Go check out Leigh’s video. She is using her own border idea instead of taped mat and larger than 8.5x11 paper. ruclips.net/video/nF8KUeQ2pEw/видео.html also go ahead and click that subscribe button for her.
@@arie9280 are you referring to the scan cut feature? If so the scanner doesn't scan glossy paper.... that is another reason I created the trick your cricut hack. I could never get the cricut design space feature to scan glossy materials.
Well I'll be damned!!! This video is 6 years old. I feel embarrassed by just now finding your videos. Also according to the comments you are the holy grail and the goat! Thanks for sharing❤
The cold press laminating trick is the real MVP here. This is probably the most helpful and complete video on how to make high quality die cut waterproof stickers I've seen. THANK YOU.
I know this is three years old, but it's just a brilliant tutorial. Thank you for Cricut cheat. It's 'cutting corners really', thank you again. Carole, London UK
I was reading the comments and thinking "there's no way this video is that great..." but then holy moly this tutorial is GOLD, great video with perfect explanations. You're an incredible person.
Thank You! I only wish I had better filming equipment back then to make the video better. I always planned to refilm this tutorial, but have never gotten around to doing so.
This is by far the best cricut hack video out there! I am so thankful for the time you put in to give us step by step instructions. The tips along the way were extremely helpful! Thanks again Eric! 2 years later and we are still discovering your wealth of knowledge!
Praise be to thee, oh Master of ye Cricut. Thanks to you, I can finally cut images that I printed with Photoshop on an A4 piece of paper. If you consider 99% of the world use this format of paper, you are nothing but a superhero! Thank you, so much!
OMG I have watched so many videos in the last 48 hours on How to do this and either no one truly understands FULL Sheet or they just don't know what they are doing. THANK YOU!!! I Wish I would have found you before all the Noise! This is Perfect!! You are a Great Teacher!!
Fantastic tutorial!!! Got my Cricut yesterday and my expectations at using print and cut option were definitely not met. I could not calibrate it because it always prints the wrong size. With your tutorial I finally managed to make first stickers sheet. Still need practice but you helped so much. Thank you!!!
Whaaaat.... do you know how many times I've messed up a project because i had to take the mat out? You're a genius. I've watched millions of cricut vids over the years and not once did anyone ever do anything in this video.
Correct, big black box is not needed. That is why I made this video.... I needed a way to make more professional products to sell than what Design space and the Cricut would allow. When I made the investiment I was very unhappy with the size restrictions and the face that Design space would turn my art into a printed low-quality mess. I developed this method to circumvent that entire issue. Now I get full quality prints on glossy paper where I can laminate and make look more professional looking. I also now use the full page. This is important as one of my biggest sellers is Die Cut magnets and I hated wasting half a sheet of magnet paper every time I used Design space to print and cut. Now i print from photoshop and use design space to only cut.
Vanessa Aguilera you have didn't machine names in your description. Which one are you using in this video and which one is best. Also what is the name and use of the last machine in your video that you look like your using to flatten or gloss the stickers with?
I came back here to tell you thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This video saved me so much material. I can't like the video a million times or I would.
Bro, you held my attention for over 30 minutes, congratulations! Thanks for the tutorial. I'm in the beginning research stages of starting my own decals service and I'm shopping for a good vinyl cutter.
Awesome tutorial! I’m an original Cricut user (remember the cartridge days?) and you just proved that one can always learn a trick or two from geniuses like you! Thanks Eric!
I just recently bought a Cricut maker, and spent a frustrating day trying to match cuts to the printed image. I wish I’d watched this video first!. This is by far the most useful information I’ve seen about the Cricut. Thank you ever so much!
I realize this is an older video, but thought I'd make a note for anyone else struggling like I was. My printer automatically adds a margin. Unlike this video, the software won't let me dismiss the fact that my image is larger than the print dimensions. When I'd print, my registration marks would never be perfectly in the corner, but they were still the same 1/4" size I set them to. (I made sure "Center Image" was turned on, but it didn't make a difference.) That meant that when I set the image position in cricut to 0,0 the alignment was off, even after cutting the tape and setting the page into place on the mat. I fixed the cut alignment by changing that positioning. I still cut the tape rectangle with the position set to 0,0 but when cutting the image I left the dimensions at 8.5 x 11, but changed the position to the width of the automatic printer margin. (In my case that's 1/8" so I input .125,.125 for the position.) It still wasn't perfect (I think reloading the mat shifted it a little) but it's the closest I could get it, and the only usable cut I had after tinkering with settings for quite some time. If your image has enough bleed around it, this will be the ticket. Happy crafting!
Greatly appreciate the input. What printer do you have? Maybe this will help more people. I find most issues we run into is the Printer not the cricut.
@@kristenroma7833 if you go into your advanced printer settings you can select "print boarderless" and it goes right to the edge (as much as it can) hope it helps!
LISTEN........ I am soooo Grateful That I found YOUR channel.. I cannot draw for the LiFE of me.. BUT You have openned Up a new World with All My Cricut Machines that are stored away just because I don't know how to use them properly.. I will be watching this video over and over and over.. well you get what i mean .. Please Keep Making More Videos and if you can make vids showing us how to make those pretty girls as well please do so.. not to copy but to make our own images..Thanks again for your time and sharing your gifts with the world.. Blessings!
Thank you so much for the guidance, I’m starting a business and it’s so disheartening to buy such a expensive machine and continuously failing lol I appreciate it so much, keep doing what you do!
This is fantastic, bit all you have to do is wait h the paper size in the upper left hand corner before you print and it will fill up the entire Paige without all these steps
Absolutely brilliant. I make a lot of stickers and labels. Had to believe there was a way to save all the wasted paper. Found this and it showed me way more than just what I needed to know. You showed me things I needed to know that I didn't even know I needed to know. Thank you, Sir!
