EMBROIDERY DIGITIZING & VECTOR ART
Professional embroidery digitizing and vector art services for apparel brands, embroidery shops, promotional businesses, and custom apparel professionals. Get production-ready artwork with clean details, accurate stitching, and fast turnaround.
Eagle Embroidery DesignStitches 22,135Colours 6Polo / Cotton
Why it matters
Clean, accurate digitizing built for reliable embroidery results.
Clean, sharp stitching with zero distortion.
Runs smoothly with fewer thread breaks.
Rich, detailed and professional look.
Optimised stitch paths help reduce overall production time.
Prevents puckering and ensures smooth results on all fabrics.
Maintains high quality across different sizes and products.
Before and after
On the left is the file a client sent us. On the right is the same design rebuilt as stitches, with density, underlay and pull compensation set for the fabric named underneath. They take turns — step through them, or let them run.
Design
ResultStep through with the arrows or the dots, or focus the panel and use the arrow keys. These are our own files — we never publish a client mark without asking, and never anyone else's work.
What we punch
A cap is not a left chest with different dimensions, and a towel is not a polo. Each page says what actually changes in the file — worth two minutes if you are about to brief a digitizer.
Why ZB Punch
Not "quality service". The actual things that decide whether a file costs you time on the floor.
No one-click conversion, no batch processing, no offshore relay where nobody can answer a question about their own file. Ask why a column is set the way it is and you get a real answer.
A pique polo and a 300gsm fleece are two different jobs. Underlay, density and compensation are set for what you are actually running — tell us the garment and the file changes.
Trims tidied, jumps clipped, colour stops labelled in plain language, and a printable worksheet with the sequence and stitch count. Your operator should not have to reverse-engineer anything.
Send a photo of the sew-out and we fix it. No revision limit, no charge, no argument about whose fault it was. A design is finished when it runs clean on your machine.
All 12 stitch formats and 5 vector formats go out together. Saving the same design out again is not a service worth billing for.
You paid for the file, so it is yours — including the editable source. We do not resell client logos, add them to a stock library, or publish them without asking first.
The craft
None of these are settings you can leave on default. This is what an experienced digitizer is actually being paid to judge — and what a one-click auto-digitizer guesses at.
The stitches nobody sees
They anchor the fabric, stop the top layer sinking into a knit, and stabilise the shape before the fill goes on. Wrong underlay is why a design looks fine on a woven and terrible on fleece.
How tightly the thread packs
Too loose and the garment shows through; too tight and you get a stiff plate that puckers and breaks needles. It changes with fabric, with element size, and with thread weight.
Cancelling the distortion before it happens
Thread pulls fabric inward as it sews, so shapes come out narrower than drawn. We widen elements per direction to cancel it. Skip this and your outlines end up sitting inside your fills.
Columns, lettering and borders
A satin column carries the sheen that makes embroidery read as embroidery. Width, angle and stitch length all shift with the element — a 2mm letter stroke and a 6mm border are not the same problem.
Large areas without a flat sheet look
Deliberate angle changes and staggered penetration points stop a big fill reading like plastic. On an eleven-inch back we break fills into sections rather than running one continuous pass.
What sews first, and why
Good sequencing anchors the fabric progressively, keeps registration tight, and cuts thread changes down so your operator is not stopping every ninety seconds.
Legible at 4mm cap height
At 4mm a satin column is under a millimetre wide. Letters under 5mm get a run stitch or a narrow satin with a single centre-run underlay, and the counters get widened by hand so the holes survive pull-in.
Bottom-up, centre-out, seam avoided
On a cap driver the fabric is under tension and moves cleanly in one direction. Load a flat left-chest file on a cap frame and the top of the design walks sideways down the panel.
Cutting foam cleanly, sealing every end
The satin has to be dense enough to perforate 2mm or 3mm foam so the excess tears away, with the angle crossing the boundary rather than following it. Every open end gets a cap or the foam shows.
Four operations in one file
Placement run, tack-down, machine stop for trimming, then the cover stitch. All four with the stops in the right places and the colour blocks labelled in plain language.
