hi and welcome to the Hedgehog Hollow today I wanted to talk to you about the
scan and cut from brother now many of you know that I had the scanning cut too
and then recently there was just kind of cut DX release and I did an unboxing of
a scanning cut live it was kind of a very impromptu like I got it out of the
box I played with it way it was kind of mixed success I've now had it probably
for a couple of months I've really played with it I recently did a couple
of PBS shows with it so I've really really learned about the machine its
accessories the things it can do the things it can't do and comparison to the
scan and cut to so I'm going to kind of give you my thoughts on this kind of cut
DX whether it's worth upgrading if you're looking at purchasing which one
do you buy some tips I've learned along the way between both machines and then
also if you have the scan cut one is it worth upgrading - what / - or a DX and
what's the difference between all of them so let me talk about the
differences between the scan and cut two and the scan and cut DX first of all so
both models that I have are what's called the HSN models so I do not have
the Dino models which means they have slightly less features but there are
perfect for paper crafters so this is the CM 350 we can buy this on Amazon you
can buy on HSN and I will link it up in the video description it's currently on
sale as is the scanning cut DX for the holidays again I'll link all of those
things up and then we have the scanning cut DX this is the 1 to 5 model again
this is the non dealer model now for scanning cut DX can cut much thicker
things then the scanning cut too it also has an auto blade which we do not have
in the scan cup - so this is the blade that we have inside the Machine and
you'll notice there are no numbers on it brought this machine automatically
detects the thickness of whether it's cardstock or felt or foam or any of
those things it or trial it just detects the thickness you don't have to tell it
anything which i think is pretty cool and I haven't had any issues when they
are not cutting all the way through my image
it also has the color scanning the same as the scanner cut to the sky and cut
one only had black and white scanning and I think that's the biggest
limitation of the one so if I had a scan and cut one I would most definitely
think about upgrading to either the scanning cut too or if I can afford to
the sound and cut DX the other thing about the scanning cut DX is you'll
notice how much quieter it is it is noticeably quieter yes it's a little bit
more chunky than the scanning cut tube actually the amount of real estate it
takes up in my craft room it's not that much bigger the width is about the same
it's maybe slightly deeper it's kind of just a little bit more kind of cubie
than the two and so that's kind of the biggest difference that I kind of see
between them and also notice something that I really really like is the
scanning cup DX has a bigger screen and it also has a color screen I think it
has slightly better definition as well and I just find that this is screen is a
little bit easier to work with now the match you had for your scanning
cut to are not going to be compatible with your scout and cut DX they are
different mats so that's another difference you would have to get new
mats you can't interchange like between this
kind of cut one and that's gonna cut - we could interchange our mats the
scanning cut DX also has a rather really a fun feature which you can see right at
the front here which is why I had the Machine open it has these two storage
pockets which I really really like because I like being able to keep all of
my tools with my machine because otherwise I find that they just go
missing so I have this little pouch that came with the machine it kind of has a
few little tools and things in it I can't remember what you get now you get
the blade to put the little holder that you can put the pen in that comes with
it you've got the spatula and then you also have accessory packs that you can
purchase things like boiling packs and embossing packs and actually both of
those packs you can purchase that would work with this back up to but the scan
okati EPS also has a vinyl roll feature that you could only would only work with
the scanning kodiak's I got to use that for a recent PBS make it artsy show and
it was really cool because I didn't have to have a mat I put my vinyl roll on
there it fed all the way through and it did like the proper kiss cut so
it just cut through it's the one layer it didn't cut through my backing just
cut through the vinyl and it worked perfectly without a mat which I just
thought was amazing it's really really cool technology now up until today by
the time you actually watch this video these software will be available for
Windows and for Mac up until now it's only available for Windows which is kind
of a frustration for me and I always had to use Hanna's laptop to be able to use
the vinyl roll feeder I could use the online software on my Mac absolutely
fine and that will work perfectly but the vinyl roll feeling you had to like
download the software for to be able to use that part of the software and I can
only do it on Windows but by the time you watch this video it will be
available for Mac users as well so you don't have to worry about that either
another cool little feature that you get on the scan and cut DX it's a tiny
little thing I just think it's super neat is the fact it has this little tray
at the back that you can pull out so it feeds your mat out really really easily
and then it was kind of slots away again again simple things but just really nice
engineering but me your Mac feeds through really really nicely so you can
see against this kind of doesn't have I mean this kind of comes out maybe an
inch and a half more at the front and once this is open your mat is the same
size so you're going to still need that same amount of room is just your machine
when it's open maybe comes little bit further forward the width is actually
