Eric, thank you! I just got a Maker 3 to do all kinds of stuff and I did not have the patience to watch all these other videos to figure out a decent workaround for the 9 x 6 print and cut restriction. I heard that you could use registration marks but no one was willing to get out of frickn’ Design Space to do it! Awesome video, keep up the great work!
IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS ALOT DUDE I HAD BOUGHT A CRICUT MAKER AND WAS DISAPOINTED ON THE SIZE THEY LET YOU CUT OUT WHEN YOU PRINT AND BOUGHT A BROTHER SCAN N CUT 2 BUT I JUST RETURNED IT BECAUSE THE SCANNER SUCKS SO BAD. NOW I CAN GET THE MOST OUT OF MY PAPERS.. THANKS AGAIN 2ND UPDATE: This stoped working for me all of a sudden , i re-taped the mat and checked the settings and the cuts still dont line up , so i just gave up and sold my maker and bought a brother scan n cut Dx with a better scanner than the previous model and its been great 👍🏼 , scans your paper and cuts objects and you can even add strokes all from the machine no computer necessary and best of all no need to be connected to the internet. UPDATE: I EXPORTED IT TO ILLUSTRATOR AND WORKS AS WELL WHEN I PRINT FROM THERE
I use this for sublimation, i have been looking for a work around for weeks, no one else has come up with this and i'm truly surprised more don't share! one other video linked back to you. Truly amazing!
I knew there had to be a way to do this through PS. I'm so grateful for you taking the time to show us, and you did a great job on explaining and easy to follow steps. I killed my printer last week trying to clean it, but once the new one comes I will be doing this in PS instead of Design Space. :)
saw your link tree checking out people selling stickers. found this video looking to print a full page of stickers on my new maker and recognized the name. instant sub like and comment. thanks man!
@@EricMBoyd So I still can't get the stickers to cut right… What brand of stickers do you use? I am thinking that it's the cricket printable vinyl with the laminate on top that is the problem and not the machines. Do you have any input on that? I've wasted so much vinyl and pulled enough hair out so any input would be appreciated
Ok so it’s 2023 and I just found your video and I just wanted to say this is an excellent video! All the other videos rush through the part on how to do the registration marks. 🎉🧠🤩
Love this! The latest Design Space (6.2.100) refuses to place the cut image in the upper corner of the mat, however. The Attach option is grayed out, and although you can move the cut image around a bit inside the Preview window, it's still extremely difficult to get a reliable placement. I'll keep at it and see if there is some sort of workaround.
I watched both videos several times. I even followed along as you made yours.(prep board as well) I honestly think it's my printer and I've tried every setting it has. I'll see if I can try a print on a friend's computer.
M J yeah I have had issues on occasion with my printer. Sometimes I need to just reset it. Loading paper would sometimes be off and prints differently than is supposed to. I also can't print from the tray and can only do rear feed or it miss aligns everything. Good luck and let me know what happens. Thanks
Thank you for going back to the print settings!!!!! This is really helpful when learning how to use a cricut machine (because this is what I wanted it for, and I didn't know it wouldn't print full pages).
This is awesome. I really needed to use my ICC profiles to print from Photoshop for my sublimation prints. It is tricky, after printing, to place the paper exactly on the mat for cutting. Design Space requires the .25 margin. DS is very frustrating!!
Thanks so much Eric for the quick reply and answering my questions. I hope you put out some more outstanding instructions for paintshop. You are a very good instructor and I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas from my family.Thanks againRichard Patrick
Same problem, but look in the print screen on photoshop, his size in the video is 8.5 in X 11, I choose the same size but photoshop change it to 10.972, I’m. It not able to change it, everything is 8.5 x 11, but the preview print in the superior part change it.
This is a great video. I had to watch 4x to "get it" as I have had a TBI. Design space isn't cutting the page right. Reg marks are down and to right. When I look at p/s it is great. When I'm put into design space I am selecting 8.5x11 0 0 on the border. It seems to be doing something funky with the border. but I can't seem to figure it out. Help me OB Wan, you're my only hope.
Are you printing borderless or centered? Make sure borderless is off. Also maybe realign the mat and retape and cut the page size. Also, make sure your paper is truly 11x8.5 sometimes it says it is and is actually larger. If the squares in the corners are cutting right then the issue could also be the printer. Hope this helps... Sorry for the slow response.
I have been trying to do this all night, following three tutorials including yours (all of them are basically the same) and I'm about two seconds from ripping my hair out and then throwing my Cricut and printer at the wall. I have calibrated my Cricut. I'm using an HP ENVY 4500 series and Photoshop. I've set it to print both bordered and borderless. My print is set to 100% and centered within Photosho's print settings like you said. My registration marks print drastically cut off (I've been printing them to try and get it lined up) regardless of where I print it or if its bordered or not. No matter what I do, my cuts are drastically off.
Great tutorials. I just can’t get any printer to print a full page without shrinking it or throwing the alignment off. I tried everything you suggested. I even took my files to Fed-Ex express and Staples to see if their printers would print larger than my ts6320 and no luck. Just about to give up and print vanilla through cricuts stupid restrictions.
so odd... are you printing borderless? and paper size is 11x8.5 inches? I have had some people over seas not in US state the paper size is different their but being you said Fedex I am assuming you are in US. Hmmm I bet we can figure it out. You have registration squares in all 4 corners?
Eric , You have the best video's.You should work for Cricut. When I called support they said this couldn't be done.I need help ...what pressure setting do you use to cut all the way through ink jet vinyl printable and not kiss cut ?
Thanks. I don't have access but I started with something like card stock. Created or copied those settings and gradually increased the pressure until it always cut through.
Hey Eric! LOVE your tutorial, though I’m facing difficulties! I’m experiencing a vertical offset (the cut is a few millimeters lower than the actual drawing) Is my only choice is to move my print a little bit higher and hope I didn’t bump it too high? Thanks!
