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The question is, did Cricut copy Leigh-Anne with their sticker printer?
First of all, this machine is very quiet.
Okay, it is done and here are the results.
Did Cricut do it better than Leigh-Anne?
There are aspects to both sides that I like better than the other.
Y'all, we have a lot to talk about.
I know that you have seen the comments
because I have seen them as well.
Did Cricket call?
Leigh-Anne on their machine.
And in today's video, we're going to do some investigation
and we're going to compare these side by side,
head to head comparison and figure out, did
they copy? I'm not sure.
And if they did, which one does it better? Because we want
to make sure that you are spending your money
on something that is quality, that's going
to give you the results that you want.
So if you're ready, make sure you stick around
to the end to figure out which one we really grabbed.
toward the most, but without further ado,
let's go ahead and break it down.
The first one we have,
we're going to start out looking at the Leanne Hicks Cut S1 Photo
Sticker Printer. Y'all, that is a lot to say.
I have the box down here. Now, I have just
unboxed this. I've not really done anything else
because I want to look at this machine
all the way around and compare this one to the Cricut.
based on how it is put together.
So let's just go ahead and let's look at
all of the different aspects
of this Leann photo sticker printer.
Now, the first thing that you notice
with this sticker printer is that the cutter,
the cutting apparatus is actually open.
There isn't a cover that goes onto that.
And it does have a little bit of an angle here.
So that is going to be a little bit different
on the Cricut machine.
But overall, when you look at these side by side,
After taking off this
This front piece, I am noticing that they are very,
very similar into how they are put
together here.
So just starting out,
I want to really compare and I just want to bring you all the facts.
I'm not making any speculation on if Cricut.
did actually copy. We're just going to look
at everything objectively. So first thing,
looking at this cutter, this is the fine point blade.
I'm going to lay this one here. So this
one goes with the lean. And then moving over here,
the way that you take this out and this clamp
looks extremely similar to this clamp.
Now I do notice that there is this little thing here and
there's not on the Cricut.
It looks like there is a smaller kind of area here, but taking this one
One out and laying.
Putting it side by side next to the lien,
the only difference that I'm seeing is Cricut
has this little exclamation point in the triangle actually
on the blade, whereas lien has it
right here.
But when you're looking at these blades, y'all,
that is the only difference that I'm seeing
between the Cricut and the Lian.
Now putting them both back in,
it seems like they both kind of have like a, some type of
a magnet like apparatus that they kind of just like fit back in there.
That one maybe not as much, but they do go in there.
Now, I don't know if you all knew this or not, but we did a comparison.
We actually bought the Leanne machine.
This has been like months ago and Tanner did a video on it
and he did not like it at all
to the point that when he was trying
to figure out how this worked, this clamp right here
actually ended up breaking.
I don't know what he did, but we ended up sending it back.
But so far, these do look very similar.
I will say, I do think that that might've just
been a little bit of a Tanner issue,
Knowing how this went together and I will say this kind
of has you have to push this in it does kind of have an awkward
Um, it just doesn't go until you push it
in so that might have been the problem there
But I think that might just also be a user error
So let's continue to compare these two machines
and everything that we got
Okay, so moving on to how these machines operate looking at
Both of these cords, now I know this sounds so silly,
but y'all, these cords are the exact
same. I actually mixed these up.
I couldn't tell you which one goes with either one because they
were in the same basket together after we unboxed.
So these are the exact same and they fit in both
machines. Take with that what you will, but I am telling you.
Both of the cords for both these machines are the exact same.
Now, the power button is on different areas.
So, for the Cricut, it's here on the top.
For the Lian, it's here on the side, just letting you know that.
Now, it is on the same side of the machine,
not that that isn't a big deal, but I also
want to look at this side.
When we are looking at composition of the machine,
they look very, very similar.
Both these areas here,
this is where you are going to put your ink, and let's go ahead.
You can see.
We do have the ink installed for both
and there are the ink cartridges for both. Now we have not
printed with the Leanne, this Leanne machine yet.
We have printed with this Cricut Sticker Pix
Print and Cut. That's why they look
a little different is because this one has been used
a couple times. This one has not been used yet.
