Typically, laser cutting and engraving machines cost much more than vinyl craft cutters such as Cricut. While an ordinary printer would place color or pigments on paper, or any other chosen surface, a CNC device would carve, engrave, cut or do a similar activity on a sheet of vinyl or fabric. The information about the design is sent to the printer. You create a design and give a print command.

These cutting machines work much like computer printers. The computer design offers the data in terms of direction, length, depth, width, and speed for the actuator and the cutting tool to work along the chosen path. The tool can be a blade, router, laser beam or bit.

It’s a computer program that controls the motorized actuator, which in turn guides the specific tool along the path chosen by computer design. What is CNC?īoth laser cutting machines and Cricut use the same CNC technology to control and guide their respective cutting equipment.ĬNC is the short form of “Computer Numerical Control”. Therefore, a laser cutting machine can cut the material for more projects before anything needs replacement.īut this is not to say that a laser machine would have no issues at all. The job of cutting is done by a light beam which is released by the cutter machines. Laser cutting machines, however, do not have any of these issues because the cutter does not come into contact with the material being cut. Vinyl cutting machines such as the Cricut suffer from wear and tear and have to be replaced from time to time. In the case of die or craft cutting machine Cricut, the blades come into contact with the material being cut. This ensures that they cut through a given pattern. Both the cutting machines use CNC actuators that control the cutting equipment – blade or laser. Laser Cutter comparison, we can see that methods are different but technologies seem to be similar. 09:34 am GMT Comparison between Cricut and Laser Cutterĭespite many apparent and no so-apparent differences, there is also a similarity between the underlying technologies of the two types of cutting machines.

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