This is a GODSEND. I was about ready to either return my machine or chuck it out the window because it was absolutely a crapshoot for how it cut out my already printed images - THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is the only solution I found that even came CLOSE to what I was trying to get help for and it hit my problem dead on. Thank you thank you thank you thank you
Thank you so much for this! I just got myself a Cricut today and was getting a little frustrated that I couldn't get it to cut what I needed from what I printed. I had the right idea, but was missing just a little. Thank you so much for this!
This video saved me. Thank you for showing me this method of cutting decent size stickers without wasting so much sticker paper. I was getting fed up using the print and cut method.
Thanks for the reply. I started using this to make larger vinyl decals for cars too. Still works great and I even just got the Maker and it works just as good on that machine.
Thank you so much! I know you made this video a while ago but it has really helped me along with the ink scape tutorial. These were super helpful. Definitely the best video and most helpful!
This tutorial is FANTASTIC! I ran into a few problems due to my equipment and I'd like to share my solutions if ANYONE is having the same issues I was! I am using Clip Studio Paint, Hp Envy 4520 printer, and I have an Explorer Air 2. And the material I'm using is a matte sticker sheet and the self laminate. First, don't forget page markers (those little squares in the corners of the page) CSP does not have a specific setting for markers unless you are doing storyboards for comics, so just add 4 squares yourself and save that 8.5" x 11" page as a preset for all your full page sticker needs. Now that's all fine and dandy, but my cuts were reaaally offset after setting up everything here correctly shown in the video. I found out my printer does not support borderless printing on letter-size pages, so the prints were coming out with a 1/8 of an inch border on all 4 sides. The way I tackled this was testing out the image size and positioning in Cricut. For some reason setting x= 0 and y= .125 and keeping the image size 8.5" by 11" works PERFECTLY! I thought since the boarder was there each side had to be reduced by .125" and the image had to shrink down by .25" on each side. To my amazement, all I had to change was the Y-axis. And with the laminate and sticker sheet, I made a custom material and set it to 325 pressure. 300 was almost on the mark, but 325 works perfectly. Other than all that, my printer stopped printing color for a bit, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver countless times. Don't ask me how I fixed that I don't even know. I hope this helps someone having similar issues!!
Thank you for sharing your experience. Sometimes it takes a lot to work with what you have. I run into so many different issues with these devices and printers are the worst sometimes.
Thank you! I think I may be having this exact problem but I don't understand your solution at all, could you clarify? When you said "For some reason setting x= 0 and y= .125 and keeping the image size 8.5" by 11" works PERFECTLY!" did you set this measurement on your printer, in CSP, or on DesignSpace?
@@amberseber6839 The 8.5" by 11" Was the measurement made in CSP first, and the x= 0 y= .125 were the measurements in design space when setting up the cuts!
I've done this the hard way. I printed, laminated and cut LOL doll images for my daughters bday party, before they came out with the party favors. I'm trying this with my new cricut! Thanks.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU .... i've been looking for a solution with my cricut for 1 month now and you just solved it ... i test it with 8.5x11 with 12x12 and with 12x24 and it WORK so THANKKKKK YOUUUUUU :)
How did you set up the 12x12? When I try to do the blue painter's tape it does not allow me to cut a 12x12 shape. The biggest I can cut would be 11.5 x 23.5? I'm so confused..TIA
For the 12x24 (and 12x12) didn't use tape just the mat and plain white 12x12 paper (2 glue together for the 12x24) then in photoshop i set it to 11.5x11.5 or 11.5x23.5 when you print you center it on the page so instead of placing it a x:0 y:0 in DS i put in in x:0.25 y:0.25 you have center your image :) that is what i did :) hope it helps
LoVelyFr THANK YOU! I just found a way to save my Design Space image as a png and open it in Photoshop and I feel I've got the jackpot. I was staring to recreate everything in PS. So if I'm trying to do this all on 12x12 do I even need to use tape? Wouldn't I line up my paper on the 12x12 mat and leave a 0.25 margin in Photoshop and then set up the x and y in DS at 0.25? The tape is throwing me off! I'm so appreciative of your help... I'm working on this right now and on a time crunch :/
no tape for the 12x12 ... use a 12x12 paper ... BUT in photoshop set your canvas (base background how ever you want to call it) at 11.5x11.5 ... put your registration mark at 0.25 like in the video same thing in four corner .... print it on a 12x12 paper CENTER IT (use the printer or program option for that) ... then in DS size your image a 11.5x11.5 but instead of placing it a 0x0 place it at 0.25x0.25 so ds accept your cut cause its 11.5 and it should work (work for me) can i ask what is the method you use to save your ds image in png ??? please
Very intricate process just for the set up. I am going to save this for latter when I get a little further along. I use Photo shop very well but not ready for this.
Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. I print and cut shrinky paper, which is not cheap. This will help me make use of every last bit of paper!
I watched this because I was trying to help someone else with a Cricut. This is why I don't own a Cricut. Other machines will cut a full-page print and cut without tricks. I don't understand why the limitation on Cricut! Genius workaround though. But my Zing does it without all these tricks. I think the Silhouette does too.
yea I'm pissed. I bought a cricut in december, just opened it up last week to start using it (was very slow in clearing a space for it) and now I realize it can't do the most importnat thing. I really want to return it now and get a silhouette or something without this illogical limitation.
Dude you’re the video I’ve been looking for!! My explore 3 kept on shrinking my print under 5x10 making it useless for my product. Saving this and trying tonight.!!
This actually works & Microsoft word can be used as one of the software programs but it's a few work arounds such as converting to png image to upload to design space. Hopefully this helps someone else.
@@EricMBoyd I am having alignment issues and also my images are coming out big and small when i printed how you did it. They seem like inconsistently coming out the same. So how would go about fixing this problem. Same method as you and having problems for days now.
Found your video after reading a post on Facebook about how much it helped her. I had to watch it a couple of times but I finally understand and really appreciate you making it. I haven't used print and cut in a while because of the waste. THANK YOU for sharing.