ZB Punch patches straight off the machine — crisp lettering and clean edges, ready to cut.
How an order runs
No portal to log into and no ticket number to quote. Most of our regular clients just reply to the same email thread or the same WhatsApp chat, week after week.
Any format, any quality. Tell us the finished width, the garment and the file type your machine reads. A phone photo of a business card is a normal starting point.
A price and a delivery time in writing, usually inside twenty minutes during working hours. If the logo has a problem that will show in thread, you hear it now.
One digitizer owns the file start to finish. Underlay, density and compensation set for your fabric, sequence planned to cut trims, and a virtual sew-out check before it leaves.
Stitch files, worksheet and preview land in your inbox. Run it — and if it fights you, send a photo and we adjust and resend at no charge.
Who we work with
A good part of the work is white-label: your client never sees our name, and we never post a logo without asking. We do not run production embroidery, so we are not competing with the people who send us work.
Overflow and awkward jobs
Volume work, standing briefs
Multi-position uniform sets
Schools, healthcare, hospitality
When a client asks for embroidery
Caps, bags, fleece
Teamwear, numbers, crests
Badges and blazer crests
Towels, robes, terry
Small-run branded pieces
Turning brand marks into thread
Merrow, laser and hot-cut edges
Recent work
Every job lists what it actually came out at. A left chest between four and seven thousand stitches is a properly built file; anything claiming two thousand has dropped detail.
Pricing
Charging by stitch count rewards a digitizer for padding the file, which is the last thing you want. A left chest costs the same whether it lands at 4,000 stitches or 7,000 — and we will always aim for the lower number.
Polos, shirts, fleece, softshells. Up to about 3.5 x 2 inches.
Digitized for a cap driver: bottom-up, centre-out, seam avoided.
Nine to twelve inches. Price depends on colours and detail, quoted before we start.
Sequence logos start at $10 for two colours and $15 for four. Complex designs get a written custom quote before any work starts. Full price list
All prices are listed in US dollars.
Delivery
Some digitizers hand over one DST and charge again when you ask for PES next month. We send the set. Tell us the machine and we will pick the right one for you.
Stitch formats
Vector formats
Questions
There are more on the FAQ page. If yours is not there, ask — we answer questions about the craft even when they do not turn into an order.
A left chest or a cap logo is normally back in four to eight hours. Jacket backs, appliqué and patch work take twelve to twenty-four. If you send something at 2am our time it will be waiting when you start work.
If you genuinely need it inside two hours, say so in the message. We will tell you straight away whether we can do it rather than accept it and go quiet.
The artwork in whatever form you have it, the finished width in inches or millimetres, the garment or fabric, and the file format your machine reads. That is enough for most jobs.
If you only have a phone photo of a business card, send that. Rebuilding rough source material is a normal part of the work, not an obstacle.
Per design. A left chest is a left chest whether it comes out at 4,000 stitches or 7,000. Stitch-count pricing pushes a digitizer to inflate the file, which is the opposite of what you want.
The only thing that moves the price is the size and complexity of the design, and you get that number in writing before we start.
Send us the sew-out photo and we fix it. No revision limit, no charge, no argument about whose fault it was. A design is finished when it runs clean on your machine, not when we email it.
A photo of the actual sew-out is worth ten messages of description. Even a slightly blurry one taken on the machine tells us whether it is density, pull compensation or hooping.
You do. You paid for it, it is yours, including the editable source if you want it. We do not resell client logos, we do not add them to a stock library, and we do not put them in a public portfolio without asking first.
Usually yes. Send the old stitch file and the sew-out and we can either repair it or rebuild it to match, whichever costs you less. Repairing someone else is honest work and there is no shame in it.
Next step
Send your artwork, tell us the finished size, the fabric and the format your machine reads. You will get a price and a delivery time back — usually inside twenty minutes during working hours.
Or email info@zbpunch.com
Hi! How can I help you?
Send the artwork and you will get a real answer back.
