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Staples has Cricut cutters on sale through 12/4/21, 25% off. These things hardly ever go on sale, so this looks like a pretty good deal.
I'm mildly interested in these cutting machines, but once again I couldn't decide between the Cricut and the Silhouette. They both seem to have plusses and minuses that make it too close to call.
CNC machines won't work well with flexible materials (cloth, vinyl) or soft ones (paper, balsa). So I don't see this as either/or, but different types of machines for different materials.I was looking at used Cricuts but decided to get a CNC instead (I think for similar or slightly more money it will wind up being more flexible although I have not purchased the knife cutter attachment and still very new to the whole thing).
Did you try using the cutting mats like are used on the Cricut?I did get a drag knife for my CNC router, but didn't have much luck when I tried to cut a custom gasket.
I used double-sided tape (like I do with other materials).Did you try using the cutting mats like are used on the Cricut?
is this website a scam ? the prices are very low compared to what you guys are seeing out there : https://www.cricutmachinesale.com/collections/Cricut-Maker?map_id=95437
I read a little bit of the terms of sale and it sounds like one might have to agree to marketing crap for life or something like that .... eeehkkk
I don't know that it is the best site but there are a bunch of sites that rate how likely a site is to be a scam. So many of these are advertised on Facebook -- they should be held accountable if they let this illegitimate sites rip off their customers...thanks BigMacDadd! i did not know about scamdoc.com
Doesn’t need any subscription to use. They have sort of a subscription for a larger variety of stock decals but you can google decals and upload them, remove the background, and use them just fine but no you don’t need one to use the Design Space software. It’s pretty easy to use too.I was considering a Cricut a year or two ago (maybe 5. . . darn COVID time. . . ) and I read that you either had to subscribe or at least be online to use it.
Based on the recent low price discussion, I googled a bit to see if that is correct, but I didn't find an obvious answer.
If any Cricut owners could either dumb it down for me or tell me a good search term to learn myself, I'd appreciate it. My base question is "If I buy it for $150, can I use my own software, never connected to the internet, to create and 'print' whatever I want?"
Feel free to flame me or post a ton of links to the same question if I just butchered my google search. . .
Sandy.
Doesn’t need any subscription to use. They have sort of a subscription for a larger variety of stock decals but you can google decals and upload them, remove the background, and use them just fine but no you don’t need one to use the Design Space software. It’s pretty easy to use too.
I read that you either had to subscribe or at least be online to use it.
You'll need an internet connection to run Design Space, upload files and save projects. You can save projects locally in addition to online, but I'm not sure you can do a local-only save. You may be able to work offline without saving, we're too new at it to have tried that. The Cricut connects to computer/phone/tablet via USB or Bluetooth for instructions.
I installed Design Space on 3 desktop machines (Win 10 & 7) so 3 of us could edit projects at our own desks. When done, we save the project and go pull it up from the computer that's USB-connected to the Cricut.
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