THANK YOU for this! Saved me so much time and money. I've had my cricut for years and it's barely been touched since it caused so many frustrations! I could never find a tutorial or way to cut stickers like this.
Welcome, I had the same issue when I got my machine and frustrated me for while until one day I just thought I will not let this machine get the better of me. Once I realized part of the issue was design space not keeping my images the way I created them I had my ahhh haa moment.
Awesome, I had some tricks similar to this but the use of the tape really makes it much more accurate. Great video, thanks for sharing I will be using this trick.
I spent all last afternoon getting mad at my Cricut because I couldn't figure out why it wasn't cutting accurately- was having a really hard time finding anything by googling (Googlefu weak?) and your tape trick worked like a charm, thank you so much for uploading!
Man, you are awesome, where have you been all my Cricut life! I love it. thank you sooooo much for sharing. Now I just have to get Photoshop for my Mac and I'll be all set. Thanks again.
Eric, your tutorial and method worked like a charm for my full page size, extra large one image iron on. I've never used Adobe Photoshop but you made it easy enough. I used HP inkjet to print on Jolee's Easy Boutique Image for Dark Fabrics first. My Cricut Explore Air 2 did the cutting. The off-set white background worked beautifully. I made a few adjustments, like welding a lot of empty spots, but ultimately, the project turned out perfectly. Thanks!!!!
Comments like this are why I posted the video. You are welcome and I am always grateful to see how people are using this to so many other things than stickers!
I was going to ask WHEN the real video started, but looked at the comments. It looks like you impressed a lot of folks so I'll gratefully watch the full video. Thanks!
Why haven’t I seen this video before now!! Thank you I have an explorer air 2 and have lately had problems with print and cut for cake toppers and other things I will give this a try before throwing my machine out the dang window.
Nicely done. very well explain!!!. I don't even have a cricut, and i watched the whole video. i have an Etsy shop i only sale digitals at the moment. I have many request for print outs. thinking to purchase a cricut. so i am trying to learn about it and how to use it. Thank you so much. for sharing!!.
This vid helped me so much, now i could print more stickers without wasting paper and cut just enough on one page just in time for artist alley! Dont let the cricut company find out about this video 😂
I'm having a hard time lining the paper up correctly to where it's cutting by a lot. Tried re-positioning the paper placement a couple times but it's not working for me
@@EricMBoyd Are the registration squares supposed to be on the corners of the paper? My printer seems to be adding padding to the paper. I have an Epson as well, did you print using the setting US letter (borderless)?
Thank you so much for making this video. I've been tearing my hair out for the last 3 days because print then cut is such complete garbage. Using your method fixed my issue with inaccurate cuts when using glossy paper.
Thanks for taking the time to post this! You're a Cricut Ninja!! I was so annoyed at how much material I was wasting... That's not going to be the case anymore :-D
Yep. Been using the same mat for a year. I use the Awesome cleaner from Dollar Tree every so often to clean it along with their scraper. And then spray a little adhesive. It does great.
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Thank you!! I don't have Photoshop but I have had success using your steps on Windows Publisher. First I just started with "calibrating" my printer and machine by only using the four squares and reg copy paper (so I wouldn't waste ink) after gaining a sucessful cut then throw my design on the page and did the next steps on the video. The main thing is to figure out your printer. 😃
yeah.. it works! :) I used CorelDraw to prepare the registration marks. However I did find watching how he did it in 'inkscape' to be helpful as well. For instance, he gives the size of the registration marks that he uses.. mine were way too big until seeing his. In my 'trials' I used a pen in place of the blade which I was glad of because to start with I didnt use the registration marks at all !! Couldnt see a use for them. Stupid me.. Cricut uses them to size the page instead sizing to whatever was in the middle of the page. I learn the hard way. To make the mat last longer I dont have the blade in during the cutting of the registration marks or I can see that cutting repeatedly in the same place would wear out the mat in that spot. Now all I have to do is fathom out why on earth Cricut actually cuts 'twice' when only supposed to be once. But thats another issue. So grateful to Eric for giving his time to video and let us have how he does this 'work'. Bless yer heart honey, great stuff, thanks again.
This was a refreshing to read... I really appreciate it. Your Pen trick is a really good Idea! I never thought to use a pen for testing. If you don't mind I may have to add that to a new video. I am working on a new video series and will be breaking everything down into smaller videos . Again thank you, this makes me want to share more videos!
is there a video on how to do the same thing on inkscape? I haven't ventured into photoshop yet...and as I was watching I was lost on how he actually got the registration marks on there
Thank you for sharing! Not sure I completely understand because I'm kind of new and keep discovering but I hate the waste so I'm going to give it a try. Awesome.
Can I use this method to print on A4 paper or do I need to specifically buy papers of Letter size? I understand the print size for Letter and A4 are different. When I cut the 8.5x11" guide on the painters tap, then put my printed A4 paper within this guideline, it didnt fit. What is the workaround please? (Im from the UK so have never printed on the Letter print size)
You can use all the same techniques with UK A4 paper just need to change the Cut on the painter's tape to match your size paper. UK A4 is 8.27x11.69 in the US we use 8.5x11, so change your cut and you should be good.
Hi Eric. Thank so much! I hope cricut make a change so you can print and cut full pages, but until then this is great. Just wondering if the update to design space that just occurred changes any of your instructions. Registration marks used to be just corners, but now it’s a full black box. Will this technique still work? Thanks!
I have tried to do this but it does not work, the print is always off when cutting, also for this to work you need a borderless printer, a lot of the cheaper printers will not print borderless, which will put your registration marks off the page, automatically. I have been trying to do this for weeks with no luck and a lot of wasted materials, I will just wait and print the old way until cricut allows us to print larger than it allows.
Awesome work Professor, from start to finish your tips and tricks answered a lot of my question I had prior about using a Ciruit product. Great work👍👍👍
Cool... just the information I was looking for... thanks! (I've been doing printing, digital prepress, die-cutting, scoring, etc. for 30+ years... you totally nailed it on all of the concepts and "work-arounds" to get the Cricut to maximize its capabilities)... Thanks Again!