Hi and thank you for a great tutorial and taking the time to explain every step by step for us that are new using photoshop. I was wondering is you have a tutorial on how to create a reusable template. I own a planner and would love to make make stickers thank you again!
We are a new startup t shirt company. Using heat transfer with transfer paper method. Been using scissors to cut all designs the past year. Was hoping the cricut would really make the cutting of designs more efficient. Couldn't be more disappointed than to find out you can only print on a 6.75 x 9.25 area!!!!! We have designs much bigger than that!!! Although this video is ingenious, I have to believe there is a better cutter out there for what we are doing. Any help would be great.
I have done research and there were Pro's and Cons to every cutter I can find on the market. What it came down to was the price. I was seriously disappointed with the cricut when I got it, until I realized I could do this to resolve so many of my issues. If you are doing shirts as you stated you can print and cut much larger than I show in this video. Check out this video by another youtube user who used this technique... ruclips.net/video/HvkFocQSYVU/видео.html
@@EricMBoydThanks for your ingenuity. We have decided to return the Cricut :( sadly. We were so excited. we bought this based on a video we watched comparing the Silhouette and the Cricut... very biased toward the Cricut. unfortunately we have tried many times to use your masking tape method... three times the cut was still slightly off. We do t-shirts and this type of error would be costly for us to have various cutting mistakes. Transfer paper for t-shirts isn't cheap. Good luck with the stickers!
This is a cool video thanks for this! Question, instead of choosing expand to make the white space around the image, can we use Stroke from blending options instead?
Good day, this is great info, i lost a lot on printable vinyl trying to get full size print, my Question is the size on the cricut changed and it says (for me) using 11x17" only have 9.94" x 15.94, I used your method and chose the cricut size, but the cut is off and not using the Reg. Marks. Can I tweet it and if so how? Thanks for your help 💯
Hello! I followed your instruction and its really great! thank you so much!. On the side note, I would like to ask how you put the printout in the cricut mat? do you stick stick it on the edges of the border?
Yay I'm so excited to try this with your tape method video!! Thank you so much! One question that I'm sure is a stupid question - I don't need Photoshop for anything other than this one function. Is there anything free I can use instead? I have tried with Procreate but rotating the individual stickers and duplicating them inside Procreate makes them blurry since it is (I think) pixels or something instead of vectors (I probably used the wrong words). If anyone can let me know I'd appreciate it!
I understand the concept and have been using cricut and adobe products for years. But, I'm not sure why the cut is not lining up correctly. I have a feeling it has to do with printer settings. I've tried messing with border/less printing with no luck.
So I just tried doing this same thing with my new laptop last weekend and yes I had some major issues with cuts being way off. The corner cut right but the images were off so I knew right away it was my printer. I had basic printer drivers installed but could not get it to work! I finally installed my Epson drivers and still would not work. My print screen looked different too. I found I was using some weird default windows driver and even when I thought I was choosing the right printer it was but not the right driver. I deleted my printer and readers it with the Epson drivers and now it works great! The windows printer drivers were my issue, but I would have never guessed how much it was an issue. I see why a lot of people could be having so many issues like this as no matter what I did windows printer drivers would not do what I told them.
The registration squares don’t need to be printed onto the actual sticker sheet? They only need to be on the cut file that’s uploaded in design space, correct? Like if the squares are white they won’t print on the sticker sheet. The Cricut doesn’t need physical squares just the squares on the cut file?
The cricut adds a 0.25in margin top and left (you can actually see this in the video at 8:58), so the cuts never align properly with the printout (it's always exactly 0.25in offset). Is there a way to account for this either in Cricut Design Space or with the printing?
Hi Eric...YOU ARE DA BOMB! I am new to Cricut and i have 12" cutouts i need to do and have been mad as heck for the past 6 hours. Found your post and almost fell off my chair in GLEE. Thank you! My question is...can this be done for larger than 8.5 x 11 size images? I need to do 12" tall images.
Thanks and yes you can do this for any size within the 12x24 inch mat. If you have a bigger printer or you have stuff printed larger it will work. I put a link to another RUclipsr who shows how she cut 11x17 image using the trick in the description of of one of my videos.
Excellent. I’ve been wanting to get into designing for planners and stickers, but I don’t even own a cricut. You made this look easy. Plus, I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone with such a high approval rating. Question: to add the white area, couldn’t you just use a white stroke? Also, if you wanted your stickers to peel off with no white area, could you do the reverse and have all the cut lines inside the pics?
White stroke in PS? yes, you could the only thing about that is I smooth the white space around an image to make cutting easier with no sharp angles. You are less likely to tear a page this way.
I'm a graphic designer, so I know photoshop well. I've tried this literally and it does not line up no matter how I print it. Ive even trued adjusting in Cricut but honestly think its the printing part of it. I use a iMac with os big spur ad a high quality canon printer, all the drivers are downloaded too. No matter what I do my Cricut cuts about a quarter of an inch higher then my prints. I've redone the markers in photoshop 6 times now. Adjusted the setting when printing through photoshop as well as just directly from the file to see if that would help or change anything...nothing. The cuts get higher too the further down the page. By the time its at the bottom of the age the cuts are about half an inch higher then my prints. What should I do or try? I've redone calibration too for Cricut and also redid the cut section tapped off on my mat. Thinking maybe one of those were the issue, again nothing.
@@EricMBoyd no and they are always cut off on the 8.5” side of the paper. Though I’m the preview it isn’t -‘d I know it’s the canon printer cause it prints correctly with my epson. But then by the time the print gets further away from the top left corner.. the cut moves up and to the right of the actual print. Again my calibration is perfectly set on my cricut, literally.
