ScanNCut CM550DX

ScanNCut CM550DX
From Brother Canada

I recently receive an amazing product to review.   This post is essentially to present you the product itself.  In about a month or so I will blog once more about it and present some of the projects I have done with it.

Presenting the Brother ScanNCut CM550DX!

What it is:

ScanNCut is the world's first home and hobby cutting machine with a built-in scanner. It can create outline cutting designs from a hand drawn sketch, original art, or something you saw in a magazine, without the use of a PC. It includes 702 built-in designs, 140 quilting designs, 5 built-in fonts and a built-in 300 dpi colour scanner. The scanner itself will allow you to create sharp and highly personalized shapes for your projects.  Once you choose your design or scan in the image, photo or hand drawn sketch, ScanNcut will precisely cut the shapes or outlines you want. It can cut paper, fabric or plastic at the press of a button- all perfectly. The only thing limiting you is your imagination.

To expand your possibilities, please visit https://scanncutcanvas.brother.com/

The machine is very light and easy to transport.  A lady at our church organize a monthly get-together for women who wants to do some crafting.  It would be easy to bring this machine and use it to make cards and scrapbook pages while being in fellowship with other crafty women.  And don’t forget that this stand-alone machine doesn’t need a computer or software to work.   It will automatically converts your scanned images into a cut data from which you can work.  You can also use the ScanNCut to create intricate designs with easy by using the draw function.

Here’s the information sheet for the ScanNCut machine.

Brother has three models of ScanNCut available – depending of your budget.

CM 100DM Red – 500 Built-in Designs, 100 built-in quilt patterns, 5 fonts, standard mat 12x12, low tack adhesive mat 12x12, standard cut blade, standard cut blade holder, deep cut blade, deep cut blade holder,  high tack adhesive fabric support sheet (2 pcs), iron-on fabric appliqué contact sheet (2 pieces), simple spatula, stylus.   Price 399$

CM250 Purple – 600 Built-in Designs, 100 built-in quilt patterns, 5 fonts, standard mat 12x12, additional standard mat 12x12, low tack adhesive mat 12x12, standard cut blade, standard cut blade holder, deep cut blade, deep cut blade holder,  color pen set (6 pens), erase pen set (2 pens), pen holder, high tack adhesive fabric support sheet (2 pcs), iron-on fabric appliqué contact sheet (2 pieces), simple spatula, stylus.   Price 449$

CM550DX Light Blue – 700 Built-in Designs, 100 built-in quilt patterns, 5 fonts, standard mat 12x12, additional standard mat 12x12, low tack adhesive mat 12x12, standard cut blade, standard cut blade holder, deep cut blade, deep cut blade holder,  color pen set (6 pens), erase pen set (2 pens), pen holder, 50 appliqué patterns on a CD, Cut Up This Book, high tack adhesive fabric support sheet (2 pcs), iron-on fabric appliqué contact sheet (2 pieces), simple spatula, stylus.   Price 499$

On top of this amazing machine, Brother has put together ScanNCutCanvas which is a cloud-based web application that gives you the ability to easily convert .svg files to .fcm image tracing and processing overlapping patterns.   It allows you to expand your craftwork by importing projects that you have created or edited with ScanNCutCanvas into your ScanNCut cutting machine.  The best part is that it is free!

This ScanNCut machine will allow you to do a multitude of projects like artistic journal, fancy boxes, cards, table setting name cards, banners, beverage tumbler, calendar, lampshades, photo stands, pop-up cards,appliqué tote bag and more.   The possibilities are unending!

More project can be found on the official website of ScanNCut

The Brother ScanNCut is available at amazon.com.

 

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Disclaimer: Thanks to Brother Canada for sending me the above mentioned product for review purposes . I was not monetarily compensated for this review. Please note that the review was not influenced by the Sponsor in any way. All opinions expressed here are only my own.