DS 12 will transform the way you design. Experience the intuitive new interface that makes digitizing easier than ever.
Impressive New Features
Customization for Personal Preference
Tailor your workspace effortlessly with a customizable theme, space-saving features, and unlimited tabs for easy design navigation.
Seamless Machine Communication
Communicate effortlessly with your embroidery machine through MelcoOS integration, ensuring lightning-fast embroidering on Melco machines.
Total Control, Anywhere
Enjoy the convenience of user account management with new cloud-based licensing, allowing for seamless transitions between computers while enjoying updates delivered straight to your account.
Precision Auto-Digitizing
Upgrade your digitizing game with our enhanced Conversion Assistant, ensuring pinpoint accuracy. Refine results swiftly using color-based element selection.
Intuitively Powerful
Dive into the seamless, familiar Windows experience of DesignShop 12, where intuition meets power in design.
Unrivaled Responsiveness
Our software, designed in-house by Melco engineers, stands as the most responsive in the market, setting the bar for quality and precision.
Enhanced Lettering
Get more control over lettering elements
with enhanced arched text, typing on
paths, and an easy-to-use text-box editor. PLUS: Process expanded character sets and easily create your own alphabets.
High-Res PNG Export
Export stunning hi-res PNG images with our advanced 3D stitch preview, perfect for achieving an embroidery look on DTG or Dye-sub printing.
Effortless Cross-Stitch
Emulate the charm of handmade cross-stitching effortlessly with our innovative stitch-types.
Better Borders
Attain mastery in adding multiple borders around elements or whole designs.
Closest Point Connection For Manual Digitizing
Automatically re-sequence elements in a design to save time and reduce trims while ensuring smoother machine operation.
Gradient Characters
Upgrade your alphabets by easily adding eye-catching gradient fill to lettering.
Accelerate digitizing and product creation with the automation of common tasks like Auto Primer Stitch, Auto Basting Outline, Auto Underlay, Auto Stippling and Auto Sequencing.
Work with industry-standard file types, including DST, EXP, EXP+, EPS, ART8*, PES, EMB* and more. Plus, our proprietary OFM format allows wireframe editing, machine settings, and color information to be saved and loaded for production.
Increase Production and Boost Efficiency
DesignShop 12 includes a host of features that boost productivity, make your workspace more flexible, and make digitizing easier than ever.
Streamline your production process with design barcoding. By using a barcode reader at anytime to recall the design, you can eliminate the need to search for design files on hard drives or disks.
Built-in charts for Isacord, Madeira and other major industry brands.
Customization For Personal Preference
Intuitive Interface
Tailor your workspace effortlessly with the new
customizable theme.
Unlimited Workspace Tabs
Easily work with multiple designs at once with space-saving workspace tabs.
Editable Guides
Get more precise control with editable guides and the new snap-to feature.
Enhanced Lettering
More Precision
Get more control over lettering elements
with enhanced arched text, typing on
paths, and an easy to use text-box editor.
Expanded Alphabets
Process expanded character sets and easily create your own alphabets from third party designs.
Custom Line Type
This feature caps the line length. If more letters are entered than the length will support, the letter height is scaled automatically for better readability.
Total Control, Anywhere
Cloud-Based Licensing
This game-changing upgrade allows for more flexibility and a smoother experience for every customer.
User Account Management
Seamlessly transition between computers while enjoying updates delivered straight to your account.
Hassle-Free Activation
Users can now activate and deactivate their own licenses. Plus, all you need to activate is your Melco Cloud login credentials.
System Requirements
2.2 GHz + Latest Intel or AMD 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) multi core processor
Microsoft® Windows® 11, Microsoft® Windows® 10, Microsoft® Windows® 8.1, Microsoft® Windows® 8, or Microsoft® Windows® 7 - all with latest service packs installed (32-bit or 64-bit Editions)
4GB RAM minimum (8GB or higher is recommended)
80 GB hard disk space or more (at least 40 GB free disk space after installation)
Graphics card: compatible with Intel HD 4000 Graphics or higher
512MB or higher of graphics memory (non-integrated)
Dual Monitors (recommended for DesignShop)
Mouse or Tablet
Current Internet browser to access online content
Internet connection
Local administrator rights are required to install software
DesignShop 12 supports UHD 4K screens (selecting Medium or Large Icons is preferable)
