Product Description

Brother's PED-Basic® is the first step toward opening up a vast world of new embroidery designs for your emboirdery machine. PED-Basic® allows you to download embroidery designs, perform simple editing operations to embroidery data (.pes files) and write those .pes files to original cards for your embroidery machine. .pes files can also be purchased or obtained from the internet. PED-Basic® features three frame sizes, a realistic stitch design preview, print design previews which can be used as placement templates when embroidering and built-in embroidery samples.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2070 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Brother
• Model: PED-Basic
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 3.50 pounds

Features

• Software for downloading embroidery designs for an embroidery machine
• Perform simple editing operations to embroidery data; write .pes files to original cards
• Various .pes files can also be purchased or obtained from the Internet
• 3 frame sizes; realistic stitch-design preview; print-design previews; built-in embroidery samples
• CD-ROM, 4M blank memory card, USB card writer box, and instruction manual included

Amazon.com Product Description
Open up a vast world of new embroidery designs for an embroidery machine with this easy-to-use software. It allows for downloading embroidery designs, performing simple editing operations to embroidery data (.pes files), and writing those .pes files to original cards. Various .pes files can also be purchased or obtained from the Internet. The embroidery-design software features three frame sizes, a realistic stitch-design preview, print-design previews for use as placement templates, and built-in embroidery samples. A CD-ROM program file, 4M blank memory card, USB card writer box, and instruction manual come included.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Card Reader/Writer
I've been doing machine embroidery for about 5 years, and just purchased my first Brother machine (which I absolutely adore). Before that, I have 2 other machines, and I used card readers/writers by Amazing Box. My first one broke. The second one still works. But, these Amazing Box products are amazingly flimsy, light and cheap. The software barely works with any operating system, and trying to used the things was always on a hope and a prayer.

Then, because I want everything to be just perfect with my new and expensive Brother machine, I bought the PED Basic box with blank card media. I plugged it into my USB, loaded the software, and transferred a design from my computer to the card without having to even look at any instructions. The card then went into my machine, the machine picked out the design, and everything stitched flawlessly.

The PED Basic card reader/writer is small and compact, but has a good amount of weight to it. It feels sturdy and of high quality. It is fast and simple to use. So, even if I didn't have 2 inferior products to compare this to, I'd still have to give this box 5 stars.

And, you definitely can't beat the price at Amazon! Now, I just have to find an additional blank card, since I like to have 2 or 3 of them "just in case".

Basic, easy way to transfer embroidery files
Not much to say about this... just that it works well for transferring embroidery files from your computer to the data card. Easy to use, basic program. Lets you do minor resizing of files, and you can look at a preview of what the design will look like once stitched.

I just wish that you could do more with this program, as far as minor edits, especially for the high cost... but I have another program for that now.

If you have Windows Vista, go to the Brother website to download a different driver for the card reader - don't use the included disc.

Fun and easy to use!
My husband purchased this for me as an accessory to my PE270D machine. It really makes transferring designs easy! It is easy to learn for just about anyone and you can even resize and view the colors for each design in the preview tab. I recommend this primarily for newbies to embroidery but of course it is great for all just for the blank card and ease of use.