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Embroidery machines?
A friend of mine who is an artist currently gives photo's to someone and they
scan it in and machine embroider the image onto fabric. He is paying 75 dollars per image. Does this sound like a decent price? If not, what sort of machine does this type of embroidery and how much does the machine cost? I was thinking it was approximately $1,500. Does anyone know a brand name machine which does this? Thanks, Victoria Need a good, cheap, knowledge expanding present for yourself or a friend? http://www.animaux.net/stern/present.html |
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escapee wrote:
A friend of mine who is an artist currently gives photo's to someone and they scan it in and machine embroider the image onto fabric. He is paying 75 dollars per image. Does this sound like a decent price? If not, what sort of machine does this type of embroidery and how much does the machine cost? I was thinking it was approximately $1,500. Does anyone know a brand name machine which does this? Thanks, Victoria If you just want an embroidery machine - that might do it. My aunt has a Bernina 200E - very sweet - does everything - and costs more like $ 4.500, maybe more. I think that a sewing/embroidery machine would run anywhere from $1500 - $ 5000. The software might cost a few hundred - depending on what you want to do and what came with the machine. Industrial machines cost more, but they're a lot faster. The less expensive machines may take longer, have less features. I know on the Bernina it automatically is programmed for all the tons of color changes - some of her pieces are amazing. Just check out the back of some sewing or quilting mags for ads from people who will embroider custom stuff. Or hit a LQS - the new machines are amazing . I think TIa Mary has a Janome, IIRC ? Viking has them, so does Baby Loc, and there is a new Singer - though I don't think that is in the same class as the others. Ellice |
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escapee wrote:
A friend of mine who is an artist currently gives photos to someone and they scan it in and machine embroider the image onto fabric. He is paying 75 dollars per image. Does this sound like a decent price? In general, yes. A lot will depend on how large and/or complex the original image is, but I'd say that $75/image is a pretty good price. I am assuming that the $75 is for the digitising and the first embroidery, and then the digitised file is stored somewhere. Subsequent embroideries from the same file should be less expensive, as the hard work is done. jen -- Jenn Ridley : WIP: Art Stitch Rose Trio, Emperor's Coat, Carousel, Halloween Circle Most recently Finished: FrankenFlora, Romance, Santa Xmas Stocking |
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On 23 Sep 2004 17:50:17 GMT, ekoluvr (Tia Mary-remove
nekoluvr to reply ) opined: From: Ellice ... I think TIa Mary has a Janome, IIRC ? ..... Yep -- a 9000. Just about any non-commercial embroidery machine that uses embroidery cards will do this type of work. What is involved is either using a dedicated machine scanner to scan the photo OR having one of the car reader/writer machines (the Magic Box is the first to come to mind). The scanner for my machine runs close to a grand I think. The reader/writers run about $200 on e-Bay. And don't forget that there are a LOT of different embroidery machine languages!! Either way, you take the photo and have to turn it into something that can be saved onto one of your machine's embroidery cards. Once that is done, you just put the card into your machine and the machine does most of the work for you. I would have to say that the price of $75 for somehow digitizing a photo and saving it to whichever medium is requested is a competitive price. CiaoMeow ^;;^ Thanks. I will tell him that. Unfortunately, he's an artist and he only uses one image of the produced piece. He's been getting more into fiber art, lately. I thought if this was something he was going to stick with for a while, it would be good for him to buy the equipment. He can always sell it when he stops using the medium. Thanks for all your responses. Victoria Need a good, cheap, knowledge expanding present for yourself or a friend? http://www.animaux.net/stern/present.html |
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