Legacy machines that aren t being sold anymore include cricut gypsy cricut cake cricut personal cricut expression and the cricut expression 2.
Different types of cricut machines and what they do.
Can be purchased separately as a replacement scoring stylus for all cricut explore machines and cricut maker knife blade drive housing for cricut maker quickswap tools for cricut maker cartridge adapter for cricut maker.
Recently the original cricut explore cricut explore one and cricut explore air were discontinued as well.
Here are the older cricut cutting machines in general order from first to last or see here for what is the best cricut machine.
These machines are no longer supported by cricut.
The cricut explore airis a die cutting machine aka craft plotter or cutting machine.
You can think of it like a printer.
Cut lengths up to 20 ft.
Except that instead of printing your design the cricut machine cuts it out of whatever material you want.
Compact portable and easier to store.
They really are two different machines that each serve different purposes.
You create an image or design on your computer and then send it to the machine.
Turn your ideas into professional quality projects.
In our opinion the joy makes a great addition to the maker but cannot really compete as the best overall cricut machine.
Besides the size the joy differs from the maker in these ways.
Today cricut machines are used for everything from making vinyl decals and iron on transfers to fabric and sewing projects and even cutting cork or other types of heat transfers.