Embroidery Only Machines

Do you by chance know if this embroidery machine will hook up to the computer or will be able to be used with the amazing Box?

Rochelle

Thanks for the info, but, what is a flash card? Can I get designs off the internet?

Rochelle

Any idea on the price? The ULT2003D is running about $3200. Julie

Your right it looks nothing like the one I saw demoed in Japan. It had a screen on the left that went to the bottom of the machine and was more square in shape that that one. I wonder if there is another one coming out that Janome US has not told us about yet. Also the hoops on the one I saw were much bigger . It was a nice working machine and took all the designs currently on the market. It was in the range of $3-4000 with its own programme.

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That sounds more like the new MC10001, which is an update to the

10000. I've read the new MC9500 has an MSRP of $2499 US, and the MC300E has an MSRP of $1299. As far as I know, all 3 machines have a direct link to a computer and all use a standard PC card...the type that plugs into a laptop computer. You can also get an adapter that lets you use the standard Compact Flash cards which are used in many digital cameras.

gwh

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I called Janome and they said that it would not directly hook up to the computer. I have Embird, so I wouldn't purchase their software and I have the amazing box to put the card into to retrieve the designs from the computer.

Rochelle

I saw your other post, but, if you don't have a reader/writer box, how would you actually get the designs on the card. I was told that there is software for it, but, I have embird and the amazing box and I suppose being that this new machine and the 10000 both have .jef formats I could use my amazing box and just buy a new card for it. No?

Rochelle

to answer some questions all in one hit the 300E is not a direct link by the usb or serial cable, you can get the designs to the machine by ATA which is a compact flash card which is used by digital cameras and you need a card writer they sell here in the uk cheaply from around

12$ so I am sure in the us they will be even cheaper and a hell of a lot cheaper than amazing box and brother card writers. I am not sure what software would be needed if any, surely if embird will save .JEF format that would be what is stored on the card then taken to the machine . in the UK we will have to wait longer than people in the US. as far as the price is concerned the price that has been mentioned in other posts is MRP but I understand that most machines are sold below the MRP I have the techicnal information forgive me if there are any typos these are copied from the Janome tech sheet that was supplied at the convention in las vegas so there may be changes especially as the machine is not due to be unveilled to dealers in the uk until september!

JANOME MC 300E SPECS

lcd screen - 3.75" x 2.75" designs from pc via off line ( ATA card)

Embroidery folders built in to store designs - Built in 1 folder ATA card one folder

Eco mode 1 - 30 min +off Embroidery format - Jef

Memory device ATA card PC design Card

Maximum embroidery field - 5.5" x 7.9"

Embroidery sewing speed 400 - 650 spm

Monogramming fonts - 3

Built in designs Large designs - 10 Standard designs - 60 Combo Designs - 20 1 and 3 letter monogramming emblems Favourite thread selection Standard hoops Large 140 x 200 reg 126 x 110

11 programmed languages Built in embroidery memory Drat and drop for design position adjustment design resizing90/100/110/120% design combination zoom function flip rotatio 45 degrees embroidery time indicator emb stitch counter - every 10 stitches thread tension control - manual presser foot sensor cover/case - soft cover

Sounds good to me!

The machine I saw was not a combination machine. It only did embroidery and was a single needle machine. Used all types of desings though.

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Yes, you would need a "reader/writer" box that can read/write compact flash cards. These are available from Free (US$10 and a $10 rebate) to about $20, from just about every store or website that sells cameras or computer stuff. Readers that read a variety of four or more different camera formats ("SmartMedia", "CompactFlash", "Secure Digital", Memory Stick" etc.) can be obtained for about the same price.

The cards themselves come in a variety of sizes, from 8MB up to a Gigabyte, at prices ranged from US$10 for the small one to a couple of hundred for the gigabyte versions. Smaller cards should be adequate for embroidery applications.

Using embird or any other software program, the best way is to save your designs to your hard disk and then copy the ones you want to the compact flash card with your reader (which looks to the operating system like a removable hard disk).

NOTE: This only applies to sewing machines that use camera-equivalent cards. Earlier machines just about ALL use proprietary formats that are NOT the same as any camera-memory.

- Herb

I spoke to tech support of Janome and they said that it takes a compact flash card and I need a pcmcia adaptor. Is that a reader/writer adaptor? They said that the flash card goes into the adaptor and that hooks up to the computer. The person from tech said the adaptor then goes into the machine. Would that be by a usb port? How could the adaptor go into the sewing machine?

Rochelle

That clarifies things quite a bit. Janome is confusing the issue by saying that the sewing machine takes compact flash cards - it really just takes a PC Card, which could be for any of the available media.

- Herb

Alex Goover wrote:

Herb, I reread your post and I was not very explicit in what I wrote prior. I actually spoke to tech support again and the adaptor goes into a slot in the machine, type II - whatever that means- then the card goes into the adaptor in the slot in the machine. In other words, there is a slot but, no built in adaptor. For $1300, they should supply it! I just ordered one for $5 and that included shipping. Should I get a

256mb flash card, or is that too big. They had them in costco for $50, sandisk.

Rochelle

Alex's post clarified it the same as you have.

I think that 256MB might be overkill - designs are usually well under

100K each. There may also be some performance issues, depending on how the Janome needs it to be formatted. These cards aren't even as fast as a hard drive, and if it has to be completely formatted every time (as the Viking proprietary cards are) then bigger is slower. But that might not be the case.

Here are some comparitive prices for cards (this was just the first site I came to that had different sizes on the same page)

proprietary cards that hold a dozen or so designs are about amegabyte in size. (Viking's are smaller because .hus files are morecompressed than .pes, for instance. I don't have any feel for the JEFfiles)

The Janome apparently can use any kind of card as long as you have the right adaptor; they probably recommend the compact flash because it's currently among the least expensive and most durable formats.

(Costco is where I got my 256MB Sandisk CF for my camera - they and Fry's keep leap-frogging each other's price)

- Herb

rochelle wrote:

The sewing machine treats the card in the same way a computer does. It will set up folders on the card and then read and write the data to and from those folders. It does not format the card each time you want to write a new design to it. You could use the rest of the card's capacity to store other files from your computer.

gwh

Get a cheap memory card and try it then if you so choose later and more fluent with the process get a larger memory card or just more cards for the cheap price.

Herb,,,yes the Janome 10K has a PCMCIA slot on the side of it. This opens up many possibilities.