Cricut’s New DIY Machines Let You Print And Cut Your Personal Stickers

Cricut, maker of a rising lineup of chopping, embossing and warmth urgent machines for dwelling crafters, is going all in on stickers. The new Cricut StickerPix Print and StickerPix Print + Cut make it simple to print customized stickers, and, within the case of the Print + Cut, mix the corporate’s chopping tech with a printer for the primary time.

The Cricut StickerPix Print is the smaller of the 2 machines at 7.8 x 5 x 3.5 inches, and is able to printing on 4 x 6-inch picture paper or pre-cut sticker sheets from Cricut. The StickerPix Print + Cut is bigger at 8 x 11.3 x 4.1 inches and might work with 4 x 7-inch sticker sheets and 4 x 6-inch picture paper. Because the machine can reduce, you are additionally not restricted to the predetermined shapes of Cricut’s pre-cut sticker sheets. 

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Both the Print and the Print + Cut use dye-sublimation to print photographs and stickers, which suggests they apply warmth to switch dye immediately onto no matter materials you are printing on. They then add a laminate layer that makes your prints water, scratch and fade-resistant. Other Cricut machines require using an inkjet printer and particular laminate sheets to get comparable outcomes, which suggests if you happen to’re simply taken with printing photographs and stickers, the Cricut StickerPix may prevent a variety of area.

Unlike Cricut’s other machines, although, each the Print and the Print + Cut can solely make what are known as kiss-cut stickers that come nonetheless connected to a single sheet, fairly than the die-cut stickers which can be separated from their backing paper as they’re reduce. Like the entire firm’s machines, you will even have to make use of the Cricut Design Space software program in your telephone or pc to make use of both StickerPix, which suggests you will doubtless even be pushed to pay for Cricut Access, a subscription that allows you to entry extra templates and reductions.

The Cricut StickerPix Print and Print + Cut machines can be found now, beginning at $169 and $299, respectively. Both machines come bundled with sticker sheets, picture paper and an ink cartridge.