Janome 15000 User manual

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Memory Craft 15000
Features & Benefits

Send Designs to your
Machine Wirelessly
No more USB’s or cords required!
Now you can send embroidery
designs from your computer or
your iPad directly to your sewing
machine using a wireless connecon. Smart, Simple,
and Convenient.
Smart and Useful iPad Apps
Janome’s apps, AcuEditTM and
AcuMonitorTM will bring a whole
new dimension to your sewing and
embroidery. AcuMonitorTM allows
you to watch the progress of the
embroidery stch-outs on your iPad
– now you can leave your sewing
room without leaving your
machine. The AcuEditTM app
lets you design embroidery
anywhere, anyme. It
includes the full design eding
capability of your Horizon Memory Cra 15000 on
your iPad. When your design is complete, simply use
the machine’s wireless connecon to transfer.
Advanced PC Connection –
Horizon Link Suite™
Even though it’s as easy as ever to create and edit
designs on the Horizon Memory Cra 15000’s giant
touchscreen, you can take your eding capabilies
ever further! Use your regular computer to edit
designs on screen. Easily drag, drop, and edit using a
mouse. With Horizon Link, your eding screen is only
limited by the screen you hook up to your computer.
Plus the Horizon Memory Cra 15000’s wireless
capability means that you can send designs without
hooking the computer up to your machine.
Industry’s Largest LCD
Touchscreen
Everything is bigger, brighter, and
bolder on the Horizon Memory Cra
15000’s 9” LCD touchscreen, with
7.7” x 4.7” of design workspace.
Edit, design, and create on the wide
screen, and view in amazing clarity and
16,000,000 colors.
AcuFil Tool and Hoop
Horizon Link Suite soware includes Janome’s
signature quilng and embroidery design program,
AcuFil. The AcuFil tool allows you to easily design
embroidered quilng paerns for quilt nishing.
It includes a quilt calculator – simply enter the
dimensions of your quilt and the program calculates
and lays out automac sppling to perfectly cover
your enre quilt top. Choose from many quilng
designs for combining and embroidering onto your
quilt top. The program allows you to print templates
for precise posioning. A special hoop that includes a
plasc template and magnec clamps comes standard
with the machine, and allows you to hoop bulky quilt
layers with ease.
11” to the Right of the Needle
It’s our largest bed space ever. Perfect for quilng,
home dec, or any project where added space
is a must. But it
also means that
the machine can
accommodate a
larger hoop, with all
of the stability and
precision that Janome
is known for!
AcuFeed Flex™
Our AcuFeed™: Layered Fabric
Feeding System has long been
legendary in the sewing and
quilng world for its amazing
precision and power. The
AcuFeed™ Flex system is
removable – when not in use,
simply store it in one of the
ample accessory trays. Adding
and removing is easy! AcuFeed™
Flex now comes in two useful opons. The two-
pronged AcuFeed™ feet advance fabric awlessly
from the top and boom. Use this system for quilng,
seaming, and tradional sewing. Our special one-
pronged AcuFeed™ feet give precise control for more
detailed work, like installing zippers and matching
seams.
iPad

