Some people like to print off the design to follow the thread colors at their machine...others pull up the design on their computer to follow the colors. My machine has a lge color screen, so I just like to view my designs on the computer to select what I want to stitch. The above viewer program lets you print off one design or 24 thumbnails--and that is handy for saving in a notebook! I hope your machine people can guide you to a solution.