Great video! This may be hard to explain. What if you left the border tape cutout a bit short at the registration end. You line up the feed side of the page even with the cutout blue border but the other side will overlap onto the blue tape. This would still allow you to properly line it up. Then when the machine cuts the registration, the blue tap layer protects your mat (hopefully)?
thanks for the tutorial. just a suggestion, try cutting your videos a little more to just what is necessary. there's a lot of extraneous footage here and it could've been a short, 10-15 minute video instead of 33! i was dying to get it over with, lol. no hate, just a suggestion.
I am new to using Cricut and looking for any videos to train with. I thought your presentation was fine but left me with questions. You said you made stickers...are you peeling something off the back and they will be sticky and stick to something? Trick your Cricut...I didn’t quite understand the trick..is the trick to shade out everything except an 8x11” section? I felt you were very confident in your presentation and I would have liked to hear the why for each step. This is from a retired teacher. Thank you for the video.
Shading out the mat is a good way to look at it but I am using sticker paper and the trick is to allow the cricut to print and cut full page. By default the cricut doesn't allow this.
Eric M Boyd ..thanks for your response. I am wondering if the Cricut Maker is different. I purchased the Maker. I have only done a card which was the tutorial that came with the machine.
Hey all It's 4/6/20 and this hack still works. I have a new Cricut Explore Air 2 and the latest version of Design Space. You're amazing for figuring this out Eric - thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Great video. I haven't read all the comments, but just in case someone didn't offer up this idea, to save wear and tear on your mat, why don't you pause and take the blade out before the registration mark cuts just like you did when your work was out of alignment?
Go check out Leigh’s video. She is using her own border idea instead of taped mat and larger than 8.5x11 paper. ruclips.net/video/nF8KUeQ2pEw/видео.html also go ahead and click that subscribe button for her.
does anyone know what to put the material on? Like i press sticker paper but the cricut doesn’t read it
Sorry, Photoshop... its more prominent in my other video.
@@arie9280 are you referring to the scan cut feature? If so the scanner doesn't scan glossy paper.... that is another reason I created the trick your cricut hack. I could never get the cricut design space feature to scan glossy materials.
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Well I'll be damned!!! This video is 6 years old. I feel embarrassed by just now finding your videos. Also according to the comments you are the holy grail and the goat! Thanks for sharing❤
Wow. Just wow 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Three years old and still one of the best videos for this. I've watched this video like 5 times...
Thank You!
The cold press laminating trick is the real MVP here. This is probably the most helpful and complete video on how to make high quality die cut waterproof stickers I've seen. THANK YOU.
I know this is three years old, but it's just a brilliant tutorial. Thank you for Cricut cheat. It's 'cutting corners really', thank you again. Carole, London UK
I was reading the comments and thinking "there's no way this video is that great..." but then holy moly this tutorial is GOLD, great video with perfect explanations. You're an incredible person.
Thank You! I only wish I had better filming equipment back then to make the video better. I always planned to refilm this tutorial, but have never gotten around to doing so.
This is by far the best cricut hack video out there! I am so thankful for the time you put in to give us step by step instructions. The tips along the way were extremely helpful! Thanks again Eric! 2 years later and we are still discovering your wealth of knowledge!
Thanks
Praise be to thee, oh Master of ye Cricut. Thanks to you, I can finally cut images that I printed with Photoshop on an A4 piece of paper. If you consider 99% of the world use this format of paper, you are nothing but a superhero! Thank you, so much!
Same !!!
OMG I have watched so many videos in the last 48 hours on How to do this and either no one truly understands FULL Sheet or they just don't know what they are doing. THANK YOU!!! I Wish I would have found you before all the Noise! This is Perfect!! You are a Great Teacher!!
Fantastic tutorial!!! Got my Cricut yesterday and my expectations at using print and cut option were definitely not met. I could not calibrate it because it always prints the wrong size. With your tutorial I finally managed to make first stickers sheet. Still need practice but you helped so much. Thank you!!!
I have watched this so many times. It's the best way to Print and Cut on Cricut. Thanks!
Thank you.
Whaaaat.... do you know how many times I've messed up a project because i had to take the mat out?
You're a genius. I've watched millions of cricut vids over the years and not once did anyone ever do anything in this video.
Correct, big black box is not needed. That is why I made this video.... I needed a way to make more professional products to sell than what Design space and the Cricut would allow. When I made the investiment I was very unhappy with the size restrictions and the face that Design space would turn my art into a printed low-quality mess. I developed this method to circumvent that entire issue. Now I get full quality prints on glossy paper where I can laminate and make look more professional looking. I also now use the full page. This is important as one of my biggest sellers is Die Cut magnets and I hated wasting half a sheet of magnet paper every time I used Design space to print and cut. Now i print from photoshop and use design space to only cut.
me too.
Vanessa Aguilera you have didn't machine names in your description. Which one are you using in this video and which one is best. Also what is the name and use of the last machine in your video that you look like your using to flatten or gloss the stickers with?
I came back here to tell you thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This video saved me so much material. I can't like the video a million times or I would.
Thanks, That is great. Glad it worked.
There was not one minute in this video where i was not impressed! This video answered EVERY question I had!!!
Wow, Thank you for the kind words.
BAM! Now THOSE are hacks!! Brilliant manipulation of files and machines to do what we need them to do. Absolutely fantastic!
Bro, you held my attention for over 30 minutes, congratulations! Thanks for the tutorial. I'm in the beginning research stages of starting my own decals service and I'm shopping for a good vinyl cutter.
Thanks and good luck.
Awesome tutorial! I’m an original Cricut user (remember the cartridge days?) and you just proved that one can always learn a trick or two from geniuses like you! Thanks Eric!
Just completed a successful full-page sticker print with your awesome tutorial! Thanks for the help - you the man!