Stitch Composer™
The unique Stch Composer™ program allows you
to create and edit stches from you computer. 100
stches from the machine are built into the program,
or for a truly customized experience, create your own
from scratch! The program is easy to use, and
transferring stches to your machine is a snap.
Linear Motion Embroidery™
Janome pioneered the home embroidery market
with an X-Y movement in the 1990s with the Memory
Cra 8000. As the world’s largest manufacturer of
industrial desktop robots,
we implemented and
perfected this technology.
This experse now comes
back to sewing, with our
state of the art Linear
Moon Embroidery™
System. This system uses 3
linear moon guides – two
on the X axis, one on the
Y – which allows for unrivalled stability and smooth
movement, even with our giant GR hoop.
Independent Bobbin Winding Motor
Never run out of full bobbins! The Horizon Memory
Cra 15000’s independent bobbin winding motor
enables you to wind bobbins even while you are
sewing. It’s the perfect sewing mul-tasker.
Easy Threading Bobbin Case and Cover
The specially
designed
bobbin case
and cover
mean there’s
no need to pull
long thread
tails up and
through when you rst thread the machine. Slip the
bobbin thread in the cover plate guide; the built in
cung blades trim the tail to the correct length for
a super-clean start to your stching line. Aer the
inial threading, the auto-thread cuer takes care of
trimming and re-seng the tails each me.
Bobbin Winder Plate with Cutter
The new bobbin winder plate has ve cung blades.
Faster and smoother winding, easy thread cung,
and your bobbin is ready to go!
Auto Presser Foot Lift
The auto presser foot li automacally lis the
presser foot aer a thread cut – when the thread snip
buon is pressed, or aer a programmed thread cut
at the end of a row of decorave stches - allowing
you to keep your hands on your project at all mes.
It can also be set to raise at the end of any seam, with
the needle in the down posion for easy pivong. This
great feature simplies the sewing process – you have
less manual steps to save me and increase eciency.
9mm Zig Zag
That’s right – you can create
9mm wide stches on the
Horizon Memory Cra 15000!
The extra width makes all of
your decorave stches bolder,
brighter, and more disnct.
Wider, more disnct stches
allow you to ll more area with
stching, quicker - saving you
valuable me while sewing.
One Step™ Plate Converter
Using the right tools at the right me is important in
sewing. When using lightweight fabrics, or piecing
quilts, a straight stch needle plate makes all the
dierence. Our One Step™ Plate Converter allows
you to easily switch and use the perfect plate for your
project. Simply press a buon to release one plate;
then snap a new one in place – it takes only seconds,
with no screwdrivers required! The enhanced plate
allows for users to move the needle slightly on the
straight stch plate for scant ¼” seams. This system
also includes a sensor that will only allow a straight
stch to be sewn when the Straight Stch Needle
Plate is in place, so you never have to worry about
breaking a needle! Both needle plates are included as
standard accessories.

Bobbin Thread Sensor
When embroidering or sewing large projects, it is
somemes dicult to keep track of how much bobbin
thread is le. The bobbin thread sensor alerts you
when your bobbin thread is running low – so you’re
never caught in the middle of a seam or embroidery
color. The Horizon Memory Cra 15000 has an
advanced sensor system which allows you to set the
level of sensivity for the alert – customize it for
large scale embroidery projects, when you want to
make sure you always have plenty of bobbin thread,
or small projects with short seams. This feature is
also very helpful for sewing with dierent thread
thicknesses. You can increase the sensivity when
using a thick bobbin thread, and lower it for thin
threads.
Variable Zig Zag™
Advanced tools give advanced abilies for creave
expression. The Horizon Memory Cra 15000 includes
a great tool for creavity: Variable Zig Zag™. This
feature enables precision control over the stch
width via the knee li! Thread painters will rejoice
at the ease of control of the stch width. Begin
with a straight stch, then while the machine is sll
running, press against the knee lier to widen your
stch to a 9mm zigzag. Release pressure to gradually
return to a straight stch for a tapered nish. Don’t
want a 9mm stch? You can
easily control the maximum
width of the stch seng in
the machine’s set mode. This
advanced control opens up
amazing new possibilies for
creaon expression with free
moon quilng, thread painng,
raw edge appliqué, free moon
monogramming, and more.
High Speed Embroidery
The Horizon Memory Cra 15000 stches at an
incredible 1,000 stches per minute. Janome
engineering has allowed this fantasc speed
embroidery without compromising stch quality or
precision.
Compact Embroidery Unit
Great design is in the details. Janome engineers have
found a way to oer large, solid, professional style
embroidery – and sll keep the embroidery unit as
compact as possible. No other brand can oer so much
embroidery space, with such a small machine foot
print. The aachable embroidery unit snaps right into
the back of the machine – you don’t have to worry
about giant sewing spaces to accommodate bulk to the
right of the needle! Plus, this innovave embroidery
unit placement means you can use the free arm,
even when sewing embroidery. It’s the kind of smart
engineering that Janome owners have long known to
expect!
Extra-Large Embroidery Area
Our largest hoops and
embroidery area ever! Our
GR Hoop oers 9” x 11.8” of
embroidery area. The unique
design of the GR hoop also
includes special magnets
that aid in stability. No other
machine can oer such a
large area, and guarantee
the stability and precision of Janome embroidery.
Even the legendary Janome Square SQ hoop has
expanded, to 9” square, and . That means that you
can embroidery 9” quilng squares. The 5.5” square
SQ14, AcuFil Quilng and Free Arm hoops also come
standard with the machine.
Jump Thread Trimming
With Janome embroidery, simply press “Go”! Don’t
worry about stopping a design to trim threads. With
automac jump thread trimming, the machine cuts
jump threads, allowing you to save me and energy
even as you create beauful, intricate embroidery.
The Horizon Memory Cra 15000 includes more
opons for jump thread trimming, making your
embroidery experience even more customizable!
Aer the machine trims the thread, it pulls the
thread tail to the back of the embroidery for awless,
professional results.
Cutwork Enabled
The Horizon Memory Cra 15000 has a special
cutwork funcon built directly into the machine.
When formaed designs are imported to the
machine, the MC15000 displays the embroidery
paern with detailed informaon, including the
proper cutwork needles for inseron. It also

