So, the wife wants a "Cricut" computer controlled die cutter, for making
scrapbooking stuff. Looks cool enough, basically a X-Y plotter with a
knife instead of a pen. But, it doesn't seem to have a way to cut an
arbitrary pattern, and (of course) you have to buy each font on a
cartridge for 50 bucks each or whatever.

Anyone have a source for something like this? Let me send an arbitrary
outline to a machine that'll cut it out for me? Seems like an easy
enough product to find but I'm coming up with some very wild google
responses.

On 12 Mar 2008 01:40:02 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote:

So, the wife wants a "Cricut" computer controlled die cutter, for making
scrapbooking stuff. Looks cool enough, basically a X-Y plotter with a
knife instead of a pen. But, it doesn't seem to have a way to cut an
arbitrary pattern, and (of course) you have to buy each font on a
cartridge for 50 bucks each or whatever.

Anyone have a source for something like this? Let me send an arbitrary
outline to a machine that'll cut it out for me? Seems like an easy
enough product to find but I'm coming up with some very wild google
responses.


Mount a low power laser on the plotter in place of the knife
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

Dave Hinz wrote:
So, the wife wants a "Cricut" computer controlled die cutter, for making
scrapbooking stuff. Looks cool enough, basically a X-Y plotter with a
knife instead of a pen. But, it doesn't seem to have a way to cut an
arbitrary pattern, and (of course) you have to buy each font on a
cartridge for 50 bucks each or whatever.

http://www.rolanddga.com/asd/product...ka/default.asp

--Winston

Is it a plastic decal machine ?

Martin
Martin H. Eastburn
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TSRA, Endowed; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal.
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
http://lufkinced.com/


Dave Hinz wrote:
So, the wife wants a "Cricut" computer controlled die cutter, for making
scrapbooking stuff. Looks cool enough, basically a X-Y plotter with a
knife instead of a pen. But, it doesn't seem to have a way to cut an
arbitrary pattern, and (of course) you have to buy each font on a
cartridge for 50 bucks each or whatever.

Anyone have a source for something like this? Let me send an arbitrary
outline to a machine that'll cut it out for me? Seems like an easy
enough product to find but I'm coming up with some very wild google
responses.





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Dave Hinz wrote:

So, the wife wants a "Cricut" computer controlled die cutter, for making
scrapbooking stuff. Looks cool enough, basically a X-Y plotter with a
knife instead of a pen. But, it doesn't seem to have a way to cut an
arbitrary pattern, and (of course) you have to buy each font on a
cartridge for 50 bucks each or whatever.

Anyone have a source for something like this? Let me send an arbitrary
outline to a machine that'll cut it out for me? Seems like an easy
enough product to find but I'm coming up with some very wild google
responses.


When I was looking at them on line, links to all sorts of others came
up, some seemed to have that sort of capability. The "cricut" does
seem to be trying to make all their money on the cartridges.

jk