The terms puncher and digitizer are often interchanged in embroidery Puncher originated with the creators of Jacquard punch cards and Schiffli Refers to the person who used the punch machine to translate the embroidery cartoon into an embroidery tape to be read by an embroidery machine Punchers entered every stitch of the design by aligning a stylus over the cartoon and pressing a button punching a hole on the card or tape or producing a machine movement Digitizing is done by entering points which the embroidery software/computer or machine translates into stitches