alt Hacker NewsThese are cool. For anyone in the market for a vinyl cutter I would recommend against Cricut though. Very cloud-subscription-user-hostile software that tried to limit the number of times you could use the machine you bought unless you had a subscription. I have a silhouette and control it with a plugin for inkscape and its great.
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awinter-py • yesterday at 6:08 PM
what's good? have been shopping for something to cut medium EVA sheets. seems like brother scan N cut is most likely to work with SVGs + linux, but can't handle anything past 2mm. siser juliet + silhouette get recommended too but I think both rely on proprietary software
laser cutters seem better on the software side, but more expensive, less safe? (and also not safe at all for vinyl)
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TechShop used to use large HP plotters repurposed as vinyl cutters. Unfortunately, HP's product now comes with overpriced "cloud-based software."[1]
[1] https://uscutter.com/hp-latex-54-basic-plus-cutting-solution...