#table top vinyl cutter

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wraith yoke
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Hi looking for this machine for beginners. Can you show yours and help me to enter this area?

vocal wraith
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Hello 🙂

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I got into this stuff a few months ago, for the table-top stuff it basically comes down to 2 big players Silhouette and Cricut.

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Cricut has 2 main flavours of machine, the 'Joy' which is the scrapbooking/toy model and the larger (12" max width) Explorer/Maker line

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Silhouette also has 2 main types, the 'Portrat 3' which is the mobile version, does up to Letter size paper. The larger/pro lineup is the Cameo 4 (12" width) and it's variants 'Plus' (15" width), and 'Pro' (24" width)

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Both companies have most of the same capability with materials and tools, the real difference is in the software that drives things.

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Cricut uses a web-based software suite, if you loose internet connectivity the machines are bricked until the connection is restored.

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Silhouette used older style local software, not quite as intuitive to use but solid

dull cove
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While Cricut seems to still be the more popular option they have already tried to make their software into a subscription you'd have to continually pay for. They reversed that decision but I wouldn't put it past them to try again.