How To Calibrate Your Cricut Maker and Explore Air 2
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- It's so important to perform some basic maintenance on your Cricut machine from time to time to keep it performing in tip-top shape. So, you really need to know how to calibrate your Cricut. It's so easy to do, and this video will show you how. Whether you need a Cricut tutorial about how to calibrate your Cricut Explore Air, or how to calibrate your Cricut Maker, we show you both in this video! You will learn how to calibrate the fine point blade, how to calibrate the knife blade, and how to calibrate the rotary blade.
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So glad I found your video. I’ve had my cricut for 3 years and the cuts starting messing up last month. I don’t use it a lot but was contemplating purchasing another one. Now I don’t have to. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
This made a huge difference. I didn't even know that it was possible. Thanks so much for the great instructions!
Thank you so much, I've tried this a couple of times before (when I first got my Cricut) with no luck. I don't know what I was doing wrong before, but your video walked me through it and it finally worked! Thanks again!
Glad it helped! You're so welcome!!
Thank you so much! My current project is cutting off, I'm working on the calibration now, thanks to this video! Very helpful.
did it work??
So happy to find out you can calibrate for print and cut. Had a problem with the cut on some stickers with black outline, Can't wait to calibrate and see how it cuts, Thank you so much!!
I never leave comments but this video saved my life and my cricuts life tonight
I just found this video and I found it to be super helpful and it was so easy to follow along with you! Thank you so much! 😊😊
So glad it was helpful!
OMG !! what a difference it only took me 10 minutes once I print out the template thank you so much for sharing it makes a lot of difference.. It was so easy to understand you thank you so much for your patience wonderful..
Our pleasure! Thank you for watching!
This helped me soooo much. I was super frustrated with how it cut my Disney princesses. The cut was wayyy off. And I literally went researching and came across your video. Thank you!
I did not know about calibration for the blades. No wonder my last fabric cut was a little funny! I knew it is needed for print then cut, but chose to do it “later” when setting up my machine. So looked for a video on this subject by MGL. I just don’t enjoy the constant “adverts” for your subscriptions, but your explanations and teachings are terrific! Gotta go calibrate now.😊🤓
Thanks for your kind words!! As for the advertisements, that's how we gain new members thus giving us the money to be able to make over 360,000 of you FREE content :) So we must advertise in all of our free videos so we can continue to make them free! Have an amazing day, sweet friend!
@@MakersGonnaLearn Thank you for the reply. I know you need to do the adverts... and I like that you are “low key” about them (others are annoying!).
FYI, I just now calibrated my Maker for print/cut. It took three times running through (I am in Scotland and we use A4 paper, not 8-1/2 x 11), but it worked!!! Thanks to Becca for such a clear explanation! If I hadn’t found this video I would have checked your website (I am a subscriber). I’m also in the middle of doing the Card Organizer project Rachel taught. I think you and your team have the Gift of teaching. 💕God bless you.
Thanks for including the before and after. Makes a huge difference for sure!
Thank you for watching, Katie! :)
I’ve calibrated mine 3 times and all 3 times my squares, specially the left side.. looks just like the sample u showed! One side is nice and the other has lots of black still ):
Thank you for this video! Kept getting a failure message, wasted SO MUCH material I was about to throw my cricut out the window.
Glad it helped! Thank you for letting us know!
Sameee
YOU'RE AMAZING. I FINALLY CAN HAVE PERFECT PRINT THEN CUT PROJECTS :D
Yay!!!
You have saved my life. I have centerpieces to turn in this weekend and for some reason my images weren’t cutting on the line so I tried about 5 things before coming across your video and it worked. Had to try the test 3 times but finally cut the squares perfectly 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 THANK YOU SO MUCH! The calibration worked 👍🏼 you have truly saved me
Glad I could help!
Very helpful thank you so much !! Works so much better now
Yay!! So glad this helped you!!
Thank you for the very informative video It helped me a lot today!!!!
I couldn't even print out the paper this machine is really aggravating Cricket should have gave us a book on everything on this machine
Thank you, Becca! Love your videos!
Thank you so much for your kind words, and for watching!
Thank you! Off I go to recalibrate
You're welcome!
I finally gave up trying to view the demonstration because of all the chat, chat, chat and that’s the nicest way of saying it.
I have calibrated 7 times, it works fairly well for the calibration but when I actually work on the project the calibration is still off. So frustrated : (
I'm having the same issue. And when I run the calibration there is rarely a cut right in the middle of any of the lines. I've tried to calibrate a dozen times or more and my stickers still cut off
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Question! Is going to calibrate the knife blade going to work with etchers or fine tip blade too
The blade is cutting the whole square out? Why is is happening what can I do? Change the blade pressure?
