A cheap digitising file looks like a saving. It almost never is. The real cost appears on the production floor.
The most obvious cost of a bad file is a failed production run. Thread breaks, puckering fabric, registration drift — these are the visible symptoms of a digitising file not correctly planned for the fabric.
Each failed garment is a lost garment. At £15 to £40 per garment, one rejected run can cost more than a month of professional digitising files.
Beyond visible failures, bad files cost operator time. Poor stitch sequencing requires more thread changes. No underlay requires manual garment adjustment. Inconsistent results require more re-hooping.
For a production shop running 50 garments per day, these costs accumulate quickly.
An embroidery supplier who delivers inconsistent results loses clients. A promotional product distributor whose garments fail in production loses accounts. The root cause, in many cases, is a digitising file not correctly planned.
Professional manual digitising costs from £10 per design. The cost of a single failed production run is almost always higher. PlixaLabs files are production-ready from the first hoop — every time.
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