Cricut machine. Why isn't it cutting the design properly?

Cricut Explore Air 2 helps in cutting the beautifully intricate designs using the compatible cutting machines. However, in some situations, you can get the problem where you will not able to use the mat. In this situation, you first make sure you are following the right guide to load the mat, check if the mat is compatible with your Explore Air 2 machine, or your device is not facing any problem.

To get rid of this issue, you have to reset all of your devices and set up the machine once again. Also, check if the mat is not damaged, refer to the Cricut crafting guide for using the mat, use the compatible mat, and more. You can also connect to the Cricut customer support team to get more info from professionals to resolve the issue.

If your Cricut machine is not cutting all the way through your material, or is only scoring the material, choose a machine below for specific troubleshooting tips. Fortunately this issue can usually be resolved with basic troubleshooting.

• Cricut Explore
• Cricut Personal, Cricut Create, Cricut Cake, Cricut Cake Mini, Cricut Expression
• Cricut Expression 2, Cricut Imagine
• Cricut Mini

correct cut settings.

Remove the blade housing, then remove the blade and ensure that there are not any bits of paper stuck to the blade or lodged inside the blade housing. Ensure that you replace the blade housing correctly into the machine. Once clean, test your cuts again. If the blade and housing are already free from debris, or cleaning it did not help, proceed to 3.

Try an arm buoyancy test: gently press down on the black arms that surround the blade housing and then release them. Do they bounce right back up, or do they stick or rub in any way? If they stick or rub, please contact Customer Care through one of the options below for further assistance. If they bounce right back up when released, proceed to 4.

Increase the machine pressure settings and try your cuts again. If this does not change the cut result, proceed to 5.

Increase blade depth by turning the dial at the top of the blade housing. If this does not change the cut result, proceed to 6.

Perform a Hard Reset on the machine. If this does not help, proceed to 7.

Check your machine's firmware version. If the firmware is not up to date, perform a Firmware Update using Cricut Craft Room, a Gypsy device, or Cricut Design Studio.

Retry your cuts with a new blade housing.

If the machine is still not cutting through materials, or is only scoring the paper, please contact Customer Care through one of the options below for further assistance.

Forced Firmware Update on the machine through Cricut Sync.

Retry your cuts with a new blade housing. If the issue persists, proceed to 8.

Attempt a Format and Restore on the machine through Cricut Sync. Please note that this step should only be taken if all other steps have failed to resolve the issue.

If this does not resolve the issue, please contact Customer Care through one of the options below for assistance.

new blade. If this does not help, proceed to 5.

Adjust/increase the Multi-Cut setting in the Cricut Craft Room cut preview screen and retry your cuts. If this does not change the cut result, proceed to 6.

Retry a cut using a new blade housing.

If the machine is still only scoring or not cutting through the material, please contact Customer Care through one of the options below for assistance.

Search cricut.com for support faq go to expression 2 search format and reset. Watch the video on format and reset and do as it says. Calibrate when it's finished. If this doesn't work re download ccr after deleting it from your computer.

Cricut design studio is no longer supported by Cricut but if you mean Cricut Design Space then this is how you do it. Open and sign in to Design Space select insert images and in the box on the right select my Image sets and then type in Artbooking. Artbooking cartridge will then come up for you to select what you want. all images come onto the mat at 2.5 inches they havent fixed this yet so you have to resize your images. If you want to download the image numbers from the artbooking book which go with design space go to http://thenon-craftycrafter.blogspot.co.nz/p/image-codes.html and download the artbooking book from this lady please join her blog and leave her a message as she does a lot of work all of which she does for free. Also if you youtube cricut design space. or go onto design space in cricut.com

Die cutting is manufacturing a lot of the same shape from a material. You can do it with fabric or wood, plastic, etc. The shapes you create are called blanks and are usually used decorated before they are sold.

It either needs set properly or, if you use it a lot, replace it. They only last so long.

I would just use a new cutting mat if the mat your using isn't sticky enough your paper will move.

I need more information. Are you using Cricut Design Studio or cutting just from the cricut itself. If you're cutting from Design Studio then you need to make sure your letter is within the space of the mat. If there is some hanging off the edge or past the cut line then it will skip over it and not cut it.

Cricut does not accept jpegs. They use their cartridges that come with the machine and others that you can purchase. However if you have Cricut Design Studio you can design your image with the cricut. Any further questions feel free to ask.

1. Make sure your cricut is off when you plug it into your computer via usb.
   
2. Make sure your usb cable is plugged directly into the machine, and not to a usb hub.
   
3. Start up the DS Once the DS is fully loaded, choose HELP > UPDATE FIRMWARE.
   
4. On the cricut machine, hold down the STOP button. Keep holding it down and briefly hold down the power button. Keep holding down the stop button and in about 3-5 seconds, you will hear a beep. That means you are good to go.
   
5. On the "update firmware" screen on your computer, select the model you have and then click "begin updating now"
   
6. Go and read a magazine or make a cup of tea because it takes a while to update. If it goes really fast (no matter how cool your computer is) it means it did not install properly and you will probably have to do it over again.

Hope this helps you.