pretty much as I say about the same now with regards to features again it has
all those same features that you used to the scanning of things the other thing I
really liked about this is you know sometimes when you used to if you have a
two or a one so I'm gonna used to scan in and you used to kind of get those
rogue scans that maybe on your Mac net had a mark or it had previous scan and
things and you're like I don't want it to cut that and it was like really hard
to get rid of it's super super easy to get rid of on the new sound and cut the
X if they've really upgraded the internal hardware and also the wireless
functions I think are really really easy to use it comes wireless prepared when
you buy this machine whereas with the skyline cut 2 we had to buy that
Wireless activation card and you can check out the rest of the playlist for
our scanning cuts and I'll pop that now in that top
hand corner and I have lots of like the skyline cut things or my tips and all
those things when I did on the standing cut too and I talked about why you may
or may not want that why this activation car but that's in this and I notice the
other day I turn my machine on it so there's a new update available do you
want to download it and the other night when I went to bed I press yes and by
the next morning it was all done it installed itself it was all wireless and
again that was super super easy and I really enjoyed how easy that was you can
again cut SVG files on this I found the online canvas they have upgrade in it
and it was a little bit easier to work with again and all those files could
just be transferred wirelessly again we were at making artsy we just popped it
onto their wireless network and off we went and you may if you haven't seen any
other sky and cat videos and I made this little kind of reference chart for
myself and what I did was I stamped out the same unicorn image from MFT stamps
and I'd cut it out on my scanning car and then put it on a piece of black
cardstock and laminated it with some labels and I just did it that we have
all the different options of cutting either on the line on this far side over
here and then all the way up to the point to which I tend not to cut any
more than a point to you can also cut your image inside a circle or a square
so you could scan in your unicorn image and then you can say to the scanning cut
put it inside a circle and it will perfectly Center inside that circle and
you can tell it what size of circle you want i which i think is really neat
because when we're die-cutting lots of us struggled to maybe get it perfect and
then you don't have to buy a million basic dies either and the other thing
about this is i worked out if i didn't by around about ten sets of coordinating
dies my machine had paid for itself so that is the reason that I bought the
scanner cap because I can scan in my stamped images and I can cut any kind of
outline a1 or any kind of shape that I want that's in the machine and it's
already done for me so that's why I invested the other thing in this is it
has different types of scanning so again there's different options and it can cut
a lot more material than the scanning cut to so if you cut maybe thicker
materials or you cut a lot final then definitely the scanning cut DX is a
great Sheen the other thing is many people say
to me well my scanner isn't all that great on my scan and cut one almost
gonna cut two now if you have a scan and cut one you only have a black and white
scanning option quite often if you have a sky cut to you may find you switch
yourself to that color scanning option which gives you even
better scanning it's even more detail scaling and it sometimes picks up those
lighter lines and you can kind of do even more options with it as well now
also with using the online software there's an image trace option which
means you can cut kind of inside lines and you can do some really fun things
with it as well again all inbuilt in the DX not so much in the CM 350 so another
thing the other thing I have discovered which you can really help yourself and
it's a super cheap tip is I have started something with my favorite things
extreme black ink ever since I moved to this ink for my
stamping with my scaling hat I have found that I have far far less issues
with my stamping with my scanning rather I have found that my scans are far far
more reliable we use this extreme black now extreme black means that it's a
really really dark black image the other one that works really really well with
your scanning cup is going to be the genic a amalgam ink again a really nice
Angers kind of work with your alcohol markers it's gonna work with everything
those two inks are going to be the best investments if you work with a scan and
cut so again I'll pop those links in the video description and if you want to
kind of you know really play around and if you do have issues with your scanning
I would really play around with using those two inks also double stamp if you
use a stamp platform something like a misty or if you have the Tim Holtz one
or whatever one you work with the Stamper artists all of those double
stamp whether you use these inks whether you have a preference for another ink if
you stamp onto your image twice you just layer up and it just becomes a little
bit crisper again your scanning is going to be better and again if you have an
issue turn on that color scanning if you have your cm 350 if you already have a
DX turn on that color scanning I will try to do a video of how
you turn on color scanning as well we'll add that to our video list so we can add
it into this playlist when it's available
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well that will give you notifications of our videos so that's how that works so
let's think about okay I have a scaling cut one I like it but I'm thinking about
joining you to upgrade what do I upgrade to if you have a scan and cut one I'm
going to suggest you do upgrade with scan and cut DX because the DX is
