Wilcom Embroidery Studio e4 Lettering

Lettering, Monogramming, Customizing and Machine Connection Software

Powerful automatic lettering, customizing and machine connection software for non-digitizing staff in a retail embroidery shop or production facility.

With full professional control of all lettering and stitch settings, over 226 digitized embroidery fonts and automatic stitching of TrueType and OpenType fonts, create professional quality naming and lettering designs quickly and easily without the need for a digitizer.

Combine lettering with resizable logos or stock designs. Automate repetitive jobs with the Team Names feature and automatically send stitch files to the embroidery machine.

“Wilcom has been doing lettering for 39 years, use their expertise. Simple, fast, productive, accurate, legible and fewer thread breaks.” – B. Singer, Barudan

Overview
Features
Why Update?
System Requirment
Machine Formats

Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio e4 Lettering is powerful automatic lettering, customizing, and machine connection software for non-digitizing staff in a retail embroidery shop or production facility.

World-leading lettering can be added to your own designs or even those outsourced
Create beautiful monograms
Team naming for sports and workwear
Low-cost embroidery software for admin and production staff

The industry standard for embroidery software
If you outsource your embroidery digitizing, nine times out of ten, your contractor will use the Wilcom EMB file format. Why not streamline the process by using the same software so that you can easily edit the designs without losing quality or stitch data?

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Customize your embroidery business
Take your embroidery further. Carefully crafted features designed to widen imaginations, boost efficiency and expand your business.

newe4design New and Improved Lettering
Choose from over 200 professionally crafted embroidery fonts or convert any TrueType or OpenType font instantly. Adjust individual letters to adapt to customer logos or to improve production.
Get the look you are after by refining kerning, word spacing and even individual letters. Built-in intelligence remembers your changes for next time.

10 NEW embroidery fonts PLUS support for Arabic & Thai languages
Embroidery fonts including 3D foam, logo fonts and specialty fonts
NEW predefined “Lettering Art” and envelope shapes
Easier selection of embroidery fonts by style or type
Expanded capabilities and easier to use Team Names feature
Improved quality of automatic TrueType/OpenType stitching.

e4 Lettering Logo Easier Standard Team Names

Speed up production and don’t waste time manual handling of team names! Mail-Merge style features import a list of names, auto-fits them to your baseline and outputs for either single or multi-head production.

Create and manage individual’s names by team
Import/Export team members via .txt or .csv files
Create single baseline designs with all team names in one .EMB file
Export team names for stitching individually or in batches
Create a matrix layout of multiple team names in large frames.

Enhanced Monogramming
Choose from several different type baselines (arc, circle or vertical), or get creative with enveloping. EmbroideryStudio’s Monogramming tool helps you to quickly and easily combine type styles, decorative motifs and borders to create personalized monograms for your customers.

69 professional predefined monogram designs or create your own
Extensive but easy to use monogramming user interface
Separate tabs for Designs, Letters, Ornaments and Borders
Advanced stitching parameters hidden unless asked for
Use embroidery fonts or TrueType fonts.

Built-in editing for different fabric types
A design created for a towel can now be stitched on silk scarf with Auto Fabric Assistant. This tool automatically applies the most suitable underlay, pull compensation and stitch density settings for your chosen fabric.

Save time and money with fast, quality stitch results
Optimize your production with full control of underlay, pull compensation, connectors, tie ins/offs, trims, jump and stop machine functions. You can even edit individual stitches to address any problem areas.

e3 Features Letter Lettering Embroidery Machine

Send designs to your embroidery machine with ease
Stitch Manager, Machine Manager and Connection Manager give you all the options to make sending designs to production a snap! You can also edit machine format values to get the best results.

Why Update?

With the long anticipated release of EmbroideryStudio e4, there has never been a better time to update your Wilcom software.

There are many reasons why keeping up to date with the latest technology is important. Firstly, ensure your business doesn’t suffer when your old computer crashes and it’s time to replace it with the newer hardware and operating software. You don’t want to be caught with any downtime. Not just that, but the latest EmbroideryStudio is so much more powerful that it runs faster and comes with both online and personal support.