So I'm just going to let you all take a look,
show you. It actually goes this way and then here,
back front and here. And I'm going to let
you all make your own assumptions from that.
These are the two ink cartridges. Now they do go in.
The exact same way and I hope that I didn't mess that one up just
then. Okay now moving on to the
back of the machine. Now the back of these machines
do look a little bit different whereas the Leanne
has it all enclosed inside this little flap.
Trickett's little thing, this is what you put
your paper in. Leanne's is covered by this door.
Trickett's is not but you take them both out the
And here they are side by side.
Here is the front, here is the back, and here they are
when you open them up. I do also want to note,
watch this, they both fit each respective machine.
I would not suggest you doing this. I'm just making an observation
because you all asked the question, did Cricut copy?
So today we are looking and comparing and just looking at the facts.
So this is how the machine
sets up. You put your paper in here. It feeds it through here.
Looks like the printing is the same.
It's both thermal printing because the ink is the same.
And then on both machines.
It spits it out here on the front and cuts.
Now, the only other thing that we have left to look at
is the material that you get with these machines.
Now, I've kind of switched.
Let's go ahead and put these back to where they were
because I have the material.
Set aside for each one. These are the two materials
that you get. You get photo paper
and you get sticker, photo sticker paper.
So when we are looking at the sticker paper, which we've
already opened the one from Cricut.
I do think it had a Cricut logo up here. I'm not really a hundred
percent sure, but here are the two with the packaging the same.
Here is the backside of both.
And I want you to take a close look
of the backside of both. And here's the front. Now
Now, looking at the photo paper.
You can see, crickets is labeled with cricket.
The lien is not really labeled.
It does have a label down here, but here are the two.
And here is the backside of the two.
Once again, I want to be clear.
I'm just showing you all what we got.
I'm not making assumptions about anything.
I think that we can take fact
and then we can come to our own conclusions from there.
But this is everything that you get,
A full visual comparison of the two machines.
side by side but now I really want
to do a comparison of the software because if you
really want to know my opinion I feel like
the software between these two machines is going to
really determine did Cricut do it better.
So with that being said let's go ahead and hop over and I
want to do I want to do the comparison I want
to get dive into this Leanne software first so we're
going to talk about it I'm going to get it
downloaded we're going to go through the process
In the process, I'm going to print a sheet of
So stickers from the Leanne,
and then we're also going to do the same from the Cricut.
So let's go ahead and dive right into the software.
Okay, so the first thing we have
to do is we have to go to the Leanne app.
I have downloaded this on my phone from the app store,
and I'm going to first start by
adding a printer, and we have the Leanne PicsCut S1.
We also have it turned on, so I turned it on here on the side,
and then here on my phone,
it is prompting me to connect the printer.
Now, I do have to connect it via Bluetooth.
Bluetooth. And as you can see,
I did have one here previously connected, but I'm going to connect
this one currently that we have and then hop back over here to our app.
And it says that it is now connected. So
All I have to do now, I'm looking at the bottom
and looking through this. There are some templates
that it gives us. So these are like minis,
like you could do nail stickers. Curious how that one
would work. But you can see that there are lots
of different options here in templates for pre-done
stickers. But let's go ahead
and see how easy it is just to create from our own. So we're just
going to go to canvas. Once again, it's giving us options.
So I just want to do create new. So
So 4x7 sticker, got it.
All of that is great.
Then I can come down here to templates,
just like really wanting to get a full picture
of what this looks like.
All of these little tiny ones are so interesting to me.
We only got a white sticker paper,
but I'm curious if they have,
this makes me feel like maybe they have clear sticker paper
that you can use in this machine.
I don't know, but here are a bunch of Halloween.
They have some fall into cozy.
Honestly, I was going really fast,
But I'm, ooh, a fall gathering?
Interesting.
I'm not upset with all of, so far,
not upset with all of the options that they have.
These are labels that you can print.
Now, it would only be a 4x7 label, looks like,
so some of these, I'm curious, they look a
little larger than 4x7, but they do have labels there for you.
Decorative stickers.
Once again, I'm just going through
and looking at what they have to offer and just getting
an idea.
Aesthetic.
Okay.
So, these are like different aesthetic stickers.
Interesting.
Many 3D seats.
