Patent attributes
A printable embroidery machine includes a sewing machine body, a cloth holding frame holding a workpiece cloth, a frame drive unit which has a mounting part and to which the cloth holding frame is coupled so that the cloth holding frame is moved independently in two horizontal directions perpendicular to each other, and an ink-jet printer. The body or the printer is detachably attached to the mounting part of the frame drive unit separated from the body so that the workpiece cloth held on the cloth holding frame moved by the frame drive unit is printed by the printer. A predetermined sewing reference position of a sewing needle in attaching the body to the frame drive unit corresponds with a predetermined print reference position of a print head of the printer in a case where the printer is attached to the frame drive unit.
