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Bernina 790 PLUS

Finest for Sewing & Embroidery

  • Great New Embroidery Features
  • Large Sewing & Embroidery Field
  • Create your own stitch patterns
  • Sew longer with the extra large bobbin
  • Convince yourself: BERNINA innovations

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Overview

BERNINA 790 PLUS: The perfect machine for Grand Ideas

Beautiful embroidery every time

  • Place your design exactly where you want
  • Clean embroidery results on the top
  • Intuitive & very easy to use

The B 790 PLUS is enriched with exciting embroidery features like Pinpoint Placement, Enhanced Editing Functions, Total Embroidery Stitch Control and much more. For further information, see the details.

Quiet & precise sewing

  • Ideally suited for decorative stitches
  • Sew & embroider for longer periods of time
  • More time for your creativity

The BERNINA Hook sews high-precision stitches up to 9 mm in width with speeds up to 1,000 stitches per minute. The bobbin holds 70% more thread than standard bobbins.

A lot of space just for you

  • Embroider maxi-sized motifs with ease
  • Comfortably maneuver large projects
  • Designed for the Maxi Hoop

The B 790 PLUS offers a full 10-inch extended freearm including ten inches of space to the right of the needle. Enjoy a large sewing and embroidery area.

 

Automatic features are yours!

  • No manual cutting at the end of a seam
  • Enjoy semi-automatic threading
  • No manual lowering of the presser foot

Thread is cut automatically when you reach the end of a seam or a color change in embroidery. The presser foot lowers automatically at the beginning of a seam.

Love the BERNINA innovations

  • Achieve finest stitching results
  • Stitches are kept consistent
  • Assistance with free-motion sewing

The BERNINA Adaptive Thread Tension provides ideal thread tension for each and every stitch type, in any variation. The BERNINA Stitch Regulator guarantees precise stitch quality and results.

Ask your on-screen support

  • Ask how much stabilizer you need
  • Find the proper needle and foot
  • Learn more about sewing and embroidery

The Sewing and Embroidery Consultants and the built-in tutorials offer direct on-screen support and answer your questions whenever you need them.

 

Sew silk & leather like a pro

  • Handle special materials with ease
  • Enjoy superb fabric feed
  • Optimum visibility while sewing

The innovative BERNINA Dual Feed is easily engaged when needed and tucks completely out of the way when it's not.

Create your personal stitch

  • Design & create your own stitches
  • Draw your stitch design directly on the screen
  • Convert the design into a stitch pattern

Edit stitches and create your own. The creative possibilities are endless and your stitch library is continuously expanding.

Enjoy embroidery at its best

  • Switch to embroidery mode with one click
  • Edit any design with ease
  • Position the design precisely

Complex design combinations can be re-sequenced according to color. Save the finished design on the machine or on a USB stick.

 

The B 790 PLUS - perfect for embroiderers!

Pinpoint Placement

  • Place your design on the fabric exactly where you want it.
  • No need to use the template anymore.
  • Easy to use: Simply select two points and match them with the markings on the hooped fabric.
  • Perfect results quickly and precisely.

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Enhanced Editing

  • Undo & Redo: Simply undo or redo steps while editing or combining designs to return to your initial position.
  • Group & Ungroup: Combine designs to edit all at one time with group. Break apart designs to edit individually with ungroup.
  • Rearrange: ​Customize the design layer stitch-out sequence. Use rearrange in combination with the group function.

Total Embroidery Stitch Control

  • Thread Away Mode: Pulls the threads down to the underside for clean embroidery results on the top. Program jump stitch length to manage thread cuts. Subject to design properties. No more manual trimming on the top side needed.
  • Invisible & Smart Secure: Securing stitches become invisible as the tie-on/off stitches are sewn in stitch direction. Smart secure adds tie-on/off stitches to a design, if none are preset.

Bonus Embroidery Designs & Alphabets

  • Dozens of new embroidery designs, including: monograms with frames, in-the-hoop projects and special technique designs.
  • Includes nine newly digitized embroidery alphabets such as Curly, Happy Times, Deco and Rounded.

Intuitive & very easy to use

  • Embroidery Consultant: For each embroidery technique the consultant helps you to choose the correct foot, needle, thread and stabilizer according to your fabric to achieve the best results.
  • Toggle between mm & inches: The embroidery design size and the hoop dimensions can be shown in mm or inches.
  • Reads most popular file formats: EXP, DST, PES, JEF, PCS, SEW, XXX.

Optional Midi Hoop

Enjoy embroidering with the BERNINA Midi Hoop, guaranteeing quick and perfect embroidery performance.

