About Embroidery & Embroidered Caps
At Copy Caps® , we embroider your design right into the fabric of
the baseball cap. First, we design your cap on our EDS (Embroidery Design
Software) system. The designs we create for you are specially digitized
files which instruct the computerized embroidery machine exactly
how to stitch the pattern onto the cap. In the old days (pre-PC), these
files were called "tapes" and the design process was called "punching".
Like the old IBM cards of the past, designs were created by punching holes
into a paper tape that was fed through a tape reader. Now it's all done
on a PC with Windows XP. While the actual stitching is automated, the designing
is manual. Our team of trained artists take the description of the design
that you give us and we create a great one-of-a-kind cap meeting your specifications. 
In addition to embroidering on the front of the cap, we also can embroider
lettering and graphics on the sides and back. Each placement on the cap
requires an individual design file and a manual set-up of the cap. What
we cannot do is embroider on the bill. Most of the cap bills on the market
today are made of flexible plastic. Embroidery machines cannot penetrate
that plastic - therefore caps that you see with embroidered bills are constructed
with pre-embroidered fabric, as opposed to our method of embroidering directly
on finished caps.
Washing your Cap
Most baseball caps can be washed. Don't worry about the bills, they're
made of flexible plastic. While some people have had success just popping
the cap into a washing machine, we strongly recommend hand washing with
a mild detergent in warm water. Since most caps are 100% cotton and will
shrink, do not dry your cap in an automatic dryer. Furthermore, if you're
one of those folks that likes to wash your cap in the top shelf of your
dishwasher, be very careful that your detergent does not contain
bleach. We use either Rayon or Polyester thread - these threads cannot
be exposed to bleach.