quieter it has better scanning capabilities and the price difference
between a cm 350 and a DX is not huge and right now brother has some amazing
deals and again I'm gonna make sure you've got some links to those as well
it has that auto blade feature as well so whatever cardstock you want to work
with its watercolor paper cardstock vinyl all those things and it has a half
cut option which is really really easy to use as well that's for your vinyl and
things then I think that this machine is just so easy to use it's I think it's
the most intuitive machine that brother has produced and again your screen it
can fold flat so if you have a much smaller crafting area you can just fold
your screen flat and then you can just push it back up when you're done you can
of course do that with your CM 350 as well it's just a little bit different
you have to that's what you have to remember how you do it she says I think
you flip this possibly and then it goes down like this so you can also do that
on here the other thing is there's nowhere to put your stylus and things
when you have the CM 350 but what I really like on the sound hub DX is
you'll also notice you have a little cubby hole in here and this cubby hole
is great because if I had my stylus which I'm gonna grab back it just fits
perfectly in here and sometimes if I'm working with the embossing pieces I put
my extra tools in here so whatever I'm working on I'll pop all of those things
in here if you're wondering what this button does this releases your rollers
so when you're using vinyl feeder or if you're using some of the toolkits and
things that releases your feeder up so that you can adjust these rollers which
will knee if you're using some of those
accessories it also on the side you'll see it has no wrong side on this side
we're gonna turn towards you it has a scanner button on the end here and this
just lifts or puts down your scanner depending on what accessory kit you're
using and it also depends on the height of the material that you're using so
again it just allows for that little bit of flexibility on there as well now if
you have a scanning cut - is it worth upgrading to the scanning cut DX well as
with all of these things it depends if you craft like I do and I'm crafting
every single day I'm sitting here and making youtube videos I'm making cards
and doing all those things and yes for me it was worth upgrading to the
scanning cut DX I like the fact of how quiet it is if you're a nighttime
crafter and you craft when the kids have gone to bed maybe when the husband's
gone to bed and you know noise is an issue because Greg used to moan how
noisy this was when he was playing his xbox because it disturbed his game then
he's throwing his arms laughs at me behind the camera uh-huh then yes this I
was so surprised how quiet it was this is quieter than my cricket it's part of
the my silhouette it's a whisper whisper quiet and so I really liked the fact of
how quiet it is so for me that was a huge selling point I always liked the
fact of how the auto blade because sometimes I really struggled to get the
right settings for the fact that I cut watercolor paper and then I cut Nina and
then I might cut my bristol smooth and then I cut vinyl and then I cut these
beautiful handmade papers behind me and every time I had to find the appropriate
settings with the auto blade in the DX I didn't have to do that so for me the
investment was definitely worth it and I bought all of these machines my money
brother did not give me these machines I do so I did some work with rather but I
bought these machines so I have no kind of vested interest in whichever one you
buy you I am giving you my honest opinion on why I think each one is
better so if you have a scan and cut two and you just use it occasionally might
be for your die-cut if you always use the same paper and you just have a
favorite then I think you probably wouldn't want to upgrade to the DX
unless you really really want to if you love having the late
machine then by all means and as always we have a crafty sales group on Facebook
check the link in the description I'll put that there - we posted was the
latest offers and we have a hedgehog color newsletter we send out on a Friday
again we put the latest sales in there so if there's a huge savings and
discounts on a machine we'll make sure they are in there as well so you can
keep your eye on those and we send them out to you and but if you're crafting
all the time or a night time crafter if you're changing up things if you're into
your mixed media and you want to have to cut thick of things then absolutely this
kind of cap TX is amazing if you're huge into your vinyl maybe you have an Etsy
store or you do craft fairs or you just love cutting vinyl scan and hub TX is
amazing particularly with that extra vinyl roll feeder also I should mention
that our Dena models so if you have a brother embroidery machine and you want
to be able to cut out your Moyer files then you're going to need the dealer
model that's the difference the dealer models interact with the embroidery
machines they have some extra features in there if you're a paper crafter and
all you want to do is stamp some images and you want to cut them out or you want
to cut the odd SVG file which are those fab cup files you see around then the CM
350 or the DX 1 to 5 is absolutely perfect and all of those accessory packs
that the binaural feeder the embossing pack the foiling pack which I cannot
wait to show you the projects I did for makeup artsy with those fab would be
absolutely fine for you as well so if you have any questions leave them in the
description in the comment section below or you can leave them on the blog as
well the Hedgehog College of comm and links are in the description to the blog
post that goes with this don't forget to check out those links the video
description below as well and I've also of course put links throughout this
video to the playlist and other scouting Hut videos that I've done as well and
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