Scenes. Oh, okay. So you can print like mini 3D scenes
on this and then print the little
things in it. This is interesting.
I actually didn't mean to click on that. So let's just hit
cancel. Planner stickers.
I am noticing that they do have like some Hogwarts, like some,
I don't know if those are like copyrighted
or if they have rights to those, but I did notice that.
But they do have a lot of templates. So back to business.
Let's just see how easy it is to upload,
go through the process. So that was a template.
Then we have elements here. So you can create,
eight new elements. These are editable elements.
It doesn't look like these are anything that you
have to have a subscription for.
They do offer some like for you, inspiration. This is my. So
again, I'm assuming this is your uploaded.
So let's go to, oh, that's an AI lab. Create new.
Interesting. Let's just go to upload.
Max a thousand photos. Older ones get deleted. Okay.
Upload image. We'll go ahead and allow full access.
Let's go to my favorite. Now I have a couple
on here that is just from my phone that I've just uploaded.
So now I want to kind of get into
the adding a text and seeing what that looks like and how the soft,
like how the system works if I
want to add the text with an image.
So let me come down here to text. Okay. I do like that. They have
a lot of cool little options of text here.
Let's do girls with this one and it's generating.
Oh, okay, so it's generating AI tech.
Return to Canvas and wait.
Got it. We will be notified with AI tech.
Oh, I can add decorative lines. Interesting.
I'm curious how these, are these going to cut out a shape as well?
I guess you can add it too. So let's do multi-select.
No, okay, go to check.
That's not really great, not really my favorite
compared to what it was supposed to look like.
So let's just come back over here, multi-select.
So now I've got these two done
and then you have align and you can group them.
Interesting, okay, so don't wanna do that right now.
I wanna come back here to tech, back to the AI tech.
Let's do girls not in this blocky font, girls not.
Generate, we're gonna return and wait.
So you have to select multi-select to be able to do it.
Or you can hit select all.
You can't drag and drop.
Like, I can't take my, like, so what I'm trying to do,
I can't, like, take my finger and select multiple things.
You have to click an element and then go to multi-select,
which is interesting.
You also have layers here.
Let's go to our, once again, this just really isn't it for me.
Like, the AI is.
Working, but it's not working great. Um, but if we added it to canvas,
it's like I don't want I wanted it all on one line
We're just gonna delete. Um, I wanted to go to layers
So the layers shows up on the bottom down here.
Um, and it's not really like a layers panel
It's just forward and backwards.
This is duplicate delete. Those are pretty simple
Um, you do have general shapes that you can choose
from but are they just hollow shapes? Okay
No, they're not hollow shape. But how do you image fill? Okay, so
So you can image fill, so let's go,
let's just do this one, use it, use it.
Okay, so you can fill an image with a picture.
That's pretty cool.
What you would have to do is down here on the bottom,
you have your shapes, colors,
so you can change the shape.
Okay, interesting.
Not mad at that.
And then I can select this and zoom right back out.
Okay, cool.
And then we also have a color fill, but I think if you.
See if you have an image fill.
No. You can reselect and change the image if you want to.
I'm not mad about that. But if you have
an image in it, it doesn't let you fill it with color.
So let's go back to shapes. Color. You can
change the color of the image.
But why is it not changing the color of the outline? Border. Duh.
There we go. Oh, and you can do border weight.
You can do dash. Okie doke. I'm not mad at that.
I think that's pretty cool.
Let's go back to our color.
You can change position.
Okay, so advanced is your X and Y position
and your width and your height.
But then when I go to image fill,
and let's say I select this one again.
Okay, so it still keeps the border.
So I can now change the border color
and the border weight depending on.
And I can really select.
Oh, okay, so you can do a color picker.
So what if I wanted to do a color picker of the red in her bandana?
Do you see up here in the corner?
I really like that.
Confirm.
Okay, I ain't mad at it.
I ain't mad at that at all.
And then what's the back?
Background. So it's colors.
So that's just the background of your sticker paper.
Cool. Or you can make it an image. So let's make it.
So you can like really customize this. This is pretty cool.
But I want to know how do we add a. So I want to add.
Okay. So that adds an outline.
So is that like an offset that it adds to your photos?
It just said border. It didn't say like offset. It just said border.