Get the registration marks to cut perfectly with the mat and forget about the printer for a bit. If you can get the registration marks cutting correctly with the mat and tape I would them worry about the printer. With photoshop you can do minor offsets to remedy this once the registration marks cut correctly. Also, I do recalibrate my machine and cut new page box on my mat to realign when the machine starts getting a little off. I think sometimes the motors get out of alignment and need that reset, but it happens usually after 50 pages or more. Also, sometimes if you are cutting from design space more than one page you might need to go back and resend as I have seen design space cause some issues with not resetting after cutting a few pages.
I have the exact same issue. Also using iMac and Big Sur. The registration marks cut correctly but my print is still not aligned with the cut. I’ve tried to test the scale of the print to see if I can find a solution but after 50 different tries it still won’t align. Driving me insane! Have you found a solution?
Why do we create white around the images? what if I don't want the white to be pressed on my substrate, just precise cut. Thnanks in advance, nice video.
I have never been able to get a precise cut every time. I think this is why most Stickers come with a white border even professional printers do this. I have considered adding a little more black bleed and trying to get more precise cuts. I have also heard of a Brother Scan and Cut machine that might work, but I have never had one to try and information on them is limited.
@@EricMBoyd Thank you so much for the info, so if I use circuit with this method it's better ti bleed some of the tshirt color in order to cover the white, right? Do you know how much silhouette cameo print and cut allows with the standard studio.
You could print the border and not use white, I have made shirts of my Deadpool Stitch design and they looked good on black shirts, but yeah bleeding the color of the shirt might work well too. I may have to try that. As for cameo I do not know much about that machine. When I did my research which was years ago the Cricut seamed to have the best features for my needs, it wasn't until after I purchased that I ran into the limitations on my expectations, but I spent a frustrating few months really trying to bypass those limitations. I wasted a lot material and ink doing so, but that being said it was not all the Cricuts fault my Printer was the worst culpret as its paper feed never seamed to print the same from sheet to sheet.
@@EricMBoyd okay, this is really helpful, bleeding out might just workout for me, I may use border-less printing also to get precise without bleed, that I would have to try else bleeding it also will work, thanks for the guide
Loved this video! Thank you! One question...my cricut won’t align properly so all my cuts are getting messed up. I even did the tape trick and it’s still not aligning, what would you suggest to fix this?
What is the point of registration marks if they are not scanned by the cutter? Can you do exact same steps without 4 squares? PNG file is already specified with width, height and position.
If use them to print and cut full page using my trick your Cricut method. Saves on waste of materials. Need to watch my other video to understand. Hope that helps.
I often find most issue with getting perfect alignment is the printer and paper feed. I am not sure why as I would think even the cheapest printers would have better image alignment when paper feeds. Try printing 10 cheap sheets and then stack them over each other one at a time in a window. I find if I do that you can see the inconsistencies of your printer never printing perfect each time.
Hi Eric, hope you can help me with this. I have the Cricut cutting the registration marks exactly lined up with the corners of my page so I think the calibration is good. However, the stickers themselves are off. Does this mean that the printer is the problem? Not sure how to fix this problem. I have followed the exact PS print settings like you have. Thanks!
No, but if you change the color they will sort of print with cropped-off area. I now Set my top left one to a light grey color. I print a lot of my pages in advance now and cut when needed and having that one grey one lets me know what's the top of the page.
Do you put anything on your mat to make the alignment? I have seen some people putting tape around it, but I am not sure if that is necessary. Thank you for your video!
is there any benefit to merging the two layers that now have two points each on them? I love how methodical you are in your videos its super helpful by the way!!
I do it just to control how many layers I see. When I add multiple Layers for each sticker to get as many stickers to a page I like having them on one layer. I often lock the layer so I don't accidently move anything for the registrations. I plan to make a new video soon as you only really need two registration squares, one on the top and one diagnal from that on the bottom. Thanks for the feedback I am setting up a studio in my house to make more videos as I am finding it to be a lot of fun and interacting with people has been enjoyable.
THANK YOU for this tutorial. I tried using someone else's method and my cuts are waaaayyy off. (Good thing I only practiced with printer paper and not sticker sheets.) Anyway, two questions: 1. I make all my files as SVG in AI because I thought png files degrade when printing them out, does it not matter if my stickers will be smaller - like say 3.5 " high? 2. Can I make my registration marks and sticker layout in AI (save as SVG ) and print and then resave as a PNG for DS for the "cut" part?
Hey Eric. I did everything you did and my cut was way off. In the cricut app it does ask what size your material is when you go to cut it. Is 9x12 the right choice? It may be because I don't have a full bleed printer. Hp printers suck since photos always have a border and not true to size.
I have followed this to the "T" and it still cuts off to the right... I'm a pretty techy guy and for all intent/purposes this should be working.... Cricut cuts the four squares in the corner perfectly but the cuts for the designs are always off to the right about 1/4 inch. Any suggestions?
if the cuts in the corners are right the issue is your Printer. Your printer is not printing correctly. I run into this when I use the print tray on my Epson, but if I use the Rear feed it is more accurate.
Eric any chance you have figured out a way to be able to SAVE the file when you go to print and cut? I was hoping to have my file printed by a copy center and then brought home to cut with the cricut because I wanted to print about 30 sheets.....I was hoping since you are the King of Cricut lol maybe you knew how to when you go to print is there a short cut to save as a pdf or file when on that print screen? If I was able to save it my thought process was it would always line up using the reference marks in the corners and then saving it THEN printing it at a copy center bring it back and then click on the print and cut using the exact image which I had saved as file. THANK you for alll you do your videos are awesome!
