Hi All
I started a small business embroidering towels about a year ago with a Brother Innovis 750e - single needle, 650stm, and PE-Design Next. I've probably done about 1000 towels on this machine and the quality is cracking even if it's very slow! I've even done quite a few complex designs for people and never really had a problem.
Fast forward to about 5 weeks ago. I decided to up the ante a bit and leased an XTS.
The speed is incredible but that's about the only advantage I'm seeing. The quality is pretty poor; to the point where I'm not 100% happy sending out the items that I'm embroidering.
The stitches just seem to be very slack and gappy. I'd use a fill stitch on a towel on the old machine with some water soluble stabiliser and it would be about as perfect as you can get on something like a towel with a deep pile.
On the XTS, it just looks all scrappy, like the stitches aren't close enough together and they're not being pulled tight enough.
On the Brother, I would set the stitch density to about 5.5 or 6 and the pull comp to about 3 or 6.
I thought I understood this but I'm feeling completely lost with the XTS.
Is there a '101' guide to at least setting everything to some good averages? I don't understand the acti-feed settings, for example, and leave it set to auto.
Any pointers would be really appreciated as I'm at the point where I'd like to push the thing in front of a train and go back to me faithful old Brother.
Best regards
Andy
I started a small business embroidering towels about a year ago with a Brother Innovis 750e - single needle, 650stm, and PE-Design Next. I've probably done about 1000 towels on this machine and the quality is cracking even if it's very slow! I've even done quite a few complex designs for people and never really had a problem.
Fast forward to about 5 weeks ago. I decided to up the ante a bit and leased an XTS.
The speed is incredible but that's about the only advantage I'm seeing. The quality is pretty poor; to the point where I'm not 100% happy sending out the items that I'm embroidering.
The stitches just seem to be very slack and gappy. I'd use a fill stitch on a towel on the old machine with some water soluble stabiliser and it would be about as perfect as you can get on something like a towel with a deep pile.
On the XTS, it just looks all scrappy, like the stitches aren't close enough together and they're not being pulled tight enough.
On the Brother, I would set the stitch density to about 5.5 or 6 and the pull comp to about 3 or 6.
I thought I understood this but I'm feeling completely lost with the XTS.
Is there a '101' guide to at least setting everything to some good averages? I don't understand the acti-feed settings, for example, and leave it set to auto.
Any pointers would be really appreciated as I'm at the point where I'd like to push the thing in front of a train and go back to me faithful old Brother.
Best regards
Andy
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