When looking for an industrial or commercial embroidery machine, one common question customers ask us is, “What is the best Cap Embroidery Machine option available”.

There are a lot of factors to consider when doing cap embroidery or looking for a cap embroidery machine.    Are you looking to do 3D Puff Embroidery, the back and sides of caps, etc.   

Brands to look for would be Tajima, Barudan, Butterfly, Melco, Happy, ZSK, etc.

You will also want to consider the embroidery area of where you can to embroider on the cap.  Obviously, there is only so much space on the cap that can be embroidered and factors such as width and height of the design must be considered and if the machine can embroidery in that size or space.

It is very important to consider that due to the nature of the physical structure of caps/hats and the way most all commercial embroidery machines are built, the Digitizing is one of the most important aspects to cap embroidery.  There are different techniques needed to be used when digitizing for caps and when embroidering the cap.  The seam of the cap or its bill, must be considered as well as the height and width of the design and the precise order that everything is digitized.  Otherwise, you can have buckling build up for example, that causes poor embroidery.  It’s not uncommon to have to edit a digitized design many times before it is perfect.

Home embroidery machines vs commercial embroidery machines:  

Home embroidery machines usually only have very limited embroidery area and limited cap systems or devices compared to a commercial embroidery machine.  It is recommended that if you are going to offer cap embroidery, to look for a commercial embroidery machine.

TheEmbroideryWarehouse offers great commercial embroidery machine brands such as Tajima, Barudan, Butterfly, Melco, Happy, ZSK, etc. that do very high-quality commercial cap embroidery.