mySewnet Embroidery vs Tajima Embroidery i2

mySewnet Embroidery is now presented under the CREATIVATE name, with former mySewnet subscriptions renamed Essential, Extra, and Elite. The embroidery offering includes software, ready-made designs, tutorials, and project inspiration. Tools cover design adjustment and editing, lettering, embroidery wizards, digitizing, stitch editing, embellishments, custom shapes, and appliqués. The embroidery catalog advertises more than 9,600 designs and fonts in multiple formats. The maker says the software works with embroidery machines of any brand, though premium designs are limited to mySewnet-enabled and CREATIVATE-enabled machines. Desktop, mobile, and tablet software is offered for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. Vault/Cloud can organize and store designs and send files to CREATIVATE-enabled machines. Basic is free with 100MB of Vault storage; each paid membership shown includes 2GB. Essential costs $99.99 a year, Extra costs $199.99 a year, and Elite costs $399.99 a year. Windows and Mac have stated minimum requirements, including 4GB RAM and internet access.

Tajima Embroidery i2 turns vector artwork into ready-to-sew embroidery designs inside Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW. It is aimed at screen printers, creative professionals, promotional product companies and digitizers. The software includes over 20 standard fills, 135 carved fills and more than 150 programmed fills, plus over 125 digitized embroidery fonts and TTF conversion. AutoDigitize analyzes vector artwork, selects stitch types and provides stitch estimates with 3D previews. Production controls cover garment recipes, pull compensation, underlay, stitch density and length, AutoClip, automatic satin stitching, overlap and start-and-stop placement. Thread charts support color selection, and 3D design renderings can be exported as PNG files for customer approval. Supported hosts include specified Illustrator releases on Windows and Mac and CorelDRAW releases on Windows. A high-speed internet connection is required for the listed configurations. Server-based authentication allows access from computers running supported host software. The product is paid with pricing on request through a local distributor. Tajima’s privacy policy describes collection of registration, uploaded-content and usage data.