Folks with cartridges and a working copy of Cricut Design Studio.Folks with plenty of cartridges and no desire to use a computer.The folks who are getting good use out of the first generation Cricuts today usually fall into one of the following classes: How Can I Update My Cricut's Firmware? Five Ways To Use First-Gen Cricuts.This page and its related page are an attempt to help such users get them out of their perfectly functional machines that the manufacturer has 'written off.' Topic addressed includ the following: So Cricut owners - even some folks who've upgraded - are loath to relegate them to the scrap heap if they can still be put to use. Because the early models were built like tanks, and the vast majority of them are still in working condition. All but one of the abandoned models required cartridges to operate, and Cricut wanted to go to an all-digital technology.īut in a way, Cricut is a victim of their own success.

They are calling them 'legacy' models and refusing to support them in any way. Most Cricut owners with anything older than an Explore realize that Cricut has dropped all support for at least eight previous models. If you feel like you need more background on the models mentioned here, and Cricut's decisions that affected them, check out our article ' Cricut History So Far.' This article contains some definitions, caveats, and suggestions, followed by 'Frequently Asked Questions.' So how useful are they, really? The answer is, pretty darn useful. But most users can't use them with their computers anymore, and Cricut isn't selling new physical cartridges for them anymore.

Ironically, most of those machines still work fine. Race for Family Garden Trains(tm)īetween 20, Cricut dropped anything resembling support for their earlier models.

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