Brother International Entrepreneur Pro PR-1000 Users Manual - English - Page 10

Machine Structure and Features Ten-needle machine embroidering Your machine has ten needles, each threaded with a different color of thread. It can sew embroidery patterns that contain several colors by automatically selecting the appropriate needle for each color. The mechanism that moves the needles up and down is called the needle bar, and the needle bars are in the needle bar case. The needle bars are named from right to left: needle bar 1, needle bar 2, needle bar 3, needle bar 4, needle bar 5, needle bar 6, needle bar 7, needle bar 8, needle bar 9 and needle bar 10. Memo ● Sewing is not necessarily performed in the order of the needle bar numbers. The thread colors assigned to the needle bars are listed on the screen. Thread the needle bars as indicated. 1 1 Needle bar 1 2 Needle 1 3 Needle bar case The machine automatically assigns a thread color to each needle. There are two methods for assigning the thread colors. With the automatic method (default method when the machine is purchased), needles that are already threaded with a color that will be used in the next pattern are assigned to the same thread color based on the needle bar assignments from the previous pattern in order to reduce the number of thread spool changes. For more professional embroidering, using a manual color sequence allows the needle bar assignments to easily be specified manually. Thread color and needle bar combinations can be selected manually to create a menu so that the needle bar assignments can be based on the thread color numbers. (Refer to "Selecting/Managing Thread Colors for Each Needle Bar (Manual Color Sequence)" on page 132.) 1 The threads threaded on the needle bars are indicated as shown here. The spool pins, thread tension knobs, thread takeup levers and thread paths, mentioned when threading the upper thread, are different according to their corresponding needle bar number. 8