What is adjust? So adjust is temperature to
Okay so you can adjust your image there. Advanced is the
size. Position is aligned right left. All of that stuff.
Beautiful. Let's add a what is similar.
Okay. So it brings you options there.
Let's add a stroke to do a white border. Maybe we'll do a pink. Okay.
So just playing around with it. We've got a couple of things on here.
Maybe add a couple elements. Let me go back to element.
We add this. I want to see what an editable element. Okay.
So you can just like change the color really. I wonder though.
I'm curious. Can I multi-select these two and group them together?
I'm curious what that's going to do. We'll find out.
Okay, now it does give you the option to ungroup here.
I want to check out the AI lab.
So we did the AI text.
But I'm just, so this gives you fun image generation.
This one's kind of cool.
Oh, so you pick photos.
Interesting, so you just pick a photo
and it says image is being generated.
Okay, we'll see what it does.
Not really sure.
Okay, so it has generated successfully.
We're gonna go check it.
Interesting, add to canvas.
Oh, so it gave me like,
it picked out different pieces of the picture
and gave me stickers for that.
That is, huh, I feel like I wanna play around
with that some more.
This is very intriguing.
So I'm just going to do a, I'm just, we're just going to print it now.
I've got something set up.
I've played around with it, looked at the software,
kind of got familiar with it.
So I'm just going to go ahead and send this to my printer.
So I'm going to hit make it up here, top right corner.
I'm going to hit make it.
And then I do already have my four by seven photo paper loaded in.
Okay.
So it's going to, it's showing cut around the border.
Here's what I want to show you.
So it's showing, do you see this blue line?
It's showing that is going to cut around
the border that I created, but I thought that
the border was going to be what I'd cut.
So I'm just going to click on border.
I'm going to make that smaller.
Oh, that's cutting off the, no, border.
It did say due to machine tolerance
that the border needed to be at least one, but this
is cutting up right against the border that I created.
So we're just going to try it.
And we're going to click cut current page.
It is 4x7, only 4x7.
Yes, I got it.
I loaded the 4x7 properly.
Now, talking about how this works,
the printer is not connected because I bet it auto shut
off.
Y'all, I took too long.
I spent so much time playing around
in the software that this thing auto shut off.
So let's go ahead and connect this thing back together.
Okay, so we are reconnected finally.
We're gonna go to cut, going to the print queue.
And so it looks like it added the other one
to the print queue when I hit print.
So what it is doing now, it says it is printing.
I want to watch and see exactly how this machine does it.
So with the Cricut, it shows it on here on the app.
It's not on this one, but it is doing the same
as the Cricut.
So here it is pulling it through here into
Into here printing it out. Now, like I said the app looks different
It's not showing it like it does on the Cricut
and there is that last layer coming together
She looks pretty good and then coming over here.
It is now going to oh wait just a minute
It added the laminate sheet to must have because it just printed
and then this must be the laminate sheet and let's see how good this
This tolerance is on the cut. First of all, this machine is very quiet
Okay it is done and here are the results of that print and cut.
So that cut got I will say this one
is off a little bit. I don't know you're not going
to be able to tell it from the sheet. This one is
off center just a little bit and actually
so is this one because of that.
Tolerance that it said it had so when I take it off
also clear backing like the Cricut
Do y'all see this right here? It's actually doing it again
Um, so it's not
Perfect by any means
and I don't like the fact that when it said that you can't
Make that offset any smaller.
It says it doesn't recommend it any smaller than
One okay on this one. You can see it too.
So you can see it on all of them
Do you all see how this edged it?
Didn't cut off that backer.
So a border is not an offset on this machine
and you can't go under the,
it'll add an, it will also add an offset
no matter what when you go to print it or to cut it.
I don't know.
Anyway, I have my thoughts.
It's still printing.
It's printing again,
but this is what, how this one turned out.
I actually don't know that this one is off,
which is so interesting.
Yeah, it is just the tiniest bit over here.
You just couldn't see it as much
because of that gray offset.
Now that we have kind of tested
and gone through how the Lian cuts, how it works,
let's move over to Cricut
and see how this Cricut Design Space software for this machine
holds up to the Lian.