New features to help you work faster, improve your processes and get more business done:

whyupdate01 Now over 200 professional embroidery fonts

Wilcom is famous for quality lettering. Use any of the 200+ pre-digitised fonts for speed, precision and zero thread breaks! You can also convert any TrueType and OpenType fonts with ease.

25 NEW embroidery fonts including 3D foam, logo fonts and specialty fonts
NEW predefined “Lettering Art” envelope shapes
Easier selection of embroidery fonts by style or type
Expanded capabilities and easier to use Team Names feature
Improved quality of automatic TrueType / OpenType stitching.

monograminge4design Enhanced Monogramming

69 professional predefined monogram designs or create your own
Extensive but easy to use monogramming user interface
Separate tabs for Designs, Letters, Ornaments and Borders
Advanced stitching parameters hidden unless asked for
Use embroidery fonts or TrueType fonts.

advancedesigne4 Advanced Integrated Design Library

Search designs in seconds by customer, order, date or any text field
Designs are automatically indexed for fast search. No manual categorization required
Browse designs from all folders in one screen, or folder by folder
Group and sort designs by customer, order, date, folder, design status, stitches and more
Quickly see recent designs by date, no matter what folder they are in
Batch operations on multiple selected designs. Open, convert, print, stitch and catalogue.

orderjobe4design Order Job Feature

Save customer, order & job details in the .EMB design file. A separate database is not required
Identifies the garment, quantities, sizes, colors and approval status
Display job details with high resolution product mock-ups in .PDF for customer approval
Estimate stitch counts from customer artwork using enhanced Auto-Digitizing
Create digitizing requests as .EMB designs and manage status in the Design Library
Minimize printed worksheets by sending .EMB with job details to production computer.

DesigningFeatures productvisualizer Enhanced Product Visualizer and Customer Approvals

Create mock-ups of designs on high resolution garment images in the required colors
Wide selection of high resolution predefined generic products included
Add your own custom product images
Move and re-size product images within the design
Print new .PDF approval sheets with job details or email directly to customers for approval
Save and record the product image directly in the .EMB design file for future use.

embroiderye4design More efficient design workspace

4K monitor support, large or small icons, optional labels
Improved arrangement of toolbox tools with quick‑access flyouts
Switch between multiple open designs effortlessly with new design tabs
Visualize stitching sequence with the new Stitch Player using classic media player controls
New Color toolbar commands and My Threads docker for easier color management
Large, full featured Open dialog displays design details
“Open Recent Designs” with thumbnail view.

whyupdate02 Multi-user Network Dongles

No need to worry about dongles going missing, if you have several operators using Wilcom software they can now be purchased and installed with just one Network security dongle.

whyupdate03 Hoop It!

Streamline production with automatic hoop selection and avoid those unnecessary frame crashes

newe4design New and Improved Lettering

The world class Wilcom lettering got even better plus there are with 10 NEW professionally digitized fonts PLUS support for Arabic and Thai languages! Now Includes with Unicode support and OpenType Glyphs for fancy lettering New 3D foam, outline, running stitch and two color fonts. There is also an improved font preview management and Team Names feature.

PC Specifications for EmbroideryStudio e4.5

Please ensure you have the correct hardware to ensure the software runs well. EmbroideryStudio e4.5 is compatible with 64-bit Windows 10 operating systems. If you prefer, you can also run the software on a MAC.

Note: An internet connection is required for updates and dongle registration.

The following are the minimum and recommended system requirements for EmbroideryStudio e4.5.

Minimum Requirements

CPU – Intel® Core i3 (3rd Gen or later) or AMD Athlon™ FX-6350 or later
Operating System – Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Edition or Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit Edition
Browser – IE 11.0 or later
Memory – 8 GB
Free Hard Disk Space – 40 GB
Graphics Card and Monitor- Support for Highest Color (32bit) and resolution (1600 x 900)
USB Ports – 2 free for installation (3 for upgrades)
Sound Card – Required for multimedia training
Internet Connection – Required Product activation and registration, periodic software updates, access to news, community, product blog, tutorials, and product documentation and during installation, to download Windows features.