  • Very easy to hoop and unhoop
  • Get full tension on your fabric
  • Waste less stabilizer
  • Ergonomic twist-lock mechanism
  • Size: 10.5 x 6.5 inch, 265 x 165 mm

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Features & Functions

 NEW BERNINA 790 PLUSBERNINA 770 QEEBERNINA 770 QEBERNINA 740BERNINA 700
Price $12,499.00 $8,499.00 $6,499.00 $4,999.00 $5,999.00
Hook system
BERNINA Hook
BERNINA Hook
BERNINA Hook
BERNINA Hook
BERNINA Hook
Maximum sewing speed (stitches per minute)
1000
1000
1000
1000
NA
Length of freearm to the right of the needle
10” / 254 mm
10” / 254 mm
10” / 254 mm
10” / 254 mm
10” / 254 mm
Color touch screen
7 Inches / 18 cm
4.3 Inches / 10 cm
4.3 Inches / 10 cm
4.3 Inches / 10 cm
7 Inches / 18 cm
LED sewing lights
30 LED
30 LED
30 LED
30 LED
30 LED
Multi-function knobs
x
x
x
x
x
Maximum stitch width
9
9
9
9
NA
Maximum stitch length
6
6
6
6
NA
Sewing in each needle position
x
x
x
x
-
Number of spool holders
2
2
2
2
2
Semi-automatic needle threader
x
x
x
x
x
Automatic thread cutter
x
x
x
x
x
Adjustable presser foot pressure
x
x
x
x
Manual thread cutter
3
3
3
3
3
BERNINA Dual Feed
x
x
x
x
Adaptive Thread Tension
x
x
x
x
x
Create and save stitch combinations
x
x
x
x
-
Memory (short-term/altered stitches)
x
x
x
x
NA
Memory (long-term/altered stitches)
x
x
x
x
NA
BSR enabled, straight stitch and zigzag (separate BSR foot required)
x
x
x
x
-
Start/stop button (stitching without foot control)
x
x
x
x
x
Slide speed control
x
x
x
x
x
Upper thread indicator
x
x
x
x
x
Lower thread indicator
x
x
x
-
x
USB interface for PC connection
x
x
x
x
x
USB interface for USB data stick
x
x
x
x
x
Changing stitch settings while sewing
x
x
x
x
-
BERNINA foot control with back-kick function
x
x
x
x
Opt.
Needle stop up/down
x
x
x
x
Drag & Drop
x
x
x
x
x
Bobbin winding while sewing/embroidering
x
x
x
x
x
On-screen help
x
x
x
x
x
Built-in needle threader
-
Sewing tutorial
x
x
x
x
-
Creative consultant
x
x
x
x
-
Personal program
x
x
x
x
NA
History function (most-recently-used stitch patterns)
x
-
-
-
-
Setup program
x
x
x
x
x
Eco mode
x
x
x
x
x

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 NEW BERNINA 790 PLUSBERNINA 770 QEEBERNINA 770 QEBERNINA 740BERNINA 700
Pattern start/end function
x
x
x
x
Elongation
x
x
x
x
Security function program
x
x
x
x
Stitch Designer
x
-
-
-
360° directional sewing
x
-
-
-
Sideways motion feed
x
-
-
-
Number of stitch patterns (incl. alphabet) total
1764
992
992
800
Connecting stitches
x
-
-
-
Utility stitches total
32
30
30
29
Buttonholes (incl. eyelet) total
15
13
13
11
Automatic buttonhole length measuring system
x
x
x
x
Automatic buttonhole
x
x
x
x
Manual multi-step buttonhole
x
x
x
x
Button sew-on program
x
x
x
x
Darning programs
2
2
2
2
Decorative stitches total
506
283
283
200
Decorative sideways motion stitches
117
-
-
-
Quilting stitches total
34
50
50
23
Cross-stitch programs
37
20
20
21
Tapering/skyline stitches
28/27
-
-
-
Sewing alphabets
8
6
6
5
Monograms (with sideways motion)
x
-
-
-