Okay, so now that we are here in Design Space, I want to set up a very
similar sticker sheet to the one just
because I feel like it's only fair to do the same comparison.
So now that we are here in Cricut Design Space I want to go ahead
and start with stickers. I want
to do photo stickers and I want to start designing.
Now that's going to pull up my background my 4x7
background and you can see that there are also lots
of templates here in the Cricut Design Space
app. Now I'm not really I don't want
to do a comparison with the templates.
I do know that Cricut is expanding,
so Leigh-Anne probably has a lot more templates.
Currently, Cricut has 358 templates,
so I'm just going to go ahead and close.
I'm going to start with my background.
With the background, we could add whatever.
Now for this one, we have our colors. Now there are a
lot more standard colors to choose from here, but we do also have this.
Now one thing that we don't
have inside Design Space that we did have inside Leanne
is we don't have a color picker. I think
that would be something to quickly add to Cricut Design Space.
really kind of level it up is to have a color picker
for your background. There are patterns
as well that you can choose from.
There are some standard patterns that they have loaded in here
for you. That one's really pretty.
I wonder if they could do something. So that's like a New
York style. That's really pretty.
You can tell it's an AI generated background, but it's still
really cute. Super cute for like a New York trip.
Anyway, back to the background.
Because I was going to do that one photo of mine.
Now there is AI generated.
This is AI generated stickers.
I thought it would be like an AI generated background, but maybe not.
So let's just go ahead and let's go to my favorite.
So this is the exact background that I used for the other pictures.
This is just one of my photos.
And then from there, I'm just going to go here.
I will say looking at these two side by side. So
when we look at the Cricut Design Space and we look at the...
Leanne app. Let's go ahead and go to canvas.
We just want to go to create new. So it does look a
little bit different. So this one does look like
the design space that we are used to. Now, once
again, they have templates, elements, AI,
where Cricut has AI templates. And then images is where
we're going to find like elements.
So they have over 1.6 million images to choose from. Those
Those are included, so all of these you can tell are included.
Now, I do want to say that we do have Cricut Access,
so I'm not really sure.
Let's go to free, just completely free.
So there are a lot less free images.
So there's 15,000 free images for you to use
if you are not part of Cricut Access, looks like.
But you can look at the filter.
You can do purchased, uploaded, downloaded, bookmarked,
AI generated, editable, phrases, contributing artist.
So you can look for specific.
Okay.
So I do really like this, that you can filter,
can we do that here?
So let's go to element.
Is there a way to filter elements?
So we can search element, there's editable element,
and you have inspiration, library inspiration,
and then the ones that you have favorited or generated,
but there is not a filter necessarily over here.
So I do like that there are filters over here,
and I can kind of, if I don't know where I'm going,
I know which way I wanna go, I can look at the filters.
about about all of this but going back to our canvas
and comparing them we do
have upload here now they have
their icons they look like they're themed so
these are Halloween right now
but this is upload same to upload over here on
Design Space you can select
from your photo library you would just go to if
you want to find favorites go
to your favorites here hit this is one that I
used on my other one so let's just go ahead
and get it uploaded and then we
We will remove the background.
Now, on the other app, on the Line app,
I will say that this one had a hard time figuring out what part
of the background I wanted removed.
Cricut did it flawlessly.
I had to go in and do it manually with the Line.
I didn't have to with Cricut.
It knew which part I wanted,
and then we're just going to move it around.
Now, from here, if we wanted, let's see.
So, we have duplicate, delete, more,
select all, arrange, kind of the same, adjust.
This is all going to be the same.
Same saturation.
You're just adjusting the picture.
You can add a filter looks like to the image.
So we're just going to go back to original.
Now tell me how and why that did that just then.
Oh, because it was creating the sticker as it was uploading.
Okay.
That's the difference with Cricut Design Space.
It will take it a minute and then it will add your border to it.
It just takes just a few seconds
and then you can go in there and individually select
Set your thickness of the border you want on your sticker.
And you can change the color.
So borders cutting it close.
A super snug border may cut into your design.
It kind of told us the same thing with the other one.
I think I had a gray.
I did have a gray one on that one.
So let's just do gray on this one.
And then, but what in the world?
I thought I, so you must have to click save.
So 0.8, great.