I just recently bought a Cricut maker, and spent a frustrating day trying to match cuts to the printed image. I wish I’d watched this video first!. This is by far the most useful information I’ve seen about the Cricut. Thank you ever so much!
Thank You. Hope you enjoy the machine. It can be frustrating at times.
I realize this is an older video, but thought I'd make a note for anyone else struggling like I was. My printer automatically adds a margin. Unlike this video, the software won't let me dismiss the fact that my image is larger than the print dimensions. When I'd print, my registration marks would never be perfectly in the corner, but they were still the same 1/4" size I set them to. (I made sure "Center Image" was turned on, but it didn't make a difference.) That meant that when I set the image position in cricut to 0,0 the alignment was off, even after cutting the tape and setting the page into place on the mat. I fixed the cut alignment by changing that positioning. I still cut the tape rectangle with the position set to 0,0 but when cutting the image I left the dimensions at 8.5 x 11, but changed the position to the width of the automatic printer margin. (In my case that's 1/8" so I input .125,.125 for the position.) It still wasn't perfect (I think reloading the mat shifted it a little) but it's the closest I could get it, and the only usable cut I had after tinkering with settings for quite some time. If your image has enough bleed around it, this will be the ticket. Happy crafting!
Greatly appreciate the input. What printer do you have? Maybe this will help more people. I find most issues we run into is the Printer not the cricut.
@@EricMBoyd I have an HP OfficeJet 4650
So did you leave the tap on the cutting mat like it was for position 0,0 or did you redo that too?
@@kacieo777 i have hp office jet 5600 series & its very frustrating because it always leaves a margin too.
@@kristenroma7833 if you go into your advanced printer settings you can select "print boarderless" and it goes right to the edge (as much as it can) hope it helps!
LISTEN........ I am soooo Grateful That I found YOUR channel.. I cannot draw for the LiFE of me.. BUT You have openned Up a new World with All My Cricut Machines that are stored away just because I don't know how to use them properly.. I will be watching this video over and over and over.. well you get what i mean .. Please Keep Making More Videos and if you can make vids showing us how to make those pretty girls as well please do so.. not to copy but to make our own images..Thanks again for your time and sharing your gifts with the world..
Blessings!
Thank you for this. I was so frustrated trying to figure this out that I was almost brought to tears! hahaha You saved the day.
Welcome.
Wow, wow, wow.... I am a newbie to Cricut & you just opened a world of possibilities for my "Creatively Bent Personality"
Thanks, if you have any questions I will try and answer them. Hope you have fun with the cricut.
Thank you so much for the guidance, I’m starting a business and it’s so disheartening to buy such a expensive machine and continuously failing lol I appreciate it so much, keep doing what you do!
Thanks. Good luck on your business.
I know you've had hundreds of comments but I have to say this is one of the best tutorials I've seen on this machine. Thank you!
Thanks
Dude, this is totally pro. I can't even say how impressed I am. Trying this for sure. You earned a subscriber, thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
@@EricMBoyd is using Photoshop the only way to make the registration Mark can these marks be made in design space?
@@barbra429 no because we don't want to use Design space to print.
@@EricMBoyd Oh ok, thanks
This is fantastic, bit all you have to do is wait h the paper size in the upper left hand corner before you print and it will fill up the entire Paige without all these steps
Absolutely brilliant. I make a lot of stickers and labels. Had to believe there was a way to save all the wasted paper. Found this and it showed me way more than just what I needed to know. You showed me things I needed to know that I didn't even know I needed to know. Thank you, Sir!
Thank You. Glad I could show you those things you didn't know you needed to know... LOL
Great tutorial. Also, loved the tip about taking the blade out, and putting it back in. That was a good tip as well.
Julie Little I'm confused about how to print and cut here ??
Can I help? What are you confused about?
This is a GODSEND. I was about ready to either return my machine or chuck it out the window because it was absolutely a crapshoot for how it cut out my already printed images - THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is the only solution I found that even came CLOSE to what I was trying to get help for and it hit my problem dead on. Thank you thank you thank you thank you
Thanks for the comment. if you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Thank you so much for this! I just got myself a Cricut today and was getting a little frustrated that I couldn't get it to cut what I needed from what I printed. I had the right idea, but was missing just a little. Thank you so much for this!
This video saved me. Thank you for showing me this method of cutting decent size stickers without wasting so much sticker paper. I was getting fed up using the print and cut method.
Thanks for the reply. I started using this to make larger vinyl decals for cars too. Still works great and I even just got the Maker and it works just as good on that machine.
Brilliant! Thank u didn't think about just using the cut feature full sized. That's been my biggest hang up between Cricut vs Silhouette
Thank you so much! I know you made this video a while ago but it has really helped me along with the ink scape tutorial. These were super helpful. Definitely the best video and most helpful!
This tutorial is FANTASTIC! I ran into a few problems due to my equipment and I'd like to share my solutions if ANYONE is having the same issues I was!
I am using Clip Studio Paint, Hp Envy 4520 printer, and I have an Explorer Air 2. And the material I'm using is a matte sticker sheet and the self laminate.
First, don't forget page markers (those little squares in the corners of the page) CSP does not have a specific setting for markers unless you are doing storyboards for comics, so just add 4 squares yourself and save that 8.5" x 11" page as a preset for all your full page sticker needs.
Now that's all fine and dandy, but my cuts were reaaally offset after setting up everything here correctly shown in the video. I found out my printer does not support borderless printing on letter-size pages, so the prints were coming out with a 1/8 of an inch border on all 4 sides.
The way I tackled this was testing out the image size and positioning in Cricut. For some reason setting x= 0 and y= .125 and keeping the image size 8.5" by 11" works PERFECTLY! I thought since the boarder was there each side had to be reduced by .125" and the image had to shrink down by .25" on each side. To my amazement, all I had to change was the Y-axis.
