Sunday, September 1, 2013

Getting To Know Cricut Cartridges

Getting To Know Cricut Cartridges

By Bianca Dean


Cricut cartridges are placed inside the Cricut cutter machine and enable the machine to shape the design depending on the users' preference on the design. They are also considered as the heart of the Cricut cutting machine. It is good to know that various cartridges are available to be purchased anywhere but it is also important to know that not all types of cartridges are compatible and can work with any type of machines. One good example is the Cricut cartridge which is only compatible and can only work with Cricut machines. Many artist and crafters were able to create and make different artistic designs with the help of Cricut cartridges and Cricut machines.

With the advancements in technology nowadays, the printing technology was able to present cartridges of different range and it offers much more bundles to select from compared to the previous ones. But despite all these, there are only two basic categories for printer cartridges. The two basin categories for printer cartridges are the laser cartridges that are used in laser printers and the ink-jet cartridges that are used in ink-jet printers. Cricut machines utilize no other type of printer but the ink-jet printer.

The only available Cricut ink cartridge before is in Black color. Eventually some other colors are known. Cricut machine becomes increasingly popular nowadays because for their capacity to use different unique types of cartridges that offers users the chance to use their creativity and skills in cutting various styles, patterns, colors, designs and fonts.

Below are some general categories of the Cricut cartridges:

-Font Cartridge which contains complete numbers, alphabets and other symbols including font coordinating shapes and font types. Jasmine, Teardrop, Forever Young, Lyrical letters, Pumpkin Carving for Halloween, Winter Wonderland for the Christmas season, Thanksgiving Holiday and many others are some of the seasonal and popular all-year round cartridges.

-The cartridge that contains different shapes such as animals, sports, paper dolls, bags, tags, boxes and many others are known as the Shape Cartridge.

-A type of cartridge that enables users to cut designs that include popular and famous characters like Pixar Toy Story, Disney's Mickey Mouse and Hello Kitty is known as the Licensed Cartridge.

- Another type of cartridge includes these features: classroom shapes, fonts, visual study plan, classroom design, sayings and ideas of teachers and others. This type of cartridge is known as the Classmate cartridge and is especially designed to cater the different designs for the classroom and other classroom purposes.

-Priced less compared to other types of cartridges and contains features like Campout, soccer, Wedding, baseball, etc is the Solutions cartridge.

-The Wildcard cartridge is one of the best choices of Cricut cartridge that is recommended to be purchased because of the versatility and diversity of the designs that it offers to its users and are used in many various occasions and celebrations. The Wildcard cartridge includes feature like champagne bottles, baby prams, candles, birthday cakes, balloons and many others.

-Slumber Party Lite cartridge is one of the newest entries from the Cricut Lite range of cartridges. This type of Cricut cartridge produces images and designs that are enjoyed by most girls who enjoys and have fun in the popular slumber party. This cartridge include various girls sleep clothing items, mobile phones, TVs, party hats, cupcakes, make up items and hearts.




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