And then you have to click the,
you can't just click off of it.
I did want that border.
I think I had it at 0.6.
Okay, we're going with 0.65.
So the next one that I had is,
let's click off of that.
So let's do the shape. So we had a circle
and so with the circle you can go to fill. You can do
photos. I'll just do this photo instead of the one
that the other one that I had and then you can
go to the fill. You have to double tap it
and then you can arrange it that way and then tell me why
there's not a border on there yet.
Okay we're just going to let it do its thing. Maybe let that border come back
and then continue adding more
so let's go to off of that go to upload and then
we'll come back when I get these finished
Okay, so one thing that I am noticing,
let's go out of, I want to zoom in.
Cricut Design Space seems a little bit laggy.
I don't know if it's where I am recording on my phone as well.
Maybe my phone is trying to die,
but I'm wanting to erase a small part of this photo, but I
can't, like I wanted to fix this.
So that's one thing that with the lens,
if it doesn't remove the background perfectly,
I can go in there and
and like erase what I want removed,
but I'm not seeing a way for me to like erase this corner
on Design Space.
I don't know.
Anyway, let's continue.
Now back to this circle.
I wanna go to the border
cause I wanna change the border color.
Is it just allowing me to do a color?
I thought that I would maybe be able to do
like a border fill,
but it doesn't look like I'm gonna be able to,
like I kinda would like to have done a,
I really feel like I would have liked to have done a,
Like a pattern on that, but it...
But it's not giving me the option.
I don't like how when I click X or click off of it,
I have to click the yes on it.
And now the border is gone.
So now we've got to click on it again.
Border just allows you to do a color once again.
Not my favorite, but I'm not going to complain about it.
That'll be good enough.
Then we're going to go back.
Then we're going to click, click on that one.
Now with this one, I had an element.
So let's see if we can find an element images.
I had a heart.
So let's just search heart.
I'm going to be honest.
I'm really not a fan of any of these hearts.
Let's see if we can search girls knot.
Heart girls knot.
Let's try just girls knot.
Maybe we'll add this.
Let's delete this. Let's go back to,
because I'm curious as to how this works. So let's
go back to images. Let's just do this. Okay.
So they do have a lot of different, like maybe we'll
just do a flower. I really just want to see how these elements,
how I can select multiple elements
and I can like fit them together in one.
And honestly, I'm not really a fan of any of these
either. So let's see if we can go to our uploaded.
Let's go to uploaded.
Now I will say that this does come over across from your design space.
All of your uploaded images that you have
in design space yourself are in here now as well.
So let's just do heart in my uploaded images.
This one is fine.
And let's change the border to pink.
Do the check, and then I wonder if I can change
the actual, I'm not thinking.
Let's just say I wanted to add a heart here.
It's a lot harder to zoom in on what is going on.
I will say Design Space is very,
it seems very laggy for some reason.
But then we select both of these.
Now we can select, and then we merge the sticker.
Interesting, so it then takes on the shape.
This loses all, so the heart loses all of that color
inside of it, and it takes on that shape.
I don't know. I could either leave or take it.
So we're just going to go ahead and go
with it. We're going to go to make it.
Let's hope that our machine is still connected.
Now I do need to load in my four by seven paper.
We're going to go ahead and pop this bad boy in.
I have loaded all of this stuff.
Now this is giving me, showing me cut lines, which is kind
of somewhat inside the border that it created.
We have loaded materials and we are going to
click go. And now let's see how the Cricut does.
Okay, so it has started the process.
Now this is what the app looks like. Let me go ahead and stop
my screen recording because this is how the app looks like,
which is a little bit different from
the Leanne, but it pretty much print very similar.
So here's our Leanne print. We are going to compare
them now. I do have sizing a little bit different.
There are a few little different things on this
one. This is how it works, what it looks like.
Now it's doing our last layer. Then it is going
I'm going to do the final lamination layer,
and then it's going to cut.
Laminating.
Now, the real test is going to be this cut.
So I really thought that the software
was going to be the make or break
and I do think that it can be the make or break but I think that
maybe this cut. I don't know. I guess we're going to find out.
I feel like the machines sound very
similar and it's done. So let's do a full-on head-to-head comparison.
Here is the Cricut print.