And with the laminate and sticker sheet, I made a custom material and set it to 325 pressure. 300 was almost on the mark, but 325 works perfectly.
Other than all that, my printer stopped printing color for a bit, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver countless times. Don't ask me how I fixed that I don't even know.
I hope this helps someone having similar issues!!
Thank you for sharing your experience. Sometimes it takes a lot to work with what you have. I run into so many different issues with these devices and printers are the worst sometimes.
Thank you! I think I may be having this exact problem but I don't understand your solution at all, could you clarify?
When you said "For some reason setting x= 0 and y= .125 and keeping the image size 8.5" by 11" works PERFECTLY!" did you set this measurement on your printer, in CSP, or on DesignSpace?
@@amberseber6839 The 8.5" by 11" Was the measurement made in CSP first, and the x= 0 y= .125 were the measurements in design space when setting up the cuts!
Dude, my jaw dropped when you pulled the blade out of the machine to re-align everything! You're very resourceful!! This helped a ton!
LOL thanks!
Huzzah! You, sir, are a genius! Thank you for being so thorough with this awesome tutorial
thanks!
I have been trying to figure this out for 2 days....this is a life saver!! Thanks!!
This all seems so simple, yet it never crossed my mind. Thank you for sharing such helpful tips. I can't wait to put them to good use.
I've done this the hard way. I printed, laminated and cut LOL doll images for my daughters bday party, before they came out with the party favors. I'm trying this with my new cricut! Thanks.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU .... i've been looking for a solution with my cricut for 1 month now and you just solved it ... i test it with 8.5x11 with 12x12 and with 12x24 and it WORK so THANKKKKK YOUUUUUU :)
Welcome, glad I could help!
How did you set up the 12x12? When I try to do the blue painter's tape it does not allow me to cut a 12x12 shape. The biggest I can cut would be 11.5 x 23.5? I'm so confused..TIA
For the 12x24 (and 12x12) didn't use tape just the mat and plain white 12x12 paper (2 glue together for the 12x24) then in photoshop i set it to 11.5x11.5 or 11.5x23.5 when you print you center it on the page so instead of placing it a x:0 y:0 in DS i put in in x:0.25 y:0.25 you have center your image :) that is what i did :) hope it helps
LoVelyFr THANK YOU! I just found a way to save my Design Space image as a png and open it in Photoshop and I feel I've got the jackpot. I was staring to recreate everything in PS. So if I'm trying to do this all on 12x12 do I even need to use tape? Wouldn't I line up my paper on the 12x12 mat and leave a 0.25 margin in Photoshop and then set up the x and y in DS at 0.25? The tape is throwing me off! I'm so appreciative of your help... I'm working on this right now and on a time crunch :/
no tape for the 12x12 ... use a 12x12 paper ... BUT in photoshop set your canvas (base background how ever you want to call it) at 11.5x11.5 ... put your registration mark at 0.25 like in the video same thing in four corner .... print it on a 12x12 paper CENTER IT (use the printer or program option for that) ... then in DS size your image a 11.5x11.5 but instead of placing it a 0x0 place it at 0.25x0.25 so ds accept your cut cause its 11.5 and it should work (work for me)
can i ask what is the method you use to save your ds image in png ??? please
OMG!! Thank you so much for this tip! I love that I can now print and not feel like I'm wasting so much paper just to 'Print & Cut'. Your AWESOME!
Welcome, Thanks.
Very intricate process just for the set up. I am going to save this for latter when I get a little further along. I use Photo shop very well but not ready for this.
Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. I print and cut shrinky paper, which is not cheap. This will help me make use of every last bit of paper!
That's great I have done that a few times too. What do you make?
I watched this because I was trying to help someone else with a Cricut. This is why I don't own a Cricut. Other machines will cut a full-page print and cut without tricks. I don't understand why the limitation on Cricut! Genius workaround though. But my Zing does it without all these tricks. I think the Silhouette does too.
yea I'm pissed. I bought a cricut in december, just opened it up last week to start using it (was very slow in clearing a space for it) and now I realize it can't do the most importnat thing. I really want to return it now and get a silhouette or something without this illogical limitation.
Dude you’re the video I’ve been looking for!!
My explore 3 kept on shrinking my print under 5x10 making it useless for my product. Saving this and trying tonight.!!
I ordered the Cricut Maker yesterday. I will try to do this from Illustrator :D Thanks for the video
YOU ROCK. I just got a Cricut and the misalignment issue has driven me crazy ---- for HOURS. Thank you for sharing your process. Really --- THANK YOU!
This actually works & Microsoft word can be used as one of the software programs but it's a few work arounds such as converting to png image to upload to design space. Hopefully this helps someone else.
Greatly appreciate the information. I hope this helps others too.
@@EricMBoyd I am having alignment issues and also my images are coming out big and small when i printed how you did it. They seem like inconsistently coming out the same. So how would go about fixing this problem. Same method as you and having problems for days now.
Thank you it is helpful.
@@chadprice4954 Sounds like a printer issue.
Dude now why the F you didn't tape the border and so on before you got on camera I know how to tape 💩💯
Found your video after reading a post on Facebook about how much it helped her. I had to watch it a couple of times but I finally understand and really appreciate you making it. I haven't used print and cut in a while because of the waste. THANK YOU for sharing.
Excellent tutorial my friend! You are the REAL MVP! This is fantastic!
THANK YOU for this! Saved me so much time and money. I've had my cricut for years and it's barely been touched since it caused so many frustrations! I could never find a tutorial or way to cut stickers like this.
Welcome, I had the same issue when I got my machine and frustrated me for while until one day I just thought I will not let this machine get the better of me. Once I realized part of the issue was design space not keeping my images the way I created them I had my ahhh haa moment.
Wow! Genius. Seriously had me thinking, dam he’s smart, definitely going to be using this idea. Thanks so much
my man!!! hats off to you, Eric. This was propa good!
thanks!
