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These disks are NEWLY MANUFACTURED stock, made to our specifications. NOT "New Old Stock" that may be over 15 years old.
If you digitize your own designs, or even if you just like to store designs on floppy disks, you've probably noticed that the 720k disks your machine demands that you use are pretty tough to find. And if you do manage to find some, do you discover them to be problematic?
There is a reason for these problems. You see, technology keeps improving at a continually accellerating pace. What was state of the art last year is obsolete and unsupported today. As the floppy disk evolved, numerous new design advances were created. The first floppies were eight inches across, then came the 5 1/4 inch models. Soon, a more reliable, smaller model in a hard-case was born. It was the second generation of these newer disks - the Double-sided, Double-Density (DS/DD) disk - that was quickly adopted by the commercial embroidery machine manufacturers as they created new mediums for their machines to evolve from the use of paper tapes for storing designs.
But soon, technology pushed the floppy disk to a newer standard, the High-density disk (HD) that we still use today for transfering files and other small data-containment jobs. It has a denser media and an extra hole punched into it's case to differentiate it from it's predecessors. The HD disk has been the standard for floppy disks for some time now, and most manufacturers see little reason to make DS/DD disks anymore.
Some embroiderers own devices to punch a hole in the case of HD disk cases to make their embroidery machines think that they are dealing with a DS/DD disk. That rarely works well because the media inside the HD disk requires a stronger magnetic pulse to write to the disk than a real DS/DD disk requires, so magnetic images are barely written to the disk, and they degrade shortly after the disk is written.
In short, if your machine requires DS/DD disks, or if you just like the stablity of storing your designs on the "less crowded" 720k format, you'll need real DS/DD disks. Despite the difficulty in finding manufacturers of these disks, as a software manufacturer, we still can get them. Also, because we are a software manufacturer, we are able to get the highest-grade disks available, made for automatic duplication equipment.
But even with the access we have to a higher-quality product, we still found problems. In fact, we found that even with the best grade of disks on the market, roughly 2% of all disks we received were faulty. So when we receive an order of disks, we don't just put them on the shelves for delivery to you. We put every disk into the hoppers of our automatic duplicating equipment and format them a second time. If they fail, they go in the trash. If they pass, we're confident that they will serve you well for a long time. SMR Software places it's One Year guarantee on every disk we sell. If any disk you purchase from us proves defective, we will replace it at no charge.
Order Formatted DS/DD Disks
For Tajima, Brother, Melco-DOS, Toyota, all home machines which use a
Windows computer to supply designs, and other machines using DOS or Windows formats.
Do you digitize your own embroidery designs? Do you have trouble finding Double-sided, Double-Density (DS/DD) disks? If you do find them, do you have trouble with corrupted designs and bad disks? If this sounds like the problem you are having, then read on!
Technology keeps expanding at an ever increasing pace, and as a new tool, processor, or medium becomes the new "norm," whatever folks were using before becomes obsolete. Face it, even though nearly every embroidery disk format relies on DD disks, they have become obsolete and difficult to find.
Even when you do find DS/DD disks, they often don't seem to perform correctly on some machines. Why is it that some disks just don't seem to keep your embroidery designs intact? There is a reason - technology. Technology has allowed disk manufacturers - including the ones who still make DD disks - to do something wonderful for their users that they couldn't do for them before. Technology has allowed disk manufacturers to offer preformatted disks at about the same price as unformatted ones. The manufacturer is doing computer users a favor by not making computer users format their own disks!
The problem is, some embroidered designs disks use a different format from the DOS one that the manufacturers put on the disk. So what do you do? You re-format the disk to the format you need. But something awful happens when you do that - If you don't completely erase the old format before you apply the new format (which your disk drive cannot do) - small traces of the DOS format remain behind. Those traces can create magnetic impulses as your data is read that can corrupt your design.
That is why we offer embroiderers an alternative. We purchase disks from the best manufacturers that still make this medium. We purchase only duplicator grade - the highest grade available. We can't buy them unformatted anymore, formatting is part of the process these days, so we do the hard work for you.
First, we place the disks into our disk duplication machines, and format them. That may sound silly, but our equipment rejects about 2% of all disks that we receive. Those are disks that would have failed for you as well. Once the disks are formatted, we run the disks through a second machine - a bulk demagnetizer. This machine removes nearly every trace of magnetic imaging that the disk received when it was written.
The result? DS/DD disks - -with no formatting. By processing in this way, we are selling the best disks - duplicator grade, which is reserved for software manufacturers - without the side-effects that preformatted disks can carry. Also, SMR Software places it's One Year guarantee on every disk. If any disk you purchase from us proves defective, we will replace it at no charge.
Order Unformatted DS/DD Disks
For use in machines that utilize Non-DOS or Non-Windows formats
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