The file PNG you create for the cuts can also be the same file you have printed. The trick is you need to make sure whoever you use to print it for you know it needs to print at 100% and does not resize the page in any way. I have never had luck with this kind of thing at Staples or any local store. That being said you still may run into issues with alignment, but I have done this very thing with VistaPrint. I kind of reversed the way I worked. I ordered extra from Vistaprint and then I used some of those to work on a custom Cricut alignment. Basically, I used the tape method to find the sweet spot on the mat to place prints and that worked very well. You can always keep your registrations marks in the same spot and adjust what you are cutting in the middle by moving them slightly to match the print and re-upload the new PNG to DS. I should make a video on this process. I will add it to my list. Thanks for the kind words.
Amazing tutorial! How would you do this with kiss cut stickers that have a backing sheet? Normally with Print and cut I upload a PNG of my backing card, I then upload my sticker PNG and attach them. This then gives me a printed backing card with the kiss cut stickers on it. How would I do that this way?
Same process, just change the pressure on the cuts. I make full page kiss cut and or two half pages out of the same sheet. Works really well for smaller stickers or one or two larger ones. I don't print anything from design space. The minute you upload to design space they reduce the quality of the image.
Hey quick question.. I am making an image to iron on to a shirt. It is a white shirt so i am using avery transfer paper for light colors. How do i mirror the image in photo shop so that it print to the paper correctly?
Thank you Eric for your amazing tutorials. I have one issue with page scaling: I use Samsung laser printer, and whenever I print from Photoshop, it doesn't allow me to scale my artwork to fit the printing size to letter size, although my printer supports letter size (8.5x11"), but Photoshop shows lined area around the page indicating that it can't print to letter size. I tried to miss around with Photoshop but couldn't reach a solution. Do you have any idea on how to fix this?
I can't get my cuts to line up properly! Cricut has been calibrated 3 times so far and everything I try yields the same offset results. I have a HP Photo Envy printer, settings set to 8.5x11, center position is checked and borderless is set to "off". I've tried printing with and without a border and nothing helps. I notice that with both options my (black) registration squares don't seem to print out 100%. I'm at a loss and have wasted so much paper! Any advice, tricks?
Thank you so much. I got all the outlines on but when I took it into design space the first row cut spot on, the following rows dropped dramatically. Do you know why
might be your printer I have seen this misfeed and mess up the cuts... Could be the machine too, but sounds like a miss feed... if the registration squares cut correctly its the printer. might be a paper sizer issue too not being true 11x8.5
I know this is several years old, but this has helped me so much. This was very thorough and it worked. Thanks again.
Still always nice to hear. Thanks!
Watching in 2021, Thank you for sharing, this saves my day!
Did it work ?
Eric, thank you! I just got a Maker 3 to do all kinds of stuff and I did not have the patience to watch all these other videos to figure out a decent workaround for the 9 x 6 print and cut restriction. I heard that you could use registration marks but no one was willing to get out of frickn’ Design Space to do it! Awesome video, keep up the great work!
IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS ALOT DUDE I HAD BOUGHT A CRICUT MAKER AND WAS DISAPOINTED ON THE SIZE THEY LET YOU CUT OUT WHEN YOU PRINT AND BOUGHT A BROTHER SCAN N CUT 2 BUT I JUST RETURNED IT BECAUSE THE SCANNER SUCKS SO BAD. NOW I CAN GET THE MOST OUT OF MY PAPERS.. THANKS AGAIN
2ND UPDATE: This stoped working for me all of a sudden , i re-taped the mat and checked the settings and the cuts still dont line up , so i just gave up and sold my maker and bought a brother scan n cut Dx with a better scanner than the previous model and its been great 👍🏼 , scans your paper and cuts objects and you can even add strokes all from the machine no computer necessary and best of all no need to be connected to the internet.
UPDATE: I EXPORTED IT TO ILLUSTRATOR AND WORKS AS WELL WHEN I PRINT FROM THERE
I use this for sublimation, i have been looking for a work around for weeks, no one else has come up with this and i'm truly surprised more don't share! one other video linked back to you. Truly amazing!
Thanks. Yeah I use this for more than stickers and magnets sublimation would be great too!
I knew there had to be a way to do this through PS. I'm so grateful for you taking the time to show us, and you did a great job on explaining and easy to follow steps. I killed my printer last week trying to clean it, but once the new one comes I will be doing this in PS instead of Design Space. :)
I can't even explain how helpful this was..thank you so so much!!
Thank you. Your welcome.
saw your link tree checking out people selling stickers. found this video looking to print a full page of stickers on my new maker and recognized the name. instant sub like and comment. thanks man!
Thanks!
@@EricMBoyd So I still can't get the stickers to cut right… What brand of stickers do you use? I am thinking that it's the cricket printable vinyl with the laminate on top that is the problem and not the machines. Do you have any input on that? I've wasted so much vinyl and pulled enough hair out so any input would be appreciated
@@StoreRunDotCom are you using the Design Space Print cut feature with the black border scan and cut option?
I think this solves the problem that I've been having. Thanks man!
Thank you so much for sharing this I went down a rabbit hole before I finally came across your video.
Ok so it’s 2023 and I just found your video and I just wanted to say this is an excellent video! All the other videos rush through the part on how to do the registration marks.
🎉🧠🤩
Love this! The latest Design Space (6.2.100) refuses to place the cut image in the upper corner of the mat, however. The Attach option is grayed out, and although you can move the cut image around a bit inside the Preview window, it's still extremely difficult to get a reliable placement. I'll keep at it and see if there is some sort of workaround.
Did you find a solution?
@@johnafunayala5657 Unfortunately not yet. Cricut makes great machines but Design Space is a serious pain in the ass.
Same issue here. Very annoying!!
This man deserves more subs! Thank you so much for the help m8!
Thanks
Thank you Eric! So generous of you to show us how to do this!
Thank you for making this! I didn't know you could trick the Cricut. NO more waste!
Your welcome. Thanks for posting.
I'm having trouble getting my print and cut to line up. I have CS3. Any tips?
