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Posted by Dave Hinz on March 11, 2008, 9:40 pm
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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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Posted by Gerald Miller on March 11, 2008, 9:56 pm
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>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
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Posted by Winston on March 11, 2008, 10:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options 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/products/cutters/stika/default.asp
--Winston
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Posted by Martin H. Eastburn on March 11, 2008, 11:33 pm
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Martin
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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.
>
>
>
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Posted by jk on March 11, 2008, 11:52 pm
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>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
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>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.
>
>