Cheapest Brother Cut and Scan machine

I have an older version of what Brother offers now. If your stamped image has a good, solid outline, it will usually cut your stamped image well. If it is extremely detailed, without a single solid outline, it will cut it to ribbons. You can trace a solid outline around your detailed, feathert stamped image, using a pencil, then it will cut out well. Then erase the pencil line if any remnants show. I hope that makes sense.

I like my Brother Scan N Cut. However, I also use my Silhouette for cutting out stamp outlines, and do the “cut first, stamp second method.” It takes more time to set up, but if it’s a stamp set I’ll be using a lot, it works well.

My Scan N Cut does well for a lot of my stamps, and I do like it for that. It’s cheaper than buying matching dies, and besides, I have a lot of stamps that I bought long before there were matching dies for stamps.

I'm using my Silhouette Portrait (the original version) to do stamp and cut. There are quite a few steps involved to do the pixscan but once you get everything set up it cuts perfectly.

I've used the Brother in the past (didn't own it, used my friend's) to do this and my experience is like scrapnnana. If the design is not a good solid outline it will not cut it right.

I had (and still have) a Silhouette Cameo. I could never get the Pixscan to work well or consistently. I found that I had to take my photos in really good light, which in my case, was outside on a sunny day. That frustration is what led me to save up and eventually spend the money to also buy the Scan-N-Cut.

Even with the Scan-N-Cut, you need good lighting to consistently get good results. I finally swapped out the bulbs in my craft room for the much brighter daylight bulbs, which made a big difference. I still have an occasional stamped image that won’t cut right, but you can usually tell ahead of cutting, whether or not there will be an issue.

If I am going to use a stamped image a lot, though, I scan a fully colored image of it with my scanner, and turn it into a Silhouette cutting file to print and cut.

However, I do love having the Scan-N-Cut for cutting out my stamped images, and I have a huge number of stamps that don’t have matching dies. That was why I wanted the Scan-N-Cut in the first place. I started stamping, and have been collecting stamps, long before matching dies for stamps ever became an option. In the long run, it was worth the cost of the machine for me.

The Scan-N-Cut is also a more affordable option than continuing to buy matching dies. The Scan-N-Cut will let you determine the width of the border, or even if you want no border cut around your stamped image. You don’t have that option with matching dies.

It is a good machine, and great for stampers.