Did you prep the mat? Did you watch this video? ruclips.net/video/xk33hSpLG9c/видео.html
I watched both videos several times. I even followed along as you made yours.(prep board as well) I honestly think it's my printer and I've tried every setting it has. I'll see if I can try a print on a friend's computer.
M J yeah I have had issues on occasion with my printer. Sometimes I need to just reset it. Loading paper would sometimes be off and prints differently than is supposed to. I also can't print from the tray and can only do rear feed or it miss aligns everything. Good luck and let me know what happens. Thanks
Terrific tutorial! Thank you!
Thanks
Thank you for going back to the print settings!!!!! This is really helpful when learning how to use a cricut machine (because this is what I wanted it for, and I didn't know it wouldn't print full pages).
just type in or px after the numbers.
Thank you for sharing! It worked great and your instructions were easy to follow.
Welcome, thank you.
just FYI (this is a dope tutorial, thank you) you can duplicate layers by pressing command+J
Thanks! I love shortcut commands, but people don't like them when you are teaching. They want/need to see where you click for it.
You just made my life so much easier, ty!!!!
This is awesome. I really needed to use my ICC profiles to print from Photoshop for my sublimation prints. It is tricky, after printing, to place the paper exactly on the mat for cutting. Design Space requires the .25 margin. DS is very frustrating!!
Thank you Eric. Your video is very helpful and clear. You answered my questions completely.😊
THANK YOU FOR THE DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS MY MANNNN
Thanks
Thank you! Best one out there!
Thanks so much Eric for the quick reply and answering my questions. I hope you put out some more outstanding instructions for paintshop. You are a very good instructor and I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas from my family.Thanks againRichard Patrick
u are the BOMB!, GREAT JOB, FINALLY SOMEONE SHOWING TO DO IT THIS WAY.
This was so helpful!!! Thank you!
Hi can you make an updated tutorial on how to aline the sheet onto the matt? My cricut is not cutting the sticker correctly :/
Yeah, mine won’t align in the corner when I click make it...
Are registration squares cutting correctly to the mat? If so it’s a printer issue
Eric M Boyd hi the registration marks ahape has changed to a complete square will this still work
Same problem, but look in the print screen on photoshop, his size in the video is 8.5 in X 11, I choose the same size but photoshop change it to 10.972, I’m. It not able to change it, everything is 8.5 x 11, but the preview print in the superior part change it.
Thank You Eric !!!!!!
This is a great video. I had to watch 4x to "get it" as I have had a TBI. Design space isn't cutting the page right. Reg marks are down and to right. When I look at p/s it is great. When I'm put into design space I am selecting 8.5x11 0 0 on the border. It seems to be doing something funky with the border. but I can't seem to figure it out. Help me OB Wan, you're my only hope.
Are you printing borderless or centered? Make sure borderless is off. Also maybe realign the mat and retape and cut the page size. Also, make sure your paper is truly 11x8.5 sometimes it says it is and is actually larger. If the squares in the corners are cutting right then the issue could also be the printer. Hope this helps... Sorry for the slow response.
Thank you 😊
Upload more cricut videos!!!!! Great video!!
Really useful. Thank you!
Welcome
Thank you again
Awesome tutorial!
Thanks so much.
I have been trying to do this all night, following three tutorials including yours (all of them are basically the same) and I'm about two seconds from ripping my hair out and then throwing my Cricut and printer at the wall. I have calibrated my Cricut. I'm using an HP ENVY 4500 series and Photoshop. I've set it to print both bordered and borderless. My print is set to 100% and centered within Photosho's print settings like you said. My registration marks print drastically cut off (I've been printing them to try and get it lined up) regardless of where I print it or if its bordered or not. No matter what I do, my cuts are drastically off.
Printing registration is pointless. Are your registration squares cutting correctly in the corners of the tape?
@@EricMBoyd No, they get cut out way off (down and to the right) even though I put the cut at zero zero before I hit Make.
Your registration marks are cutting into the tape?
@@EricMBoyd No, not that far off but they aren't in the corners like they should be
@ACWN Wow.....I just wrote almost the exact same comment on another video! I'm having the exact problem as you! Did you ever figure it out?
you can just click FX on the bottom right in that layers window and click stroke to add a white outline
so glad i found this page! I have elements, for some reason i'm having trouble with the registration marks and offset....can you help?
Bro this was such a life saver ! thank you for the upload!
Really easy to understand. Thank you for your tutorial!
Thank you!!!! Thank you!!!! Thank you!!!!!! Best tutorial this far!!! Thank you!!!
Great tutorials. I just can’t get any printer to print a full page without shrinking it or throwing the alignment off. I tried everything you suggested. I even took my files to Fed-Ex express and Staples to see if their printers would print larger than my ts6320 and no luck. Just about to give up and print vanilla through cricuts stupid restrictions.
so odd... are you printing borderless? and paper size is 11x8.5 inches? I have had some people over seas not in US state the paper size is different their but being you said Fedex I am assuming you are in US. Hmmm I bet we can figure it out. You have registration squares in all 4 corners?
Thanks this is awesome!!!
Thank you very much for the awesome tutorial. 😭😭😭😂
super helpful
Awesome info
What a life saver! Thank you so much, your explanations helps me a lot and easy to understand, good job! 👏✨
Welcome, thanks for watching.
Eric , You have the best video's.You should work for Cricut. When I called support they said this couldn't be done.I need help ...what pressure setting do you use to cut all the way through ink jet vinyl printable and not kiss cut ?
Thanks. I don't have access but I started with something like card stock. Created or copied those settings and gradually increased the pressure until it always cut through.
Thank you for your video. Is it possible to do this in procreate?
I have not tried as I no longer have an iPad, but I imagine it would be possible.
Hey Eric! LOVE your tutorial, though I’m facing difficulties! I’m experiencing a vertical offset (the cut is a few millimeters lower than the actual drawing) Is my only choice is to move my print a little bit higher and hope I didn’t bump it too high? Thanks!
