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Streamline your Embroidery Business with Automation
The Embroidery Web API is Wilcom's embroidery automation software tool kit. It enables embroidery and apparel companies to add embroidery capabilities to their custom web sites, web applications, and internal business systems by calling the API to do embroidery specific tasks.
Compatible with all version .EMB designs from Wilcom digitizing software up to e4/4.1, The Wilcom API enables you to go from order to production stitch data automatically. It creates TrueView simulation images and production-ready stitch data for existing embroidery designs, plus personalized lettering, re-coloring existing designs, or create new lettering, monograms, and team names. Output to .EMB, .DST and other popular machine stitch data formats.
Hassle Free, Hosted Subscription Web Service
The Embroidery Web API is provided as a hassle-free hosted solution available through affordable and budget-friendly subscription plans. Hosted in the US and other select countries with Amazon Web Services, you can have confidence in both speed and reliability.
How it works
The Wilcom Embroidery Web API uses a modern RESTful API interface. It does not provide the user interface, but by using an assigned unique Application ID and Application Key, your web application will make calls to the API using simple http: URLs, passing designs and parameters back and forth in .XML data packets.
Your web application will display the results and control the end-users experience.
Extensive Integration Documentation to Create your Own Web Application
As a subscriber you, have direct access to our extensive developer portal that contains all the integration documentation you or your developer needs to integrate with the Wilcom Embroidery Web API.
Starting with a free API trial and demonstration plan, you and your team have the opportunity to learn and explore the capabilities.
To showcase the capabilities, you can also access the array of concept web applications and source code
Embroidery Web API Capabilities
Visualize embroidery designs as TrueView images
creates .PNG image files scaled accurately to real embroidery size
selectable resolution of 96- 300DPI
transparent background to display on any color web page or garment image
select EMB colorway to view, or get images of all colorways in .EMB designs
Get design and color information
size, stitches, colors, stops, trims, thread colors, multiple colorways, stop sequence color list
Re-color existing designs
upload a new set of thread colors to replace existing design colors
specify thread colors for .DST and other formats which don't have color info
Create embroidery lettering
specify text, alphabet, height, and color. Single or multiple lines
from a selection of 205 digitized Wilcom alphabets. Add custom fonts
specify many parameters – baseline types, bold, italics, etc
Add new lettering to existing designs
create new lettering and add to existing designs
specify the relative position of the designs to be combined
Edit lettering in existing designs
automatically edit lettering objects in .EMB designs - text, color, font, height
handles multiple lettering objects in the design
custom lettering & stitching parameters are set by your .EMB design
Create team name lettering
Specify a list of names, and basic team name parameters
Lettering by itself or combined with an existing design
Create new & edit monograms
Choose from 16 monogram styles, with or without ornaments
Instant creative personalization
Save & convert embroidery design formats
save designs in .EMB design formats from e2, e3, e4, e4.1
convert .EMB to stitch data .DST, .U01, .U03, .EXP, .TAP, .TBF, etc
Preview customer artwork on garments
preview vector or bitmap artwork
creates .PNG with transparent background to display on garment
Ready to get started?
After you have received your API account details by email, you can SIGN IN to access detailed developer documentation, and to gain limited access via the Trial Use Plan.
For commercial use, you must upgrade your account to a commercial plan. Check out the alternatives on the Plans page. Then discuss pricing, terms and conditions with your Wilcom sales rep to best suit your needs.
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