How Does Cricut Jukebox Work With DesignStudio Software?
Provo Craft's Cricut line of personal electronic cutters accepts the company's line of plug-in cartridges, making it possible to cut and print fonts and graphics for crafts, cakes, classrooms and collectibles. To give you access to your cartridge library instead of only one unit at a time, Provo Craft introduced the Cricut Jukebox accessory. Working with the PC-based Cricut DesignStudio software, you can use Jukebox to mix elements from multiple cartridges in your designs and cut them without switching cartridges.
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Cricut
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Each machine in the Cricut line of personal cutters uses a motorized, electronically guided blade to help you create graphics and type for decorations and crafts from elements stored on proprietary digital cartridges. You can weld elements together to cut them out as unified shapes and customize the look of cartridge contents. On its own, each Cricut machine accepts one cartridge at a time via a directly cabled connection, but the Jukebox lets you work with more than one cartridge simultaneously.
Cricut Jukebox
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The Jukebox accessory accepts classic Cricut cartridges -- not the next-generation plug-ins manufactured specifically for the Cricut Imagine printer/cutter or the Cricut Cake cutter -- although both these newer machines also accept the original cartridge line. Each Jukebox holds up to six cartridges, along with their handbooks and overlays. With special cabling, you can daisy chain as many as three Jukebox units, thereby placing up to 18 Cricut cartridges in service at one time.
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Other Jukebox Features
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Each Cricut Jukebox provides storage for the reference material and cutting aids included with the cartridges you plug into it. Each Cricut cartridge comes with a handbook that serves as a printed reference to the fonts and graphics available within its set of elements, and an overlay that fits over the keypad on the Cricut to show you which keys trigger which elements.
Cricut DesignStudio
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At the time of publication, the Cricut DesignStudio software runs under Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It requires at least an 800MHz processor, 512MB RAM, 100MB of available hard drive space, an optical drive, a USB 1.1 port and a video resolution of at least 1024 by 768. It allows you to mix and edit elements from multiple cartridges in one design, and shows you the contents of all Cricut cartridges, including those you don't own.
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