If the registration squares are cutting correctly the issue is your printer.
Hi and thank you for a great tutorial and taking the time to explain every step by step for us that are new using photoshop. I was wondering is you have a tutorial on how to create a reusable template. I own a planner and would love to make make stickers thank you again!
Sorry I am not quite understanding the question
TFS!!! I'm off to try this. I'm not understanding why people are taping their whole mats and cutting out a rectangle?
Not the whole mat. It’s find perfect alignment with the 0,0 of your machine. Placement of the paper to cut printed sheets full page with no waste.
@@EricMBoyd thanks again! Not one video I watched mentioned WHY 🤣 I get it now 🙌🏽 grazie 🙌🏽
We are a new startup t shirt company. Using heat transfer with transfer paper method. Been using scissors to cut all designs the past year. Was hoping the cricut would really make the cutting of designs more efficient. Couldn't be more disappointed than to find out you can only print on a 6.75 x 9.25 area!!!!! We have designs much bigger than that!!! Although this video is ingenious, I have to believe there is a better cutter out there for what we are doing. Any help would be great.
I have done research and there were Pro's and Cons to every cutter I can find on the market. What it came down to was the price. I was seriously disappointed with the cricut when I got it, until I realized I could do this to resolve so many of my issues. If you are doing shirts as you stated you can print and cut much larger than I show in this video. Check out this video by another youtube user who used this technique... ruclips.net/video/HvkFocQSYVU/видео.html
@@EricMBoydThanks for your ingenuity. We have decided to return the Cricut :( sadly. We were so excited. we bought this based on a video we watched comparing the Silhouette and the Cricut... very biased toward the Cricut. unfortunately we have tried many times to use your masking tape method... three times the cut was still slightly off. We do t-shirts and this type of error would be costly for us to have various cutting mistakes. Transfer paper for t-shirts isn't cheap. Good luck with the stickers!
Thank you so much for the info! Would there be a way to do this in inkscape?
yes, check my other videos.
@@EricMBoyd Thank you
This is a cool video thanks for this! Question, instead of choosing expand to make the white space around the image, can we use Stroke from blending options instead?
I have the same question. Do we know if it's been answered?
Yes you can. I just made successful sticker using stroke in Photoshop
Good day, this is great info, i lost a lot on printable vinyl trying to get full size print, my Question is the size on the cricut changed and it says (for me) using 11x17" only have 9.94" x 15.94, I used your method and chose the cricut size, but the cut is off and not using the Reg. Marks. Can I tweet it and if so how? Thanks for your help 💯
Hello! I followed your instruction and its really great! thank you so much!. On the side note, I would like to ask how you put the printout in the cricut mat? do you stick stick it on the edges of the border?
Excellent thank you
Smart !
Yay I'm so excited to try this with your tape method video!! Thank you so much!
One question that I'm sure is a stupid question - I don't need Photoshop for anything other than this one function. Is there anything free I can use instead? I have tried with Procreate but rotating the individual stickers and duplicating them inside Procreate makes them blurry since it is (I think) pixels or something instead of vectors (I probably used the wrong words). If anyone can let me know I'd appreciate it!
You can use just about any image layout software.
@@EricMBoyd Thanks for replying!
THANK YOU
The picture and the outline is not joining together... What can I do?
I understand the concept and have been using cricut and adobe products for years. But, I'm not sure why the cut is not lining up correctly. I have a feeling it has to do with printer settings. I've tried messing with border/less printing with no luck.
So I just tried doing this same thing with my new laptop last weekend and yes I had some major issues with cuts being way off. The corner cut right but the images were off so I knew right away it was my printer. I had basic printer drivers installed but could not get it to work! I finally installed my Epson drivers and still would not work. My print screen looked different too. I found I was using some weird default windows driver and even when I thought I was choosing the right printer it was but not the right driver. I deleted my printer and readers it with the Epson drivers and now it works great! The windows printer drivers were my issue, but I would have never guessed how much it was an issue. I see why a lot of people could be having so many issues like this as no matter what I did windows printer drivers would not do what I told them.
The registration squares don’t need to be printed onto the actual sticker sheet? They only need to be on the cut file that’s uploaded in design space, correct?
Like if the squares are white they won’t print on the sticker sheet. The Cricut doesn’t need physical squares just the squares on the cut file?
This is great, thank you so much!, but I have one question, when I hit cut, it cut an inch to the right, how do I get it to cut correctly?
Did you watch the trick your cricut video?
The cricut adds a 0.25in margin top and left (you can actually see this in the video at 8:58), so the cuts never align properly with the printout (it's always exactly 0.25in offset). Is there a way to account for this either in Cricut Design Space or with the printing?
That’s why I tape the mat
Hi Eric...YOU ARE DA BOMB! I am new to Cricut and i have 12" cutouts i need to do and have been mad as heck for the past 6 hours. Found your post and almost fell off my chair in GLEE. Thank you! My question is...can this be done for larger than 8.5 x 11 size images? I need to do 12" tall images.
Thanks and yes you can do this for any size within the 12x24 inch mat. If you have a bigger printer or you have stuff printed larger it will work. I put a link to another RUclipsr who shows how she cut 11x17 image using the trick in the description of of one of my videos.
@@EricMBoyd Thank you so very much Eric. So very much appreciate your reply. Be well, stay safe and keep creating amazing stuff.
awesome video man, id love to see more where you make the stickers as well! great stuff!
Thanks! You mean these? ruclips.net/channel/UCf3wkL-X_8cPJUWATX6Pj7w
Excellent. I’ve been wanting to get into designing for planners and stickers, but I don’t even own a cricut. You made this look easy. Plus, I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone with such a high approval rating. Question: to add the white area, couldn’t you just use a white stroke? Also, if you wanted your stickers to peel off with no white area, could you do the reverse and have all the cut lines inside the pics?