Now my sizing and stuff is a little off.
Okay so here they are side by side. Now they are a little
little bit different. My sizing is not going to be the same,
but let's just take a look.
at the area that it leaves at the top and the bottom
and then let's do a sticker check. That
one did not cut off anything or have any excess.
That one cut pretty nice and it looks like the
rest of them did as well.
So and also just take a gander at the backer both of them side by side
that and there's that. This one do great.
Okay so the question is did Cricut copy Leanne with
The honest truth? I don't know.
I don't work inside Cricut. I don't hear the conversations
they have. Did they see this machine and think,
yes, we can recreate it? Probably. Do I find an
extreme amount of similarities? Sure, I do.
And that's just me being completely honest.
But here is what I do know.
Let's talk about price point.
So price point for the Leigh-Anne
is going to be sitting roughly around,
I think we purchased it, it was 237 or 239 plus tax.
So all in with all of the materials,
one pack of sticker paper, one pack of photo paper.
You get your ink, you get everything.
You're looking at roughly $250.
For the Cricut, for the exact same essentials bundle,
It is $299.
So roughly, you are looking at spending a little bit more,
probably than $50 for this machine versus the Leigh-Anne.
Now, to answer the question,
did Cricut do it better than Leigh-Anne?
Let's just look at the facts.
When we look at the aesthetics of this machine, how it looks
versus how the Leigh-Anne looks, if you want my honest opinion,
I'm going to go this machine
over this one. I just think it looks prettier.
I love the color combination. I love how sleek
the design is. To me, this one looks, I don't know,
I just don't love it as much. And that's
just me being honest.
Are they almost the exact same as far as what they offer?
Yes, but when we're talking about aesthetics,
I'm gonna go this one over this one.
Now, looking at the print quality,
I think the print quality on both of these printers
is pretty much the exact same.
I will state one difference.
On the Leigh-Anne, do you see this little white line on the edge?
On the Cricut, there is no white edge on either side.
So I guess if I have to be nitpicky,
because it's looking like I have to be,
the Cricut wins.
Just a hair, maybe on print quality,
but otherwise they're pretty much the same.
When we are talking about software,
there were things inside the Cricut software that I did
enjoy better. The drag to be able
to select multiple items at one time, so much better.
However, on the Leigh-Anne software,
I had a color picker where I could actually match colors from
the photos that I uploaded.
So there are aspects to both sides that I like better than the other.
I was having a harder time with
with Cricut because it was maybe a little bit slower
but with every photo that you upload with
Cricut it automatically adds a border to it.
It's just going to take it a minute. With Leigh-Anne
you can't add a border until you go to make it
so even though you can add a color border to it
it's still going to cut outside
that and if the color border you cut is not large enough then
it's going to cut the background that you created
or it's going to have a white edge. So
When it comes to actually adding your offsets to your stickers,
I'm gonna go Cricut over Leanne.
When it comes to background remover,
I do think the Cricut Background Remover in the app.
does do a little bit of a better job.
However, in the Leanne app, what I noticed was I could go in
and edit the background or edit the piece that comes out.
And if there was part of the background
that got picked up, it was a lot easier to erase it
on the Leanne software than it was the Cricut
software. So y'all, it just keeps going back and forth.
But when we look at
What is, in my opinion, the most important part of this,
which is the cut, because if your stickers
do not cut properly, they're not going to turn out properly.
It's Cricut. You all saw, and I know it's
just a little minuscule edge to it,
but you can see that the Leanne did not cut properly. Y'all,
it's because this machine has not had the years
that Cricut has had an experience with cut
settings and things like that. And I think that Cricut
just does it a little bit better
because they know how these machines work.
They know how to get that cut precise
and it shows because these cuts were extremely
precise.
So to bring it all back together, did Cricut copy Leanne?
I don't know.
Maybe.
Possibly, I'm not here to, I'm just giving you facts.
I can't say yes or no, but did they do it better?
I would also have to say by about this much,
they did it better.
So you have to decide,
do you want to pay the extra $50 for those precise cuts?
Or are you okay with it being a little bit off?
I don't know.
That's up to you and that is your decision,
but pop off in the comments.
Let me know, what are your thoughts?
Do you think Cricut completely copied?
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