Awesome, I had some tricks similar to this but the use of the tape really makes it much more accurate. Great video, thanks for sharing I will be using this trick.
I spent all last afternoon getting mad at my Cricut because I couldn't figure out why it wasn't cutting accurately- was having a really hard time finding anything by googling (Googlefu weak?) and your tape trick worked like a charm, thank you so much for uploading!
Thanks, glad it worked for you.
Man, you are awesome, where have you been all my Cricut life! I love it. thank you sooooo much for sharing. Now I just have to get Photoshop for my Mac and I'll be all set. Thanks again.
Eric, your tutorial and method worked like a charm for my full page size, extra large one image iron on. I've never used Adobe Photoshop but you made it easy enough. I used HP inkjet to print on Jolee's Easy Boutique Image for Dark Fabrics first. My Cricut Explore Air 2 did the cutting. The off-set white background worked beautifully. I made a few adjustments, like welding a lot of empty spots, but ultimately, the project turned out perfectly. Thanks!!!!
Comments like this are why I posted the video. You are welcome and I am always grateful to see how people are using this to so many other things than stickers!
I was going to ask WHEN the real video started, but looked at the comments. It looks like you impressed a lot of folks so I'll gratefully watch the full video. Thanks!
Loser.. earn your success! You act like your out in the heat? 🌡🏜
Watch a damn sheltered video like we did! 🏡🛋👨🏻💻
#maketime,HeDid!
Why haven’t I seen this video before now!! Thank you I have an explorer air 2 and have lately had problems with print and cut for cake toppers and other things I will give this a try before throwing my machine out the dang window.
I have the same machine and still use it. I also have the Maker and I can say the Maker reads the print and cut lines better on more materials.
witch tab you touch to disperse the registration mark?
Brilliant. I have been working on this...but it was the centering on the printing step that I missed.
But how did you add the registration marks? What did you click? And was it done one DS or a different program?
Was done in photoshop.
@@EricMBoyd can you elaborate on that a bit? just 1/4" blocks and line them up in the corners? i need detaillllllsss please :)
@@rockabillybarbie2688 what kind of details? 1/4" blocks and line them up in the corners is correct.
Nicely done. very well explain!!!. I don't even have a cricut, and i watched the whole video. i have an Etsy shop i only sale digitals at the moment. I have many request for print outs. thinking to purchase a cricut. so i am trying to learn about it and how to use it. Thank you so much. for sharing!!.
Thanks, if you have any questions please feel free. I do my best to answer them.
I Just watched this whole video and I don’t even own a cricket 😂 thanks RUclips
Ky me too
Its cricut not cricket haha
lmboooooo
😂
My God
This vid helped me so much, now i could print more stickers without wasting paper and cut just enough on one page just in time for artist alley! Dont let the cricut company find out about this video 😂
Dude, you're a lifesaver. This was the best thing I could have foujd. Thank you so much
Thank you
your great I am a beginner and I learned so much from your one video compared to several others
Thanks
I'm having a hard time lining the paper up correctly to where it's cutting by a lot. Tried re-positioning the paper placement a couple times but it's not working for me
Angel K are the registration squares cutting correctly with the tape?
@@EricMBoyd Are the registration squares supposed to be on the corners of the paper? My printer seems to be adding padding to the paper. I have an Epson as well, did you print using the setting US letter (borderless)?
Thank you so much for making this video. I've been tearing my hair out for the last 3 days because print then cut is such complete garbage. Using your method fixed my issue with inaccurate cuts when using glossy paper.
Welcome. Thanks for sharing too.
Eric :) This is awesome, thanks for taking the time to create this! Very helpful.
Thanks, let me know if you have issues and I will do my best to help.
Thanks for taking the time to post this! You're a Cricut Ninja!! I was so annoyed at how much material I was wasting... That's not going to be the case anymore :-D
LOL nice Cricut Ninja I like that. Thanks.
When my mat loses its stickiness...I just spray a little bit of adhesive spray on it and it like brand new again.
Yep. Been using the same mat for a year. I use the Awesome cleaner from Dollar Tree every so often to clean it along with their scraper. And then spray a little adhesive. It does great.
So you don’t have to use tape?
@@BlakcUrb I don't need tape unless it is something thick.
Any adhesive spray or do you have a specific one you recommend?
I prefer embroidery spray adhesive. I use KK100. This can will last you years.
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Wow I wouldn’t have thought about using the Cricut cut the rectangle first. That’s genius!!!
When I say you are a genius you are. You need to start your own Fb group
Thank you!! I don't have Photoshop but I have had success using your steps on Windows Publisher. First I just started with "calibrating" my printer and machine by only using the four squares and reg copy paper (so I wouldn't waste ink) after gaining a sucessful cut then throw my design on the page and did the next steps on the video. The main thing is to figure out your printer. 😃
Thanks for sharing.
The registration marks are such a smart idea to make sure your cricut isnt about to waste a whole page on ya!!! Love this and will use in the future!
aaahh.. so thats what they are for! Not for Cricut to scan them, but to make sure Cricut has it right.. thanks for that :)
Man totally impressed.. thanks man for sharing.. much appreciated Eric
Thank you for all the information that you gave in this video. It was very helpful
yeah.. it works! :) I used CorelDraw to prepare the registration marks. However I did find watching how he did it in 'inkscape' to be helpful as well. For instance, he gives the size of the registration marks that he uses.. mine were way too big until seeing his. In my 'trials' I used a pen in place of the blade which I was glad of because to start with I didnt use the registration marks at all !! Couldnt see a use for them. Stupid me.. Cricut uses them to size the page instead sizing to whatever was in the middle of the page. I learn the hard way. To make the mat last longer I dont have the blade in during the cutting of the registration marks or I can see that cutting repeatedly in the same place would wear out the mat in that spot. Now all I have to do is fathom out why on earth Cricut actually cuts 'twice' when only supposed to be once. But thats another issue. So grateful to Eric for giving his time to video and let us have how he does this 'work'. Bless yer heart honey, great stuff, thanks again.