White stroke in PS? yes, you could the only thing about that is I smooth the white space around an image to make cutting easier with no sharp angles. You are less likely to tear a page this way.
Can I make registration marks using the rregangle tool??
Thanks .. But I have a question .. how i can Cut Outlines for Cricut Full Page size A3 in photoshop
I'm a graphic designer, so I know photoshop well. I've tried this literally and it does not line up no matter how I print it. Ive even trued adjusting in Cricut but honestly think its the printing part of it. I use a iMac with os big spur ad a high quality canon printer, all the drivers are downloaded too. No matter what I do my Cricut cuts about a quarter of an inch higher then my prints. I've redone the markers in photoshop 6 times now. Adjusted the setting when printing through photoshop as well as just directly from the file to see if that would help or change anything...nothing. The cuts get higher too the further down the page. By the time its at the bottom of the age the cuts are about half an inch higher then my prints. What should I do or try?
I've redone calibration too for Cricut and also redid the cut section tapped off on my mat. Thinking maybe one of those were the issue, again nothing.
Do the registration squares cut correctly with the taped mat?
@@EricMBoyd no and they are always cut off on the 8.5” side of the paper. Though I’m the preview it isn’t -‘d I know it’s the canon printer cause it prints correctly with my epson. But then by the time the print gets further away from the top left corner.. the cut moves up and to the right of the actual print. Again my calibration is perfectly set on my cricut, literally.
Get the registration marks to cut perfectly with the mat and forget about the printer for a bit. If you can get the registration marks cutting correctly with the mat and tape I would them worry about the printer. With photoshop you can do minor offsets to remedy this once the registration marks cut correctly. Also, I do recalibrate my machine and cut new page box on my mat to realign when the machine starts getting a little off. I think sometimes the motors get out of alignment and need that reset, but it happens usually after 50 pages or more. Also, sometimes if you are cutting from design space more than one page you might need to go back and resend as I have seen design space cause some issues with not resetting after cutting a few pages.
I have the exact same issue. Also using iMac and Big Sur. The registration marks cut correctly but my print is still not aligned with the cut.
I’ve tried to test the scale of the print to see if I can find a solution but after 50 different tries it still won’t align.
Driving me insane! Have you found a solution?
you are the best!!!!
Well done bud. Can you send me a link of thus program to download on to my PC. Thank buddy.
What program? Photoshop?
Why do we create white around the images? what if I don't want the white to be pressed on my substrate, just precise cut.
Thnanks in advance, nice video.
I have never been able to get a precise cut every time. I think this is why most Stickers come with a white border even professional printers do this. I have considered adding a little more black bleed and trying to get more precise cuts. I have also heard of a Brother Scan and Cut machine that might work, but I have never had one to try and information on them is limited.
@@EricMBoyd Thank you so much for the info, so if I use circuit with this method it's better ti bleed some of the tshirt color in order to cover the white, right? Do you know how much silhouette cameo print and cut allows with the standard studio.
You could print the border and not use white, I have made shirts of my Deadpool Stitch design and they looked good on black shirts, but yeah bleeding the color of the shirt might work well too. I may have to try that. As for cameo I do not know much about that machine. When I did my research which was years ago the Cricut seamed to have the best features for my needs, it wasn't until after I purchased that I ran into the limitations on my expectations, but I spent a frustrating few months really trying to bypass those limitations. I wasted a lot material and ink doing so, but that being said it was not all the Cricuts fault my Printer was the worst culpret as its paper feed never seamed to print the same from sheet to sheet.
@@EricMBoyd okay, this is really helpful, bleeding out might just workout for me, I may use border-less printing also to get precise without bleed, that I would have to try else bleeding it also will work,
thanks for the guide
Loved this video! Thank you! One question...my cricut won’t align properly so all my cuts are getting messed up. I even did the tape trick and it’s still not aligning, what would you suggest to fix this?
Do the 4 squares cut in the corner of the tape correctly?
Eric M Boyd they’re supposed to cut on the tape rather than the paper?
@@chereisequintana8409 No, they should be on the paper and in the corners of the tape.
What is the point of registration marks if they are not scanned by the cutter? Can you do exact same steps without 4 squares? PNG file is already specified with width, height and position.
If use them to print and cut full page using my trick your Cricut method. Saves on waste of materials. Need to watch my other video to understand. Hope that helps.
When I enter 0 for X and Y position it automatically changes to 0.028 I try to change back it won't will this affect it?
Mine does that sometimes, but it still works.
I've never gotten the alignment correct. But it is only off by like 1mm. Is that the best that I can get? Thank you.
I often find most issue with getting perfect alignment is the printer and paper feed. I am not sure why as I would think even the cheapest printers would have better image alignment when paper feeds. Try printing 10 cheap sheets and then stack them over each other one at a time in a window. I find if I do that you can see the inconsistencies of your printer never printing perfect each time.
Hi Eric, hope you can help me with this. I have the Cricut cutting the registration marks exactly lined up with the corners of my page so I think the calibration is good. However, the stickers themselves are off. Does this mean that the printer is the problem? Not sure how to fix this problem. I have followed the exact PS print settings like you have. Thanks!
It sounds like the printer is off yes, but it may just be a print setting issue.
Great video! Very informative. I wanted to know what setting do you set your circuit on when printing on a full sheet of label paper?
for cutting strait through the material? I use a heave cardstock setting with more pressure.
Hi Eric! You are amazing! Are you designing your own images or getting them from somewhere?
Thanks, all my own art.
When printing is the alignment marks suposot to show?
Because I can't seem to get it to cut correctly at all
No, but if you change the color they will sort of print with cropped-off area. I now Set my top left one to a light grey color. I print a lot of my pages in advance now and cut when needed and having that one grey one lets me know what's the top of the page.
