Patent ID: 7571690

Claim:
A printable embroidery machine comprising: a sewing machine body that sews a workpiece cloth, a cloth holding frame holding workpiece cloth to be sewn, 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, wherein the sewing machine body and the ink-jet printer are detachably attachable to the mounting part of the frame drive unit so that the workpiece cloth held on the cloth holding frame moved by the frame drive unit is printed by the printer when the printer is attached to the mounting part, whereby the mounting part is commonly attachable to the sewing machine body and the ink-jet printer, and a predetermined sewing reference position of a sewing needle in attaching the sewing machine 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.