Vinyl Cut Through

You may need to increase the pressure settings 2 3 times by increments of 2 4 to see a change in the cut result.

Vinyl cut through.

This tutorial will show you how to cut vinyl using cricut design space which is the cricut design software used for all newer cricut models cricut explore explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker if you have an older cricut machine that uses cricut craft room the software looks different from design space but the basics are the same. If you ve just replaced your blade and are having this problem you probably have the wrong blade. When you start cutting select the default material that is closest to the material you are using. Refer to glitter vinyl kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings a kiss cut goes through the vinyl film and leaves the liner intact.

This is a really great place to start. Open the manage custom materials page through the account menu and increase the pressure for your material setting by 2 4 then perform a test cut. Select images and size and load the mat into your machine. There are times though that it might cut too deep cutting through the paper behind the vinyl or too shallow not cutting all the way through the material in some or all places.

Vinyl lettering includes lettering numbering or shapes that are individually cut out from a sheet of solid colored 2 mil vinyl and then pre spaced and placed onto pre masked transfer tape the number of transfer tape sheets used will depend on the size of your vinyl lettering and amount of colors used. If your cricut cuts through the backing there are usually one of two possible issues.