This was a refreshing to read... I really appreciate it. Your Pen trick is a really good Idea! I never thought to use a pen for testing. If you don't mind I may have to add that to a new video. I am working on a new video series and will be breaking everything down into smaller videos . Again thank you, this makes me want to share more videos!
the score tool might be even better than the pen for testing.. just an idea :) I look forward to your other videos.
another good idea. No waste. Save the Pens ink.
is there a video on how to do the same thing on inkscape? I haven't ventured into photoshop yet...and as I was watching I was lost on how he actually got the registration marks on there
Thank you for sharing! Not sure I completely understand because I'm kind of new and keep discovering but I hate the waste so I'm going to give it a try. Awesome.
Can I use this method to print on A4 paper or do I need to specifically buy papers of Letter size?
I understand the print size for Letter and A4 are different. When I cut the 8.5x11" guide on the painters tap, then put my printed A4 paper within this guideline, it didnt fit.
What is the workaround please? (Im from the UK so have never printed on the Letter print size)
You can use all the same techniques with UK A4 paper just need to change the Cut on the painter's tape to match your size paper. UK A4 is 8.27x11.69 in the US we use 8.5x11, so change your cut and you should be good.
Thank you so much for the reply. So glad I stumbled across your videos.
Hi Eric. Thank so much! I hope cricut make a change so you can print and cut full pages, but until then this is great. Just wondering if the update to design space that just occurred changes any of your instructions. Registration marks used to be just corners, but now it’s a full black box. Will this technique still work? Thanks!
I have tried to do this but it does not work, the print is always off when cutting, also for this to work you need a borderless printer, a lot of the cheaper printers will not print borderless, which will put your registration marks off the page, automatically. I have been trying to do this for weeks with no luck and a lot of wasted materials, I will just wait and print the old way until cricut allows us to print larger than it allows.
Martyn Tranter i really hope they do. It’s such a waste of time and materials.
It works in the latest version I just needed to do this the other day, I never use the Cricut Print and Cut options.
Would this still be the same process since design space has updated, the print then it has a whole square now and not just the corners ?
yes, he said so to me in his reply to a similar question. Do not use 'print and cut' just use the cut. :)
He used Photoshop to print from. Me, I will be using CorelDraw.
super!!! I just try to cut with your method! thank you very much!
Awesome work Professor, from start to finish your tips and tricks answered a lot of my question I had prior about using a Ciruit product. Great work👍👍👍
Thanks
Cool... just the information I was looking for... thanks! (I've been doing printing, digital prepress, die-cutting, scoring, etc. for 30+ years... you totally nailed it on all of the concepts and "work-arounds" to get the Cricut to maximize its capabilities)... Thanks Again!
Fantastic! You're awesome, thanks for this! So much great stuff in this video alone. I can't wait to see more from you!
Great video! This may be hard to explain. What if you left the border tape cutout a bit short at the registration end. You line up the feed side of the page even with the cutout blue border but the other side will overlap onto the blue tape. This would still allow you to properly line it up. Then when the machine cuts the registration, the blue tap layer protects your mat (hopefully)?
Yes, I have even seen people do this with just an L shape border top and left side to align.
Will this work with Microsoft word?
This is what I was looking for since last week!!!! Thanks a lot sir!
thanks for the tutorial. just a suggestion, try cutting your videos a little more to just what is necessary. there's a lot of extraneous footage here and it could've been a short, 10-15 minute video instead of 33! i was dying to get it over with, lol. no hate, just a suggestion.
I agree, I ended up playing it at 1.5x the speed
@@PetCrazzy same, i found it easier to understand at high speeds lol
Yeah big same! Also no hate, just an adhd person who’s dying to know the answer! Lol
@@cupcakeofdeath138 me too omg. I played it in 2x and I was still struggling lol
I am new to using Cricut and looking for any videos to train with. I thought your presentation was fine but left me with questions. You said you made stickers...are you peeling something off the back and they will be sticky and stick to something? Trick your Cricut...I didn’t quite understand the trick..is the trick to shade out everything except an 8x11” section? I felt you were very confident in your presentation and I would have liked to hear the why for each step. This is from a retired teacher. Thank you for the video.
Shading out the mat is a good way to look at it but I am using sticker paper and the trick is to allow the cricut to print and cut full page. By default the cricut doesn't allow this.
Eric M Boyd ..thanks for your response. I am wondering if the Cricut Maker is different. I purchased the Maker. I have only done a card which was the tutorial that came with the machine.
@@monaquilts4679 They are really only different in that they can do different things but still use the same rules and software to achieve said things.
It's ridiculous that we have to come up with hacks instead of cricket just allowing full page prints.
OMG thank you so much... I've spent countless nights trying to figure out how tp use a full page to print and cut... you've just eased my life
I know the feeling! Welcome, hope it works for you as it has been a rollercoaster of who it works for.
I just watched this whole video and I dont even make stickers with my cricut..... 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Thanks
B. O. I don’t even have a cricut and I watched it! 😀
@@longlifenoodle 🤣🤣🤣 next level dedication right there.
Noreen E Kelly omg same 🤣
Same 😂
I'm so glad I stumbled on this; it's brilliant!
I was ready to throw my cricut out the window until I saw this. Thank you
Hannah Chism urghhh me too. Lol 😂
Me too....and I have only had it for a few days. I'm stresseda
I meant stressed!
me too. uggggh
Even if it was hundreds of dollars?😂
Hey all It's 4/6/20 and this hack still works. I have a new Cricut Explore Air 2 and the latest version of Design Space. You're amazing for figuring this out Eric - thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks!
Aha! You have to be 10% smarter than the Cricut!! That, I am NOT, so thank you!
Great video. I haven't read all the comments, but just in case someone didn't offer up this idea, to save wear and tear on your mat, why don't you pause and take the blade out before the registration mark cuts just like you did when your work was out of alignment?