Professionals
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Much faster than its predecessor
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Reliable performance
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Great starting price
Disadvantages
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No new supported tools
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No new supported materials
Ask everyone who regularly uses a cricut that could be done to improve experience and you usually hear an answer to everyone else. It is a great machine with cool software, but it could be faster. Cricut’s exploration 3 introduced a way to create faster than the competition without losing quality or precision in this process. Cricut’s smart materials are large, but expensive and does not cover the full width of these cutting machines.
With the new and something obviously called Cricut explore 4The speed and accuracy, which is previously only available for intelligent materials, now exists what you feed. The best of everything is that this new machine is now one of the most affordable on the market.
It was always easier to show what a Cricut cutting machine does than describing someone in a short sentence. It is one of the most lovable properties of this category of devices, the restrictions are rarely based on hardware. The best places to see this for yourself are either the local farmers’ market or the Etsy where you can find clever people who have used a cricut to do everything from custom labels for handmade candles to complex decorations that can be ironed on shirts and jackets. With cricuts excellent and constantly improved design space -app and almost everyone of the cutting machines in the line -up, you can have some very cool things with little or no experience.
It would be surprising from the box if you could see the difference between a Cricut Explore 4 and the model published almost four years ago. Apart from the new, richer color of the outer plastic and the label on the cutting process, the visible parts of this machine are almost identical. The good news is that a drop in price was not equipped with a decline in hardware quality – this machine still feels very robust and cuts just as smoothly as the predecessor. However, if you are looking for a lot of new functions or a lot of new functions, you will not find them here. If you have a Cricut Explore 3, you more or less already have a Cricut Explore 4, which can shorten it and how the software interacts with this new machine.
Cutting a collection of stickers on the Cricut Explore 4
Cricut’s great standards with The Explore 4 is speed, especially with everything that is not called intelligent materials. On the Cricut website you will find “up to 2x faster” with a large asterisk that points out that the increase in performance is compared with exploring. To test this, I have the same amount of paper, vinyl, sticker paper, glitter box and ironing material in an Explore 3 and an Explore 4 to test the performance. In each test, the Explore 4 was significantly faster than the Explore 3, but only with the vinyl was the performance almost twice like the fast brand.
It is obviously better faster, especially if you use a cricut as part of a small craft company, but the impressive here is the binding of quality. Cricut is able to ensure a certain level of quality at speed with its intelligent materials, since everything is produced by Cricut. This means that the exact tolerances can be programmed. For this reason, intelligent materials can be cut on spectacular lengths without using a cutting mat and not damaging the machine.
In all tests that I carried out with the Explore 4, I cannot find any evidence of a loss of quality between intelligent materials and third -party providers. And if you invest in the longer 24-inch cutting mats, you can cut twice as much with a single instruction set with the same quality level.
I cut out a lampshade sticker with the Cricut Explore 4.
With 250 US dollars, Cricut’s new Explore 4 is available for them The same price you can get 3 For most days. This is incredible when you consider that the Explore 3 have been available for almost four years and have only recently seen considerable discounts at shopping events. This not only makes this machine simply to recommend its limited competition, but also as the best Cricut machine that you can recommend either on a new craftsmanship or as a best upgrade path if you have a previous generation.
