I have 2 embroidery/sewing machines - the babylock ellageo and the babylock ellure. The ellageo takes disks and everything is in color - but this was a very expensive machine at the time. The babylock ellure goes from the computer to the machine - it is not in color but for what I paid for it - at the time 1200.00. I use this all the time for sewing. I haven't done embroidery in a while but they both are great machines.