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dr_fivehead

Making stickers without printer?

Design Space Question

I do not have a printer of any kind, and someone asked me to make stickers. I have sticker paper already (received with the Cricut as a gift and never used) so I printed some test images off at work and brought the sheets home to try to cut them out. I want them to be exact, so using my phone and manually making the shapes in Design Space isn’t working out. My question is, is what I’m trying to accomplish even possible? Or do I absolutely need a printer to make printed stickers?

Posted Apr 28, 2022, 12:49 AM UTC

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sierrasquirrel•

So when you make stickers with print then cut you need to calibrate your machine to work well with your printer. If you can print a few calibration sheets at work and print all your future stickers on the exact same printer with the same settings then it is possible, but there’s a high chance you’ll run into some problems with cutting accuracy.

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1ofeachplease•

You would need to upload the the design in Design Space - that's how the Cricut knows what to cut. It prints a black border around everything that it uses to calibrate the print.

You could make the design in Design Space, print it to PDF through Design Space, print the PDF at work, then cut it at home.

But print and cut is finicky, and I find I have to calibrate it every time I use it, or the cut is off slightly. And that uses the printer and Design Space together so it wouldn't be possible to do it without a printer.

If your friend has a printer, could you either bring your Cricut and a device with design space to them, or could they bring the printer to you? Or do you have the kind of job where you can bring your Cricut and work on it there?

If that won't work, you could try the PDF method and hopefully it will be accurate enough without calibration.

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dr_fiveheadOP•

This is exactly what I ended up doing and it was perfect! I created the design in Design Space, printed to PDF, emailed it to my work email, printed it at work (word to the wise: the sticker paper works best in the multipurpose tray on big office printers), brought it back, and cut it out. When I was ready to cut, I had to click “I’ve Already Printed” to get past Design Space wanting me to print, and then it started. It spent a good minute to minute and a half going over the paper before cutting but it worked beautifully in the end. Thank you for your help! Hopefully this helps someone else down the road.

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Stevie_sub•

As far as I know, the cricut won't know where to cut unless the printer being used is synced to the cricut.

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