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

Cricut, maker of a rising lineup of chopping, embossing and warmth urgent machines for residence crafters, goes all in on stickers. The brand new Cricut StickerPix Print and StickerPix Print + Minimize make it simple to print customized stickers, and, within the case of the Print + Minimize, 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 photograph paper or pre-cut sticker sheets from Cricut. The StickerPix Print + Minimize 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 photograph paper. As a result of the machine can reduce, you are additionally not restricted to the predetermined shapes of Cricut’s pre-cut sticker sheets. 

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Each the Print and the Print + Minimize 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. Different Cricut machines require the usage of an inkjet printer and particular laminate sheets to get related outcomes, which suggests in case you’re simply excited about printing photographs and stickers, the Cricut StickerPix may prevent quite a lot of area.

In contrast to Cricut’s different machines, although, each the Print and the Print + Minimize can solely make what are referred to as kiss-cut stickers that come nonetheless hooked up to a single sheet, moderately than the die-cut stickers which can be separated from their backing paper as they’re reduce. Like the entire firm’s machines, you may even have to make use of the Cricut Design Area software program in your telephone or pc to make use of both StickerPix, which suggests you may seemingly even be pushed to pay for Cricut Entry, a subscription that permits you to entry extra templates and reductions.

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