At Southside Sports we use Corel Draw exclusively. It is a Vector art based program that works best in the world of screen printing and embroidery. Its file name is cdr., we are currently using version 14. With Embroidery we use Tajima Pulse software its file name is pxf. We can also open dst. files. We prefer Vector art files that are not bitmap embedded images saved in a .cdr (CorelDraw), .eps or .pdf.
EMBROIDERY: When it comes to embroidery files we can open pxf. files and dst. files. One important note the dst file is a permanent file, it not meant to be changed or altered. Sometimes we can resize it but not much, and maybe get rid of a color but it is very rare to change a dst. File. If it needs changing it might need to be re-digitized. The pxf. file is workable file, we can make changes with little to no problem.
Digitization is the process of turning your art file into an embroidered stitch logo. The current cost is $6.50 per 1000 stitches.