Originally Posted by romanojg

I have 5D Pro but Viking includes an organizier with thier machines which does a lot. In the organizier it has a thread manager, I enter all of my threads by company and the thread #(color) and then when I pull up a design in either the pro or the organizer, I click on color tone and then tell it if I want it to pull the colors from a company different than the one the creator of the design calls for, normally instead of chosing one company since I have threads from different companies I tell it to pull the colors from "My Threads" and it will choose the colors the closet to the orginal ones the creator of the design chose. It sure makes my life a whole lot easier because as we all know, different monitors and even different thread companines don't always show the thread as they appear. This takes the guess work out of it for me, I look at the color changes and it tells me the color, the brand and the thread #. This also acts like a shopping list because I can print out "My Threads" and it tells me what I have on hand so that I don't buy duplicates by accident.

The new Royal sounds great so far from what Viking has shown,which isn't much. They are releasing small bits of infor on it at a time. I've gotten two new (slightly used) machines in the past two yrs and they were great deals but as much as I might want one with the latest bells and whistles, I'll wait. I still have so much to learn on my machine and software before I look at learning a whole new one; plus the cost is a big factor too.