The following is an wonderful explanation of the POEM Embroidery machine, Huskygram,& Singer Embroidery Unlimited by Robin Wilk, one of our members.
They are all the same machine, Huskygram (Viking sold this) &
POEM (Passap sold this) are grey, EU is white. It is the POEM (Personal
Options Embroidery Machine) made by Aisin of Japan (who also made Toyota
professional embroidery machines). It originally came with CS-I software
(would stitch out existing designs but no digitizing capabilities).
CS-II was an upgrade to allow digitizing. When Singer started selling it
as their EU (Embroidery Unlimited) they tweeked the software, added a
few features and another alphabet font (brush) and called it the EU
software. It's the best and if you decide to buy a used machine, you can
upgrade to the EU software for about $100 (an EXCELLENT idea). Used
machines can be had for about $500-$700, new machines for
about $900 (or more depending on where you buy it). It will come with a
4"x4" hoop (the large hoop). You can buy the small hoop (sock hoop
2"x4") and there are bigger hoops available (Big Hoop or Hoop d Hoop
12"x4", and the Hoop d Hoop II 12"x8" approx) They are good for bigger
combined designs and have their own software programs to split the big
designs into parts. There are hat hoops available to do baseball type
hats (Hat Rack by Protofab is the one I have). This machine does NOT use
cards for design storage. All designs are stored in one of several
ways... on hard drive, or on regular floppy disks or on zip disks. There
are a couple conversion programs available now for converting other
formats to CSD and there are thousands of free designs on the internet,
enough to keep you busy for a lifetime without buying (although we do
seem to buy a few design collections, too!) BTW, any regular computer
scanner works with the POEM (don't need an expensive dedicated scanner).
This machine can be a challenge to get running on some computers,
especially older ones, however, my installation on my Pentium went
flawlessly in about 5 minutes. If your sons can figure out com ports,
and where your modem, mouse, etc are assigned, you've got it made!
I'd recommend joining the POEM mailing list and learning from other's
experiences. It is a wealth of info and since there is very little
dealer support for this little machine, a very good place to ask
questions. The POEM website has our design exchange archives and a
hotlink to join the list.
The URL is:
http://geocities.datacellar.net/Heartland/Ranch/3636/POEM.html
This is a nice machine with more professional digitizing capabilities
than the other machines, but it seems to be an orphan. Viking dropped it
to sell their more profitable #1 and 1+, Singer doesn't really promote
it since the XL-100 & XL-1000 sell for much more (better mark-up for
them, I believe). However, if you want to stitch on big bulky jackets,
etc, it doesn't have a great amount of clearance around the stitching
head for excess material. We get around that by "dressing" the little
guy (putting the machine inside the garment to stitch). If you want to
see a demo of the machine go to Jenny's studio at:
http://www.jennys-sewing-studio.com/index.html
I like this machine, have two of them, LOVE the low cost and the
built-in functions that others are spending $$$$ for in other software
programs. BTW, I don't sell them or have any connection, just a happy
owner since '93. Any more questions???
You can download pictures of the parts catalog-Part1 Part2 for the POEM.
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