CPU – Latest Generation Intel Core i7 processor (4.0 GHz +)
Operating System – Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Edition or Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit Edition with the latest updates
Browser – Microsoft Edge or later
Memory – 32 GB
Hard Disk Space – 256 GB or more (Solid State Drive)
Free Disk Space – 60 GB or more
Graphics Card and Monitor – Support for Highest Color 32bit and 1920 x 1080 resolution or higher. 2GB or more of graphics memory (non-integrated)
Monitor – Dual Monitor
USB Ports – Required for security device. 2 free for installation (3 for upgrades)
Sound Card – Required for multimedia training
Backup – External hard drive, cloud storage or other
Internet Connection – Required Product activation and registration, periodic software updates, access to news, community, product blog, tutorials, and product documentation and during installation, to download Windows features.

Machine Formats supported by EmbroideryStudio e4.5

The software works with all major embroidery machine brands

Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio e4.5 provides all the brains to your machine. As the industry’s universal embroidery software, we offer support for all the major embroidery machines including Barudan, Tajima, Brother, SWF, Melco, Happy, ZSK and more.

Embroidery Machines

Machine Format	Description
Barudan	This format is used for many Barudan machines. It supports up to 9 needles. The Barudan format is suitable for paper tape, FMC disks, and the DSB file format.
Barudan Chenille	This format is used only for the older BELM – A3C series of Barudan Chenille Machines with 5 Chenille colors. Newer models use Barudan FDR-II Chenille Combination.
Barudan FDR-II Chenille Combination	This format is used for newer models of Barudan Chenille machines supporting 6 chenille colors such as the BEDYH and BEDSH. Using this format, you can digitize pure Chenille or even a combination of Chenille and Lockstitch in the one design.
Barudan FDR-II Lockstitch	This format is currently used for BED* series lockstitch machines and is the standard for all new Barudan lockstitch machine models. It supports up to 15 needles and optional sequin attachments.
Barudan FDR-II Twin Sequin	This is a Barudan twin sequin machine. The design needs to be digitized using this machine format for it to run on Barudan machine with a twin-sequin attachment.
Barudan FDR-II Twin Sequin Chenille Combination	This is a Barudan twin sequin and Chenille combination machine. The design needs to be digitized using this machine format for it to run on Barudan machine with a twin-sequin and chenille attachment.
Barudan Z Series	This format is used for Barudan Z series machines with 10 or more needles.
Bernina
Brother / Babylock
Dahao
Happy
Inbro	This format is used for main types of Inbro machines.
Janome
Laesser	Laesser MST file format for schiffli
Melco	This format is used for main types of Melco machines.
Melco Chenille	This format is used for Melco-enabled Chenille machines.
Pfaff	This format is used for main types of Pfaff machines.
Pocket machine
Schiffli	This format is used for Schiffli machines.
SWF	This format is used for main types of SWF machines.
SWF Twin Sequin Machine	This is a SWF twin sequin machine. The design needs to be digitized using this machine format for it to run on SWF machine with a twin-sequin attachment.
Tajima	This format is used for main types of Tajima machines.
Tajima TBF	This is used for Tajima needle addressing capable machines. TBF (Tajima Binary Format) file format is a more intelligent machine format which holds needle addressing information. The design needs to be digitized using this machine format for it to run on Tajima machines with a twin-sequin attachment.
Tajima TMCE-100	This format is used for Chenille-enabled Tajima machines.
Tajima TMCE-600	This format is used for Chenille-enabled Tajima machines.
Toyota	This format is used for main types of Toyota machines.
Zangs	This is the format for Zangs and Marco brand machines and pre-1988 ZSK machines without trimmers.
ZSK 1	This format is for ZSK machines that have 7 or fewer needles – generally those older than 1991.
ZSK 2	This format is for ZSK machines that have more than 7 needles and those characterized by a single-top thread trimmer.
ZSK TC	This format is for ZSK machines that accept Transport Code Disks (DOS format disks).
SWF	This format is used for main types of SWF machines with improved support for .EBD.

Please note that some machine formats and file formats are tied to certain elements like schiffli and chenille.

Rhinestone Machines

Wilcom software can read and write .YNG file format for Yongnam GemMaster v2.9 machines. Bling files can be send directly to the CAMS machine.

How to connect my Wilcom software to my machine?

Helpful hints and tips on connecting your Wilcom software to your machine can be found in our Support website and in the User Manual provided with your software.