Can my Brother SE350 embroidery machine read from standard memory cards and what type? ?
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at
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First, you have to have a card reader for machine embroidery and then you buy the card for your machine that is compatible with the card reader.
You use Brother memory cards or cards made for Brother machines. Again – these have to be compatible with the reader box.
You get these items from an embroidery machine dealer – preferable on-line.
Walk-in dealers don’t always have the cards in all formats, or any at all and have to order what you need.
They are more expensive than at online dealers.
To take advantage of downloading from the Internet, you need a card reader and a rewritable memory card.
You can get Brother’s PED Basic with a card for about $100 – On-line.
This is one dealer that I have bought from. They have a graphic showing how the card reader works. Note the PC requirements. http://www.sewingsupplywarehouse.com/pedbasic.html
Another dealer that I have bought from – http://www.allbrands.com/products/abp01060-0165.html
Digitizing is a horse of another color. This is software that allows you to create your own designs or digitize pictures and clip art. It is fairly expensive around $1,000.
You can download a free trial of Embird Embroidery Software here – http://www.secretsof.com/content/1853?PHPSESSID=f1d6a79654e8e476eaffaf7784b652a6 It is a very popular software and what you are downloading is the Basic program. It doesn’t digitize, but it is the base component for this software.
As you learn and want to expand, you buy plug-ins that allow you to digitize, among other things.
Free designs to download (I have used many of them) – http://www.brother-usa.com/HomeSewing/GetCreative/free-designs.aspx
When you buy or download designs, make sure they are no larger than 4 x 4. That is the maximum stitching area for the 350.
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