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Are you the lucky owner of a Cricut brand plotter? You probably already have many plans and interesting projects to make with it. However, before you start creating you need to get the necessary materials and accessories. So it looks like you still have a few important choices ahead of you. One of them will be to choose the right blade.

Cricut - which blade to choose?

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Choosing the right craft plotter for many of us involves many hours of comparing available options. But let's assume that your decision has fallen on a plotter from the Silhouette brand and you are only separated from starting work with your dream machine by choosing the right materials and accessories - including the right blade. It is about blades that I want to talk a little more today. If you are wondering which blade to choose, this article is just for you.

Silhouette - which blade to choose?

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How to create your own layered sticker using adhesive paper and a cutting plotter? For those who have no problems with this, I have prepared a free flower pot pattern in Studio format for download. And for those who have not yet tried to make a similar design, I have additionally prepared step-by-step instructions on how to cut it out and then stick it on the surface of your choice.

First cut with Silhouette Cameo 4 plotter

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Correct cutting settings are very important to ensure that the pattern is cut accurately. However, selecting them may seem hard at first. Check out our tips and see that it's not that difficult!

Silhouette cutting settings

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Sawgrass printers are the first dedicated sublimation equipment on the market. And what is sublimation itself and why is it worth investing in a printer dedicated specifically to this method? I will try to explain it in a moment.

Sawgrass sublimation printers

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Until recently, we specialized in selling knife plotters from many manufacturers. These were craft as well as professional machines, created to cut paper, film and other thin materials, and offering several additional functions like gilding, cutting prints or sketching. Over time, however, more and more questions began to arise about machines that could handle bigger challenges, such as cutting plywood, plexiglass and other hard and thick materials.

CO2 or diode plotter? That is, how to choose the right device

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To cut with a cutting plotter we need patterns created with vector graphics. This type of simple graphics can be made in plotter programs such as Cricut Design Space or Silhouette Studio. More complicated patterns can be created in the free program Inkscape or paid ones like Adobe Illustrator, Corel DRAW or Affinity. However, what to do if you only have raster graphics? One possibility is vectorization, which I'll talk about shortly.

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