Are the borders supposed to be out of the image when printed?
They are used with my trick the cricut hack that allows full page print and cut... only limitations printer size and mat size.
How did you make the background black with one click?
Alt+Backspace or CTRL + Backspace will fill layer foreground or background color.
Do you put anything on your mat to make the alignment? I have seen some people putting tape around it, but I am not sure if that is necessary. Thank you for your video!
Yes, look at my other videos... I outline how to do this with a taped mat.
is there any benefit to merging the two layers that now have two points each on them? I love how methodical you are in your videos its super helpful by the way!!
I do it just to control how many layers I see. When I add multiple Layers for each sticker to get as many stickers to a page I like having them on one layer. I often lock the layer so I don't accidently move anything for the registrations. I plan to make a new video soon as you only really need two registration squares, one on the top and one diagnal from that on the bottom. Thanks for the feedback I am setting up a studio in my house to make more videos as I am finding it to be a lot of fun and interacting with people has been enjoyable.
THANK YOU for this tutorial. I tried using someone else's method and my cuts are waaaayyy off. (Good thing I only practiced with printer paper and not sticker sheets.) Anyway, two questions: 1. I make all my files as SVG in AI because I thought png files degrade when printing them out, does it not matter if my stickers will be smaller - like say 3.5 " high? 2. Can I make my registration marks and sticker layout in AI (save as SVG ) and print and then resave as a PNG for DS for the "cut" part?
Hey Eric. I did everything you did and my cut was way off. In the cricut app it does ask what size your material is when you go to cut it. Is 9x12 the right choice? It may be because I don't have a full bleed printer. Hp printers suck since photos always have a border and not true to size.
9x12? needs to be US Standard 11x8.5 if that is how you are printing. I would say measure your paper and adjust for the correct paper size.
so you print the colored ones from photo shop and upload the solid black ones to cricut
and cut the black one ?then do what ?
when you select the marquee tool and change your style to fixed size how do you pick inch sizing because mine says pixels instead of inches...
nvm I figured it out right after asking this xD
I have followed this to the "T" and it still cuts off to the right... I'm a pretty techy guy and for all intent/purposes this should be working.... Cricut cuts the four squares in the corner perfectly but the cuts for the designs are always off to the right about 1/4 inch. Any suggestions?
if the cuts in the corners are right the issue is your Printer. Your printer is not printing correctly. I run into this when I use the print tray on my Epson, but if I use the Rear feed it is more accurate.
Eric any chance you have figured out a way to be able to SAVE the file when you go to print and cut? I was hoping to have my file printed by a copy center and then brought home to cut with the cricut because I wanted to print about 30 sheets.....I was hoping since you are the King of Cricut lol maybe you knew how to when you go to print is there a short cut to save as a pdf or file when on that print screen? If I was able to save it my thought process was it would always line up using the reference marks in the corners and then saving it THEN printing it at a copy center bring it back and then click on the print and cut using the exact image which I had saved as file. THANK you for alll you do your videos are awesome!
The file PNG you create for the cuts can also be the same file you have printed. The trick is you need to make sure whoever you use to print it for you know it needs to print at 100% and does not resize the page in any way. I have never had luck with this kind of thing at Staples or any local store. That being said you still may run into issues with alignment, but I have done this very thing with VistaPrint. I kind of reversed the way I worked. I ordered extra from Vistaprint and then I used some of those to work on a custom Cricut alignment. Basically, I used the tape method to find the sweet spot on the mat to place prints and that worked very well. You can always keep your registrations marks in the same spot and adjust what you are cutting in the middle by moving them slightly to match the print and re-upload the new PNG to DS. I should make a video on this process. I will add it to my list. Thanks for the kind words.
Amazing tutorial! How would you do this with kiss cut stickers that have a backing sheet? Normally with Print and cut I upload a PNG of my backing card, I then upload my sticker PNG and attach them. This then gives me a printed backing card with the kiss cut stickers on it. How would I do that this way?
Same process, just change the pressure on the cuts. I make full page kiss cut and or two half pages out of the same sheet. Works really well for smaller stickers or one or two larger ones. I don't print anything from design space. The minute you upload to design space they reduce the quality of the image.
Not sure if it has been mentioned already, I apologize if it has, but ctrl + j duplicates layers
Can you help me to bypass cuyi mini cutter plotter.
Hey quick question.. I am making an image to iron on to a shirt. It is a white shirt so i am using avery transfer paper for light colors. How do i mirror the image in photo shop so that it print to the paper correctly?
Edit>Transform and Flip Horizontal for layers, or you can flip the entire canvas.
Thank you Eric for your amazing tutorials. I have one issue with page scaling: I use Samsung laser printer, and whenever I print from Photoshop, it doesn't allow me to scale my artwork to fit the printing size to letter size, although my printer supports letter size (8.5x11"), but Photoshop shows lined area around the page indicating that it can't print to letter size. I tried to miss around with Photoshop but couldn't reach a solution. Do you have any idea on how to fix this?
I am not sure I would assume it is a setting in printer, but those settings usually show in PS print settings.
you know your picture has to be inside the register mark, can't be over it.
I can't get my cuts to line up properly! Cricut has been calibrated 3 times so far and everything I try yields the same offset results. I have a HP Photo Envy printer, settings set to 8.5x11, center position is checked and borderless is set to "off". I've tried printing with and without a border and nothing helps. I notice that with both options my (black) registration squares don't seem to print out 100%. I'm at a loss and have wasted so much paper! Any advice, tricks?
Thank you so much. I got all the outlines on but when I took it into design space the first row cut spot on, the following rows dropped dramatically. Do you know why
might be your printer I have seen this misfeed and mess up the cuts... Could be the machine too, but sounds like a miss feed... if the registration squares cut correctly its the printer. might be a paper sizer issue too not being true 11x8.5