golf shirts, hats, jackets, work uniforms, aprons, table linens, team wear, neck ties and many other items at special dealer prices. National brands like Fruit of the Loom, Outer Banks, Hanes, Lee and many more. The manufacturers of these items are anxious to do business with you; most do not require a minimum order and will ship UPS right to your door. They will supply you with color catalogs and confidential dealer price lists. You can show items to your customers, add embroidery, handling charges and charge the retail price you set! It isn't necessary to tie up your money with lots of inventory, just a few samples!

How Profitable Is Embroidery?

It is customary to mark up any garment you sell; often 50 to 100% or more of its cost. Embroidering that garment is usually priced per thousand stitches. $1.00 per thousand stitches or higher is not uncommon. A single MELCO machine can embroider a number of garments in a short period of time. Designs vary in size but a typical shirt logo averages about 5000 stitches. Our MELCO machines are capable of running at speeds of up to 1200 stitches per minute and are normally operated at 900 to 1000 s.p.m.

This information presents a general picture on profitability. Embroiderers know that factors like quantity, garment material, the size and quality of the design, thread type and more will affect the time it takes to do a "job" and they adjust prices accordingly. Our Customer Success Kit includes articles with more specific information on pricing and a wealth of other industry tips to help you become very profitable in your new career in the embroidery business.

How big is the machine that does the embroidery?

MELCO embroidery equipment is built to fit through a standard door, even The Triple Header, our high production three head system! A single head unit is less than thirty inches wide and weighs about 180 pounds. It is considered "portable" by commercial-grade machine standards. These compact features are important for transporting it to events like shows, fairs, and rodeos or when space is limited in a home or small business. The MELCO operates so quietly that you can carry on a normal conversation while standing near it during operation. It should not disturb a neighbor, even in an apartment building. The personal computer that connects to the MELCO is typical of those being sold everywhere today. It's the perfect piece of equipment for starting a home embroidery business . (See Melo' machine brochure for specific weights and dimensions.)

What does the computer do in the embroidery process?

The computer processes the artwork from your customer in a manner that the machine can understand. The computer allows you to do lettering with a design, such as adding the date to an event such as a golf tournament. The process works like this:

Your computer chooses a design from the selection that you have stored on disk or your customer asks you to prepare his artwork for embroidery using the process known as "digitizing."

The computer program allows you to "input" the artwork so it can be seen on the color monitor.

Add lettering or dates, re-size the design to fit right on the garment or even edit the design for changes.

Once you save the design, it can be directly transferred to the MELCO machine for stitching.

The computer has made intricate and complex embroidery available to the public on a scale never thought possible!

a world leader in commercial embroidery machines, embroidery equipment and embroidery supplies. Melco provides embroidery machines and embroidery machine software for commercial embroidery. Melco manufactures the world’s leading modular embroidery machines and embroidery design digitizing software.

With the Amaya XT modular multi-head commercial embroidery machine a commercial production shop can delivery 1500 Stitches per minute - the fastest speed of any commercial embroidery machine. Melco offers a wide range of embroidery products and supplies for the embroidery industry with innovative embroidery equipment and supplies, embroidery accessories, embroidery software, and a full range of embroidery solutions.

Embroidery Equipment, Events and related Products:

New AMAYA XT Embroidery Machine Features

- Smallest cylindrical arm with new cap frame and cap driver allowing for the largest cap sewing field in the industry 3.2 x 14.
- Narrow Tubular Driver allows for sewing small areas such as pockets, children’s garments, and golf club covers.
- New color change system - Higher reliability color change system
- Sequin Attachment - Up to 1300 sequins per minute sequin placement system, 3, 5, 7mm sequins
- Small, medium, and large table top attachments
- New look silver and gray

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