How to Transfer Digitized Embroidery Design Into Embroidery Machine?

Embroiderers download the designs they need from internet to stitch out their desired design, they must now transfer the embroidery design into an embroidery machine.

Suppose, you have downloaded an embroidery design that you want to stitch out. Your embroidery design is ready to go. But suddenly, when you select the design on your embroidery machine, it is not showing up! And it is super frustrating when an embroidery design isn’t loaded on an embroidery machine.

In this blog, you will learn how to transfer a digitized embroidery design file to the embroidery machine, why your embroidery machine doesn’t recognize, see or read the digitized embroidery designs that you’ve been uploading onto it, offering possible solutions to various reasons of such difficulty.

There are a couple of ways you can transfer your digitized embroidery design file into your embroidery machine. Some programs allow you to import designs and then send them to the machine via a cable, but this method is a bit unmanageable because you must have your computer close to your embroidery machine and open the embroidery design in the specific software in order to make the transfer.

Generally, embroidery machine users transfer digitized embroidery design files to their machine via a USB stick. You only need to save the embroidery design on the flash drive and then plug the flash drive into the machine.

If you have no idea how to transfer the embroidery file to your embroidery machine, no worries!

Here, you can learn step-by-step tutorials for transferring embroidery files from your computer into your embroidery machine to complete your projects.

First of all, you have to download your desired digitized embroidery design on your computer.
To do so, go to shop.digitemb.com and explore 10,000+ machine embroidery designs.
After exploring the site, decide any of your favorite embroidery design.
Now, after selecting the design, simply add it to ‘My Cart’ and proceed to checkout. After completing checkout, you can instantly download your selected embroidery design.

Note: Make sure you select the correct file type for your embroidery machine. If you don’t know what type of file formats your machine takes, learn what are the Most Common Machine Embroidery File Format Types?

After the downloading is complete, the embroidery file will show up as a zip folder in your downloads.
You must unzip your embroidery design file to use the designs on your embroidery machine. To unzip a file, right-click on the zipped file and select Extract All.

After unzipping the digitized embroidery design file, you will need a USB drive.

Plugin your USB drive into your computer via the USB port and open it.

Next, select the embroidery design file from the Zip folder you downloaded. Simply select the design file and either copy and paste it onto the USB or drag and drop it.

Now that your digitized embroidery design is in your USB drive, you are ready to transfer it into the machine! Head over to your embroidery machine and turn it on. Now look for the USB logo in your machine and connect the USB to your embroidery machine.

Now for the final step, click the USB logo on the screen of your machine. You can now browse the files loaded on the USB drive. Select the design you put into the USB, and you’re ready to stitch out your embroidery design.

Even after a successful transfer of digitized embroidery design file to your machine, still, your machine is unable to read the design file. So, what’s going wrong, and how do you fix it?

Following are reasons why your embroidery machine isn’t reading the design file?

If you have uncompressed the files and loaded the designs on your USB drive, but your embroidery design still doesn’t load in the embroidery machine.

Are you sure you loaded the right embroidery file format onto the USB drive? Because for example, if you own a PE800, you must put the PES embroidery file on the flash drive because this is the file type your embroidery machine reads.

You must ensure you have unzipped the embroidery file and loaded those onto the USB drive instead of the zip file. Most embroidery design files are packaged up in a ZIP file.

A ZIP file is like a package that needs to be opened so that you can access all of the contents inside. Unfortunately, your embroidery machine will not understand the package. Therefore, you must open that package in the ZIP file.

If your embroidery machine is not reading a design then it’s possible that there’s something wrong with the machine itself. Generally, there’re three types of such problems: mechanical issues, old firmware, and slow processors.

An embroidery machine won’t read embroidery design if there’re too many of them on the storage device altogether if there’s something wrong with its connecting port. Sometimes all you’ll need to do is to clean it with a brush. If that won’t help, you must take the machine to a service center for a professional check-up.

Generally, greater capacity is a good thing, except when you are dealing with embroidery machines. Many embroidery machines can’t handle larger-capacity USB drives. You will notice that when you use larger USB drives with an embroidery machine, it can take a while to load in. But it still works. 2GB capacity flash drives and smaller generally work best with most embroidery machines.

You cannot stitch out a 5′′ × 7′′ pattern on an embroidery machine with a 4′′ by 4′′ hoop. You might come across a design that claims to fit in your 4 x 4, but doesn’t quite. This is because a 4” x 4” design won’t fit within a 4” x 4” hoop. The real maximum size is roughly 3.92′′ x 3.92′′. Since most professional embroidery digitizers are aware of this, designs marketed for 4” x 4,” hoops are typically somewhat smaller than 4” x 4”.

If nothing works, get a new USB flash drive, and this time, choose the storage device according to your embroidery machine because, as mentioned above, some machine requires a specific storage device, a USB flash drive, or a compact memory card. Thus if you use the wrong storage device, your embroidery machine will not be able to read the embroidery design file. It is necessary to follow the machine’s requirements.

May be you overfilled the space on your USB flash device with data, that’s why your machine is unable to read the design file. Although it is rare, but still this issue could arise, especially if you own a machine from an older generation. Try formatting the USB device before loading the designs.

For a successful transfer of your digitized embroidery design file to your embroidery machine, you will be required some tips, and here we have briefly mentioned some of those tips and tricks.

When you format the storage device in your embroidery machine, it creates a folder for saving embroidery designs. You must save your designs only in such folders. Otherwise, the embroidery machine won’t find them.

Reading the manual book of your embroidery machine is necessary because the manual also includes information on how to transfer designs into an embroidery machine. Different embroidery machines have slight differences in their design transfer layout, so be sure that you are following the suitable procedure, always read the manual.

One of the demands means that all storage devices should be formatted in accordance with the file system of your embroidery machine. Another demand is concerned with the type of storage device that you use. For example, if the manual to your machine requires compact memory cards, you should know their type.

Hopefully, now you will be able to resolve these issues. Although, to reduce such embroidery machine issues, you must need to read the manual of your machine because the best thing to do when trying to load embroidery designs into an embroidery machine is to take some time and learn how your machine operates, which software is installed and what is compatible with it.

Finally, don’t use a USB flash drive in your machine that is too small and has limitations on its limits. Again, finding out what works best for you from this blog can help you when trying to load embroidery designs into your machine. Also, you must have good knowledge of software to edit the embroidery designs.