This was soooo helpful, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
How can I
Enlarge the letters that’s inside the cricket to Measure I cannot hardly see the numbers and letters from them cricket
I have been trying to make labels using Print then cut feature but my cricut Maker won't read the sensor marks. Tried using the calibration page to calibrate, still doesn't read the sensor marks still. Tried it with different lighting, still now working. Any advice?
Hi, thank you very much for the help. In the video, the left part of the paper you used is perfectly aligned with the cricut mat, while the top part is slanted. Does this affect the cutting?
My issue is regular cutting.... I have noticed that my Cricut Explore Air 2 has started to cut one section of any medium, cardstock, vinyl, HTV. The machine I have had for 2 going on 3 years and have used it A LOT. HELP PLEASE...
My machine won’t calibrate. It gives a JavaScript error message before cutting anything. I’ve changed the lighting, I’ve put brand new printer ink in my printer. Do you know why it won’t work?
Do you only need to calibrate if doing print n cut?? What about calibration for non print n cut projects??
a proper calibrated machine can help in lots of other ways than just Print Then Cut :)
Five minutes in and are we about to calibrate here... Bit of a long walk.
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Awesome
Thank you!
this didn't work for my explore air two, I did this three times and it still offcuts.
I usually do it multiple times until I get it perfectly for me it can be up to 11 times
same, i have done it at least 30-50 times. I have no clue why it isn't working.
Me too
What is the rotary blade shape? I have an Explore 3 and a blade came with the Explore 3, I'm new at this
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How do you calibrate for draw and print? I never use a printer
Can you calibrate just to calibrate for a sharper cut?
My calibration keeps going through steps one and two and then it jumps back to the beginning asking me to unload my mat and then goes through steps one and two again. I cannot get it to do the confirmation cut. Any suggestions??
Hi Ma'am, I am having trouble on my explore air 2, when i am calibrating, the machine is not cutting on the calibration sheet, it is only scanning and scanning....
We're sorry to hear about that. You may contact Cricut for troubleshooting.
i have the original explore and there’s no option for that in the optimization. i tried clicking the explore 3 but it wont work
For some reason my explore air 2 never prompted me to calibrate when setting up nor when making my first print then cut. And it cut my first print then cut wrong! Everything was cut to far right and down so I'm going to try this, thanks!
How did it go? I got my cricut machine air 2 today too and been having so many issues with the cut I really wanna give up
@@Mochi-yr1yv great! It cuts perfectly after calibrating
@@Nyantastic2015 mine is still going nuts 😭 I'd get lucky if I have a good cut out ;(( idk what to do anymore
This kind of helped, but I've at least tried calibrating my Cricut explore air 2 at least 30 times. Any ideas on how to help?
if it's still not cutting properly after calibrating and cleaning the sensor to make sure there's no debris in it's way, then we would have to recommend contacting Cricut Customer Service to see what they can do for you.
thank you kindly for this helpful tutorial - hugs
Thank you so much for watching!
please help mine wont line up at all! ive tried more than i can count now what am i doing wrong!!
Wait so you do all of the calibrations for best results? (The knife blade and rotary) sooo you do those too? I tried so many times on the basic calibration and still not perfect
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air2 cricut blade not touching the paper to cut
I have Maker and when i go to calibrate my printer isnt showing up :( help!!!!
Should this be tested machine out of box?
My problem is with glossy photo paper
What is the best print than cut iron on?
Cricut app wont read my printer, just says that there's no printers found, hp deskjet 2300 series please help
Hello! So, this is a printer/wifi issue, we cannot help you. Make sure you're reading the instructions on your printer to properly connect it to the wifi then your device that you're using with Design Space should have no issues connecting to the printer.
Can I calibrate my machine with just an iPad and printer? Or does it have to be on a laptop/computer
Yes ma'am, you can!
@@MakersGonnaLearn I try to calibrate my machine on my iPad for 1 million time and it doesn’t work I need your help plz
What do I do if my machine won’t calibrate? It keeps giving me an error message.
If the design is printed at an angle on the paper would that affect the cut if it is calibrated correctly?
I had a project a couple weeks ago and my image wasn’t completely center to the paper and it cut at a slight angle.
Good thought, but no :) The registration marks prevent that from happening. Placing it "off" would not effect it from scanning/cutting properly :)
My printer is not showing up when I go to calibration ... what could be the problem ? Help :(
Explore Air 2-Do I need to calibrate for each of the printers I use?
Calibration is for cuts, not printers. So as long as your cuts look good, no need to calibrate when switching printers :) Great question, Debbie!
