#Cricut comparison chart portable#

Not only does it keep your Smart Materials neatly in place, but it trims the roll when your project is complete. The new roller holder is used to help you feed your Smart Materials into the Cricut Maker 3 and is not compatible (or necessary) with the original Maker. Of course, you can use the larger trimmer to cut smaller materials.

#Cricut comparison chart portable#

The new portable trimmer is needed because Since Smart Materials are 13 inches wide, and the original trimmer was only 12 inches. Cricut introduced two new accessories with the Maker 3: a larger portable trimmer and a roll holder. You can use nearly all of the same tools and accessories with both machines, but there are a couple of exceptions. Cricut Maker 3: Different tools and accessories?Ĭricut Maker 3 Loading Smart Iron On (Image credit: Cricut) So technically, yes, you can do wider projects, but only but 0.2 inches. So, the maximum width of projects made with Smart Materials is just 11.7 inches. With 13-inch Smart Materials, the machine needs wider margins to grip the materials itself. With regular 12-inch materials on a mat, you can make projects up to 11.5 inches wide since there needs to be a small margin along the edges. Since Smart Materials are 13 inches wide and regular materials are only 12 inches wide, you may be wondering if you can make projects that are an inch wider with Smart Materials. The power cords are not interchangeable between the Maker and Maker 3. The Cricut Maker 3 has a new power adaptor, which allows for up to 3 amps of output. Plus, the Cricut Maker 3's cutting speed is dramatically faster when using the Smart Materials, easily twice as fast. Because you can make one long, continuous cut up to 12 feet in length, your big projects can go a lot faster than they would if you had to load and re-load your mats. Smart Materials are slightly wider and have a stiffer backing than regular materials, so they can feed directly into the machine without using a mat. Cricut Maker 3: Smarter, longer, and fasterĬricut Maker 3 Smart Vinyl Loading Lifestyle (Image credit: Cricut) It's just the Cricut Maker 3 can allow you to make some items a lot faster and more efficiently with Smart Materials. You would not lose any abilities if you went from the Cricut Maker to the Cricut Maker 3. It's important to note that you can make just as many projects with the Cricut Maker 3 as you can make with the Cricut Maker. Plus, the start button on the Maker 3 has a more logical triangular 'play' symbol rather than a Cricut logo. The metallic stripe around the machine is shiny on the Cricut Maker but matte on the Cricut Maker 3. There are some minimal cosmetic differences.

Functionally the two machines are almost identical, except that the Cricut Maker 3 gets the Smart Materials ability and speed.