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 NEW BERNINA 790 PLUSBERNINA 770 QEEBERNINA 770 QEBERNINA 740BERNINA 700
Maximum embroidery speed (stitches per minute)
1000
1000
1000
-
1000
Built-in embroidery designs
332
140
140
-
320
Embroidery alphabets
18
6
6
-
18
Embroidery design format
EXP, DST, PES, PEC, JEF, SEW, PCS, XXX
EXP, DST, PES, PEC, JEF, SEW, PCS, XXX
EXP, DST, PES, PEC, JEF, SEW, PCS, XXX
-
EXP, DST, PES, PEC, JEF, SEW, PCS, XXX
Onscreen editing of designs: positioning, mirroring, rotating, scaling, combining
x
x
x
-
x
Pinpoint Placement
x
-
-
-
x
Undo/Redo
x
x
Group/Ungroup
x
x
Rearrange embroidery designs in combination
x
-
-
-
x
Invisible Secure
x
x
x
-
x
Smart Secure
x
x
x
-
x
Thread-up Command
x
x
x
-
x
Programmable jump stitch cutting
x
x
x
-
x
Thread Away Mode
x
x
x
-
x
Embroidery Consultant
x
-
-
-
x
Mega hoop functionality (embroidery field: 400 x 150 mm)
x
x
x
-
x
Maxi hoop functionality (embroidery field: 400 x 210 mm)
x
x
x
-
x
Automatic hoop recognition
x
x
x
-
x
Freearm embroidery
x
x
x
-
x
Personal memory for embroidery designs
x
x
x
-
x
Lettering manipulation (WordArt)
x
-
-
-
x
Importing stitch patterns
x
x
x
-
Color resequence
x
-
-
-
x
Cut jump stitches
x
x
x
-
Sequence control
x
x
x
-
x
Basting
x
x
x
-
x
Endless embroidery
x
-
-
-
x
Position recall
x
x
x
-
x
Embroidery tutorial
x
x
x
-
x
BERNINA Embroidery Software Compatible
x
x
x
-
x
BERNINA PunchWork Tool compatible
x
x
x
-
x
BERNINA DesignWorks Software & Tool compatible
x
x
x
-
x

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Accessories Included

BERNINA Stitch Regulator (BSR)

The BERNINA Stitch Regulator (BSR) adapts precisely to your current sewing speed to produce absolutely consistent stitching.

 

Reverse pattern foot # 1C

Reverse pattern foot # 1C is the ideal presser foot for sewing forward and reverse-feed utility and decorative stitches.

 

Reverse pattern foot # 1D

Reverse pattern foot # 1D is the ideal presser foot for sewing forward and reverse-feed utility and decorative stitches.

 

Overlock foot # 2A

Overlock foot # 2A lets you neaten seams easily and sew high-quality hems, waistbands and overlock seams on knit fabrics.

 

Buttonhole foot with slide # 3A

Depending on the model, Buttonhole foot with slide # 3A determines the desired buttonhole length for identical buttonholes either via a sensor or manually.

 

Zipper foot # 4D

Thanks to its narrow, centrally positioned toe, Zipper foot # 4D can stitch very close to the zipper coils, allowing it to sew the zipper on neatly.

 

Blindstitch foot # 5

Blindstitch foot # 5 is suitable for sewing blind hems on all fabrics. When this foot is used, you can hardly see the stitching from the front.

 

Jeans foot # 8D

Jeans foot # 8D produces neat straight-stitched seams on tough, heavy fabrics such as denim, leather or canvas.

 

Open embroidery foot # 20C

Open embroidery foot # 20 / 20C / 20D is ideal for embroidering with your sewing machine. The indentation in the sole of the presser foot allows it to glide smoothly over dense stitches.

 

Drop-shaped embroidery foot # 26

Thanks to its special tear-drop shape, Drop-shaped embroidery foot # 26 allows you to embroider with the embroidery module and to darn delicate fabrics.

 

Sideways motion foot # 40C

Sideways motion foot # 40C enables multi-directional sewing, and allows you to sew out large sideways motion stitch patterns.

 

Embroidery module L

Embroider creatively like a pro – with the embroidery module L, you can express your creativity on the extra-large embroidery area.

 

Small embroidery hoop

The Small embroidery hoop (for normal use / free-arm embroidery) is a whiz at embroidering tubular items such as sleeves or pant legs.

 

Medium hoop – for medium-sized designs

The Medium hoop is a useful tool for the accurate embroidering of medium-sized projects with the BERNINA embroidery machine.

 

Large oval hoop

The Large oval hoop is suitable for both design combinations and extensive embroidery designs. The template makes quick work of accurately positioning the project in the hoop.

 

Free-arm slide-on table for more sewing space

The BERNINA Free-arm slide-on table offers greater comfort thanks to an increased sewing area, without affecting free-arm function when sewing.

 

Free-Hand System (FHS) / Presser foot lifter

The Free-Hand System (FHS) / Presser foot lifter lets you raise the presser foot and lower the feed dog with your knee. Recommended particularly when working with delicate fabrics.

 

Stylus for the 7 and 8 Series

The stylus for the 7 and 8 Series – ideal for working on the touch screens on BERNINA sewing and embroidery computers. Operate the touch screen by gently tapping it.

 

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