automacally changes the sengs for thread sensors
and jump thread trimming when a cutwork needle is
aached. It’s just one more way the Horizon Memory
Cra 15000 sets free all of your creave opons.
91 Needle Positions
The Horizon Memory Cra 15000 oers an
unbelievable 91 needle posins. This allows for
more detail in decorave stches, and incredible
ne adjustments in all stch creaon. And with 9mm
stch width, this sort of bold detail can be easily
appreciated.
Seeing is Believing!
The Horizon Memory Cra
15000 features a wide variety
of amazing light – right where
you need it most. Our High
Light™ is acvated by pulling it
forward. The adjustable light
provides a beacon that directs
light right to the needle, so
you can see your stches with
clarity, and needle threading is
a breeze. Ten ultra–bright LED lights in ve locaons
illuminate the bed of the machine, providing a
dazzling work area. Even the funcon buons are
illumined – so they’re easy to nd and easy to use. For
even more focus, the machine includes three special
magnifying glasses at three levels of magnicaon
that aach directly to the face plate: slide into place
for extra visibility, and store it out of your way when
not in use. Together, this system reduces eye strain,
and allows you to sew for hours in comfort!
Free Motion Quilting
Finishing your projects from start
to nish is a feeling that can’t be
matched – especially when your
project is a quilt! The Horizon
Memory Cra 15000 makes free
moon quilng easier than ever.
Customize the foot height for your
project and preference – set it high
for a loy quilt with lots of bang,
or low if you like a lile drag on your stches. You can
even memorize your seng to use later.
AcuGuide™ Cloth Guide
Now your seam allowances can be as accurate as
our precision embroidery system. Simply snap the
cloth guide onto the carriage arm of the embroidery
mechanism and enter your desired seam allowance.
The guide features a long; raised lip, for perfectly
guiding your fabric, and seams can be set between
1⁄16” to the le of the needle to 8 ¼” to the right of the
needle. The carriage moves every 0.1mm for nely-
tuned sengs.
Automatic Presser Foot Pressure
A fabric sensor automacally detects the thickness of
fabric, and adjusts the downward pressure placed on
the fabric accordingly. This ensures that your fabric
never slips, yet moves smoothly and easily as you sew.
The presser foot pressure can also be
adjusted manually in the seng mode. This allows
you to reduce the pressure on thicker fabrics, or to set
to your own personal preferences.
Improved Ergonomic Knee Lift
The knee li has been redesigned to make it
ergonomic and adjustable to accommodate sewists
of most any size or height. You can now sit directly
in front of the needle with the knee li perfectly
posioned for free-moon quilng, variable zig zag,
or general sewing.
More Stitches, More Built-in Embroidery!
The Horizon Memory Craft 15000 includes an
amazing array of built-in stitches and embroidery
designs. You’ll find 500 built-in stitches, including
13 different styles of buttonholes (and with Stitch
Composer your stitch count is infinite). Three fonts
provide variety for decorative stitch monogramming.
480 built-in embroidery designs are standard,
including Designer Collections and an amazing
array of designs from around the world. The
monogramming capabilities are better than ever, with
10 monogramming
fonts, and 2&3
letter options.
With so many
standard stitch and
embroidery designs
your creativity is
unlimited!