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Hinge technique for cutting printouts

September 22, 2009 by Kay

Shown here with the Cricut machine by itself, here’s a technique that is also helpful with Cricut Design Studio, the Gypsy or with Sure Cuts A Lot. Use this when you need to see in advance exactly where the Cricut is going to cut in relation to the mat. This is especially helpful when cutting around printouts, cropping photographs and any other applications where you want the printing to be perfectly centered or otherwise positioned within the cut.

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Comments

  1. Kim says

    August 6, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    You have no idea, now much time this has saved me. 🙂 Bless you! Can’t thank you enough.:)

  2. Lucy says

    May 14, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    I’ve been looking for a method to do this for the longest time. I have a question…can you do multiple cuts? For example…I’m doing cupcake toppes and I usually have to cut the circles and print the pictures on a round label to put in on. Is there a way I can print my topper pics and cut them out 12 at a time using this method. Thanks so much for sharing 🙂

    • Kay says

      May 14, 2013 at 4:02 pm

      You can do it, but it’s more complicated to get the print file to match the cut file, of course. Cricut creep is another issue. I usually have best results doing about a half page at a time.

  3. Linda Norman says

    July 6, 2013 at 12:09 pm

    cool idea!

  4. Sampheap Say says

    April 6, 2014 at 10:53 pm

    This is indeed CLEVER!!!

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    April 3, 2012 at 12:04 am

    […] guess it’s a poor man’s “print and cut!!”   I adapted a technique from Clever Someday‘s hinge method.  It’s a lot easier with Sure Cuts A Lot than just using Cricut as […]

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    April 8, 2019 at 9:44 am

    […] Here is a wee trick I picked up from the Silhouette School Blog , but I’ve modified it a bit to incorporate a hinge idea that Cleversomeday uses.  […]

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