Technology has been in overdrive over the past decade and Pulse Microsystems Stitchport is no exception.  Stitchport Toolkit is a powerful embroidery platform for integrating embroidery functionality into your business systems.  The Stitchport Toolkit is an application programming interface (API) that allows companies of all sizes to add embroidery functionality into web or desktop or server applications that they create. For those companies that do not have internal programmers or do not have the time to tackle such a project, the development team at Pulse is able to provide a turnkey solution.

For a better understanding of how Stitchport works, imagine the following scenarios.

 #1 Total Personalization Automation

A customer visits your website and chooses a product and then chooses to add personalization.  The customer selects a font, a thread color and enters the desired text.  From this point, the Stitchport engine takes over and creates a production ready file of the text, in the correct font and applies settings such as underlay, density and pull compensation based on the product that is being embroidered and then applies the proper letter sizing based on the number of characters and also the product being decorated.  At production, the operator can scan a barcode which pulls up the file and then sets the colors on the embroidery machine automatically for Tajima M-Series and NEO Machines.  Other brands and models of machines can also connect in an intelligent manner.  The best part of this scenario is that whether 1 name or 1 million names were processed, there was not a single point of labor cost to setup, define and create the personalization.  The same process can be applied to taking existing designs and adding name drops to them.  Eliminating the human touch and applying specific settings eliminates potential spelling errors, provides total design continuity and significantly reduces labor costs.

#2 Visual Rendering

A customer visits your website and wishes to see how a logo will look on a particular garment.  With the Stitchport engine, you can generate an actual 3d simulated image of an existing embroidery file and then place it on the garment as desired.   If you want your customer to start with their own artwork instead of an embroidered file, the Embroidery Simulator will turn a piece of artwork into simulated embroidery.  Additionally, it will auto-digitize the design in the background to provide a stitch count estimate of the logo.

Stitchport technology is available for Embroidery, Laser and Digital Printing applications.

For more information, contact Ed Levy.

Hirsch has released information on a new and improved oversize oval screen printing press called the Digotex iDrive series. It allows screen printers to incorporate oversize and allover printing as well as standard size prints without purchasing a press that will become obsolete if oversize printing slows in popularity. This new textile printer is available in a wide range of print sizes. Three standard print sizes are 20" x 28", 28" x 40" and 31.5" x 43" with special larger sizes available on request. Extra wide images can be printed by utilizing the double index feature.

Because the iDrive Oval is modular with each station independently driven, a printer can start small and increase the capacity of the press as requirements change. There is no heavy chain or gear motor to drive all the tables. There are nearly unlimited configurations so the press can be designed with any combination of printing and empty stations and loading and unloading stations. 

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For more information, contact Gavin Kidd.