You can’t print custom-made designs, or use fonts on your computer or anything, so you are really only marginally better off with this software. You see, the Cricut Design Studio requires you to have bought the cartridges that you want to use. There is the Cricut Design Studio, which seems like a handy idea, and likely is in many ways, if you have a bunch of cartridges. surely there is some software out there that can make good use of the cutter, and make it much cheaper to use? Well, there is, BUT………. On the back of the machine, there is a USB port. Locally, You’re looking at more like $60 per cartridge for a cheap one. With postage on top of that (to Australia, makes it expensive). You can get cartridges on amazon from about $25 (pretty cheap) but most are much more than that. The Cricut comes with very minimal usability out of the box, and requires you to buy ridiculously expensive cartridges. If you saw my previous post, I bought one for my loving wife Diana for her birthday. It looks like a printer, but is more like a pen plotter. The Cricut is a cool little cutting machine, aimed at the Craft/Scrapbooking market. I don’t know if this will work or not, but if someone tests it out, let me know.

One possibility (which is untested) is to buy a licence, and find an old version of the installer. “On a new version of Make The Cut! was released (version 4.1.1) which no longer allows the Cricut Plug-in to be loaded.

I suspected this day would come eventually. NOTE: recently Make The Cut has been updated, and supposedly no longer will support the plugin.

Install cricut expression driver