Makers Gonna Learn thank you.
Hello, I need help. What if its cutting inside lines and outside lines?
then calibrating it can help you.
I did this to my machine but it's still not cutting on the lines. What can I do??
Well, how far off is it cutting? Is it close at all? Feel free to re-calibrate it until you see your desired results, but with such little information we can't help you any further.
@@MakersGonnaLearn it was way off! But I continued to play around with it and I got it to cut properly.
Hello!! I think I'm having a bit of a problem with my sensor light on my explore air 2, I don't think it is properly detecting the top and left lines but does it perfectly for the bottom and right line. this is making all my cuts unaligned. I tried to calibrate it multiple times but it still does the same incorrect reading. It wont even cut the simplest of shapes correctly. This problem started on like my third time using it. Any ideas on how to fix this? I tried many things and I'm losing my mind over this.
Hello! So, the only thing I can recommend without seeing your machine in action is to make sure it's clean and there is no debris interfering with the light sensor. You may want to use a paint brush to sweep under there or some canned air? Other than that, I would suggest contacting Cricut Customer Support and notifying them about the issue with your machine. Hope this helped!
@@MakersGonnaLearn OH!! I’ll definitely try that. and if that isn’t the trick then customer support here i come ;-; thank you ✨
Do we need to calibrate if I don't do print and cut?
Not really. As long as your cuts look good on a day to day basis.
What if when I go to print we can’t find the printer in my iPad
You have to connect the devices together. You can look up how to do this online per your printer settings :)
Hey ya. I'm just starting out and am undecided weather to buy a cameo or cricut explore or maker. I'm in England and have watched so many videos but still can't decide. Any help from anyone would be really appreciated x
It totally depends on what you want to make! Us at MGL would recommend a Cricut machine, and while the Maker is the newest and strongest Cricut machine, you may not have any interest in cutting wood or fabric, which would mean you may not need to invest in the maker with its Adaptive Tool System. They're all great machines :)
@@MakersGonnaLearn thankyou so much for your reply I really appreciate it. I'm gonna go with cricut maybe start with a explore air. I'll keep you posted. It looks is much fun and you are all so great at what you do I love watching you and have subscribed x
That's fine if it will let you calibrate print and cut,my maker is only 2 months old,it has'nt let me calibrate it in print and cut at all.
That's very odd...
its not working!! did it like 10 times! numbers never met up with the lines I did it until it said error cant read project! then i gave up :(
My Cricut Maker doesn't have a calibration setting. How do I calibrate my machine?
Here is a tutorial courtesy of the beautiful Ms. Becca. th-cam.com/video/92ZX9H2UGT4/w-d-xo.html
Love watching you guys but your videos are painfully long. I always skip around... 😬
Thank you so much for watching!
I’ve been trying to collaborate my machine for a couple days and it’s just not working
Me as well. I tried printing the sheet from the design space, but it looks different from the one on the help site.
Do u also cameo tutorials
We do not use the Cameo often, but our wonderful membership Makers Gonna Learn works flawlessly with the Silhouette machines as well as many others :)
I’ve done my cricut explore air 2 10 times now and it’s still not calibrated :/ what do I do?
contact Cricut customer support
Makers Gonna Learn ok thanks
Have you had any luck with Cricut customer support? I've honestly lost count how many times I've tried calibrating and it still doesn't work. I'm worried that customer support won't be able to help.
Alana Lipham cricut support didn’t help with anything because since it was only 1/8 of an inch 😭 but try turning bleed off and turn off your lights!! That worked well for me!! My room is just too bright for the sensor to work!
Crazy Aten thank you for letting me know! Unfortunately, I’ve tried both of those things and it still hasn’t worked. Recalibrating it so many times has actually made it 10x worse and it’s now cutting my designs in half.
Your fingernails are lovely.💙
I really needed this video, but there was waaaay too much talking before just getting to the directions. Literally, had to skip through a lot of unnecessary talking just to get to what I needed.
So sad because I don’t have a printer :(
You can find some pretty cheap! Any inkjet printer works great :)
Omg. Just show how to calibrate your machine.
What is wrong with “homemade“? Not everyone wants to sell their crafts. With Provocraft’s record of problem machines, I would not touch it with a ten foot pole.
Thanks so much for watching! We LOVE homemade projects! That's actually what we're all about. However, just because a project IS homemade, doesn't mean it can't look professional! Wouldn't you want your projects for personal use or that you intend to gift to a friend to look the best it possibly can? A proper calibration is sometimes the key to a perfectly executed homemade project, and we wanted to make sure our viewers were equipped with the knowledge needed to calibrate their machine if desired. :)
Thank you so much!
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