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XXX embroidery files for Singer machines.

XXX is Singer’s embroidery format. Turn a logo into an XXX for your Singer with Qepe, sized for its hoop and read back before it is saved.

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Not released yet. From the first release: 7 days free, then €149 a year.

Launch offer: €99 for the first year, for the first 100 shops.

What is a XXX file?

XXX is Singer’s embroidery format, the file Singer’s embroidery machines read. It keeps the colour of each thread with the needle points, jumps and colour changes. Qepe writes it for Singer machines, sized for the hoop, and reads every file back before it is saved.

  • Qepe’s Singer profile follows the SE9185: one needle and its 17 × 10 cm hoop, with the field Singer publishes.
  • Pfaff machines read XXX too, in Qepe’s Pfaff profile.
649 needle points from Qepe’s file of the Pine Ridge Outdoor sample, in 29 mm. A XXX keeps each one, in the order the machine stitches them.

How to make a XXX file from a logo

  1. Open the logo

    PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, PDF or AI. Qepe grades the file first: Good file, OK file or Poor file, with the reason.

  2. Pick the machine

    Choose Singer in the machine chip, and Qepe uses its needles and hoops. XXX is the machine’s own file there, or one click away under Export.

  3. Set the size, garment and colours

    Left chest, cap front, sleeve, full back or your own size in millimetres; ten garments, each with its own underlay, density and pull compensation.

  4. Digitize and check

    The Auto Digitizer makes the stitches. Quality scores them against the artwork out of 100, and Fix all corrects what is safe to correct.

  5. Export XXX

    Qepe writes the file, reads it back and compares every needle point with the screen. A file that doesn’t match is never saved, and the old one stays.

Convert PES to XXX

Open the PES file, or one in any of the 40 formats Qepe opens: it opens stitched as the file has it, to recolour, move or add a name to. Export writes the XXX and checks it like any other file. A machine file has no shapes to stitch again, so resizing it by more than 10 % changes its density: for a new size, digitize from the logo.

What Qepe compares before a XXX is saved

  • Every needle point, each within 0.06 mm of the screen
  • Every thread change and needle
  • Every trim and stop
  • The header the machine reads: stitch count, colours, extents and label
  • The thread names, where the format keeps them

Machines Qepe writes XXX for

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Questions

What is an XXX embroidery file?
Singer’s embroidery format: the needle points, jumps and colour changes, with the colour of each thread.
Can I use Qepe with a Singer home embroidery machine?
Yes. Choose Singer in Qepe and it writes XXX, sized for the machine’s hoop, from your logo or from a file in any of the 40 formats Qepe opens.

The other formats Qepe writes

How to digitize a logo, step by step

Your next logo, ready to embroider.

Turn the next logo your customer sends into a checked, machine-ready file, on your Mac or PC.

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Not released yet. From the first release: 7 days free, then €149 a year