A couple of days ago a friend of mine bought the Cricut Design Studio and was having a hard time trying to install it. She asked me about it and did a quick search on Google to help her.
It turns out I found a number of bad reviews about this software, in several sites including Amazon, of people who felt ripped off! I was taken aback, because I think it’s a great program.
The worst part is, people are giving bad reviews because they were hoping the Design Studio would allow them to cut any shape from any cartridges, if those they don’t own.
Come on, this is just naïve… While I have to admit that the product description in some sites may be a bit misleading, it’s common sense that Provo Craft would not give away all designs like this! People would never ever have to buy cartridges again, than what? They’re still a company and they want to make money.
I can’t believe people really expected to get all cartridges for about $40….
To make things clear once and for all: you can only cut shapes from cartridges that you OWN!
So yesterday I wrote an article and submitted it to goarticles. It’s pretty much a short review with a note explaining this confusion, so maybe future customer will read it and buy the software for the right reasons.
You can read it here, or leave me a comment if you think I left out something important and I’ll edit it later.
Hi, I recently just purchased the cricut design studio.While I am still on a learning curve so far I think it is great. But I must say it took alot of research for me to find information on exactly how the cartridges worked with it. I am still trying to figure out if I weld two objects together from cartridges I own.. which cartridge needs to be in the machine or is this not at all possible? Also I was sure I saw a video (cant find it now of course) where the fellow demonstrating turned the on screen mat so it was facing the same direction as the cutter.. if this is possible can you tell me how to do it?
Thanks for posting the article.. wish I had found it sooner..None the less I still love my design studio. I also own a Klic-N-Kut so am familiar with using the computer for my die cut machine.