Professional Digitising and Embroidery businesses invest in very powerful digitising software programes, like PULSE Illustrator/Signature. In-house digitising is preferred, to enable testing and ongoing refinement, to ensure that all designs have precision outcomes and remains cost efficient.

Digitising is the process of re-creating (re-drawing) an image and converting it into stitch files:- a permanent editing file (PXF), and a temporary machine readable file (DST). You can expect to pay between R150 to R250 per hour for a once-off digitising fee, depending on the amount of detail in the design.