Reactivate your Archive of old designs
Many companies have large archives of embroidery designs, that have accumulated over the years. These designs are collected in sample books or sample hangers, on punch cards gathering dust on shelves, or they are stored on old floppy disks or hard disks.If you just have the samples, you can only scan, redesign and punch them again. In case they are punched on the old cards, you need a card reader to convert them into a digital format. You are lucky, if you still have one in working order, but it’s a time consuming undertaking to read and convert all the cards.Designs were usually punched with old UNIX or DOS based systems, that have since been retired, are defective, or no…