Left chest
$7per design
Polos, shirts, fleece, softshells. Up to about 3.5 x 2 inches.
- Every stitch format you need, not just one
- Printed worksheet with the colour sequence
- Small text set by hand, not auto-scaled
- Revisions until it sews clean
Hand-punched since 2016
Embroidery files that sew right the first time.
We digitise logos for decorators, uniform suppliers and promo printers — one design at a time, by hand, with the density and pull compensation set for the fabric you are actually running. Plus vector art when the source file is a mess.
$7Left chest
$8Cap logo
$15Jacket back & up
4–8hUsual turnaround
Every order comes back with
- Every stitch format your machine reads, not just one
- A worksheet: stitch count, colour sequence, dimensions, thread notes
- A flat preview image you can send the client for sign-off
- Revisions until it runs clean, at no extra charge
Before and after
Flat artwork in. Machine-ready stitches out.
Drag the handle on any of these to see what actually changes. The left side is the file a client sent us; the right side is the design rebuilt as stitches, with density, underlay and pull compensation set for the fabric named underneath.
Design
Result
Design
Result
Design
Result
Left is the artwork a client sent; right is the same design rebuilt as stitches and run on the fabric named underneath. Drag the sliders on the work page to see them overlaid. These are our own files — we never publish a client mark without asking, and never someone else's work.
Who we work for
Mostly other shops, which is why we keep our mouth shut about it.
Contract embroiderers, workwear suppliers, screen printers who get asked for embroidery, promotional distributors, schools and clubs going direct. A good part of the work is white-label — your client never sees our name, and we never post a logo without asking.
- Contract embroidery shops
- Workwear & uniform suppliers
- Screen printers
- Promotional distributors
- Teamwear & sports clubs
- Hotels & spas
- Motorcycle & patch clubs
- Design studios
Two things, done properly
Digitising, and the vector work that usually has to happen first.
Embroidery digitising
Your artwork rebuilt as a stitch file: underlay, density, satin widths, pull compensation, stitch order and trims all set by a person who knows what the machine will do with them. Not an auto-trace with the defaults left on.
Left chest, caps, jacket backs, sleeves, appliqué, patches, 3D puff, towels — and the crest nobody else wanted to quote.
Vector art & logo redraw
A low-res JPEG turned into clean, scalable paths you can print at any size. Rebuilt node by node, not auto-traced — because an auto-trace carries every JPEG artefact straight into your press-ready file.
Delivered as AI, EPS, SVG, PDF and CDR together, with colours named to your Pantone references.
Positions & techniques
Nine jobs, nine different sets of rules.
A cap is not a left chest with different dimensions and a towel is not a polo. Each of these pages says what actually changes in the file — worth two minutes if you are about to brief a digitiser.
Left chest
The bread-and-butter job. Polos, oxfords, fleece, softshells.
Cap logo
Structured fronts, six-panel seams, cap-driver ready.
Jacket back
Big panels, big stitch counts, and pull you have to plan for.
3D puff
Foam-backed caps and letters with a clean, sealed edge.
Sleeve
Narrow, curved, and hooped on an awkward frame.
Towels
Terry pile, knockdown stitch, and edges that hold.
Applique
Placement, tack, trim, cover. Properly sequenced.
Patches
Twill, felt and full-coverage patches with a clean border.
Custom logos
Crests, mascots, gradients and the jobs nobody else wanted.
Pricing
Per design. Not per stitch.
Charging by stitch count rewards a digitiser 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.
Cap logo
$8per design
Digitised for a cap driver: bottom-up, centre-out, seam avoided.
- Sequenced for cap frames, not flat hoops
- Seam-aware column placement
- Flat version of the same logo on request
- Revisions until it sews clean
Jacket back
$15and up
Nine to twelve inches. Price depends on colours and detail, quoted before we start.
- Per-element pull compensation
- Split files with registration marks
- Trim and colour-change sequencing
- Revisions until it sews clean
Sequence logos start at $10 for two colours and $15 for four. Full price list and what counts as complex →
How an order runs
Four messages, start to finish.
There is 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.
You send the artwork
Any format, any quality. Tell us the finished width, the garment or fabric, and the file type your machine reads. If you are not sure, send it anyway and we will ask.
We quote it in writing
A price and a delivery time, usually inside twenty minutes during working hours. If the logo has a problem that will show up in thread, you hear about it now rather than after you have paid.
It gets punched by hand
One digitiser owns the file from start to finish. Underlay, density and compensation are set for your fabric, the sequence is planned to minimise trims, and it gets a virtual sew-out check before it leaves.
You run it — and tell us if it fights you
Send a photo of the sew-out if anything looks off. We adjust and resend, as many times as it takes, at no charge. That is the whole warranty and it has not needed changing.
Delivery
You get the formats, plural.
Some digitisers hand over one DST and charge again when you ask for PES next month. We send the set, because saving a file out twice is not a service worth billing for.
- EMBWilcom source
- DSTTajima
- PESBrother, Babylock
- JEFJanome
- EXPMelco, Bernina
- VP3Husqvarna Viking, Pfaff
- HUSHusqvarna Viking
- XXXSinger
- CNDMelco condensed
- PDFAny
- JPGAny
- PNGAny
Vector art comes out as
- AIAdobe Illustrator
- EPSAnything print
- SVGWeb, cutters
- PDFUniversal
- CDRCorelDRAW
Why shops stay
The boring reasons.
It arrives when we said
Four to eight hours on standard positions, twelve to twenty-four on the heavy stuff. If something will be late you hear it from us before the deadline, not after.
A person punched it
No auto-digitising, 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.
Somebody replies
Between the two of us the chat is covered across most of the clock. You will not get a ticket number and a promise to escalate — you will get an answer, sometimes a blunt one.
What we will not do
- Run your logo through an auto-digitiser and call it hand work
- Charge you again for a second file format
- Put your client's logo in our portfolio without asking
- Take a job we know will sew badly just to book the money
What we would rather you did
- Tell us the fabric — it changes the file more than the size does
- Send a sew-out photo when something is off, even a blurry one
- Ask for the editable source if you might want edits later
- Say if a deadline is real, so we can sequence the day around it
Questions
The ones we get every week.
There are a few 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.
How long does a digitising job actually take?
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.
What do you need from me to start?
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.
Do you charge per stitch or per design?
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 digitiser 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.
What if the file does not sew properly?
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.
Next step
Send the logo. Get a price and a time back.
No form-filling marathon and no sales call. Attach whatever artwork you have, tell us the size and the machine, and you will get a number and a delivery time in the reply.
Or email orders@zbpunch.com — orders taken 24/7 — someone is on chat almost all day.