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Silhouette Electronic Cutting Machine, CAMEO
| Brand | Silhouette |
| Material | Vinyl |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 11 x 11 x 24 inches |
| Operation Mode | Automatic |
| Item Weight | 10.45 Pounds |
About this item
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- The Silhouette CAMEO is an electronic cutting machine that can cut a variety of materials (from vinyl to fabric) up to 12 inches wide and 10 feet long.
- This model improves upon its predecessor with a responsive touchscreen, a handy on-unit cross cutter, and built in accessory storage.
- The CAMEO’s Print & Cut feature lets you cut precisely around designs and images you have printed on your home printer. Perfect for making stickers, printed iron ons, and much more.
- The Silhouette CAMEO includes a 12” cutting mat, a cutting blade, and 100 preloaded designs.
- The CAMEO includes Silhouette Studio, an easy to use but powerful program which allows you to create your own designs using your own fonts and images with your CAMEO.
Product information
| Brand | Silhouette |
|---|---|
| Material | Vinyl |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 11 x 11 x 24 inches |
| Operation Mode | Automatic |
| Item Weight | 10.45 Pounds |
| Print media | Card stock, Fabric |
| Product Dimensions | 11 x 11 x 24 inches |
| Item model number | Cameo |
| ASIN | B00NAX7H8M |
| Customer Reviews |
4.7 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #448,117 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing (See Top 100 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing) #953 in Scrapbooking Die-Cut Machines |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 10.45 pounds |
| Manufacturer | Silhouette America |
| Date First Available | September 2, 2014 |
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The Silhouette CAMEO is an electronic cutting machine for personal use. Like a home printer, it plugs into your PC or Mac with a simple USB cable. However, instead of printing it uses a small blade to cut paper, cardstock, vinyl, fabric and more up to 12" wide and 10 feet long.
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HOWEVER, I use it for the "Print & Cut" feature. Everyday. I like to design and cut my own stickers. And for this it super, super sucks. It has since the original Cameo, and for 2 reasons: 1) The camera on the carriage will only read every other page or so. 2) Even when it does "read" the registration marks, it still cuts a few of the shapes willy-nilly on the page, rendering the whole page garbage. So, in the end, for every 10 sheets of vinyl I print (at about $2 each), I only create 3-4 usable, salable pages. This machine costs me money. It EATS RESOURCES. It feeds off joy and vinyl.
This machine, Cameo the II, lasted less than a year before the camera died. Which is impressive, I guess, when you consider the camera on the original Cameo lasted only 3 months. Remember, I use these about 15 times a week. Probably "heavy use" for this lil plastic hobby machine. In a last ditch effort to make this work, I bought the Cameo 3. It does not work any better for my P&C needs. The camera registers fairly consistently, which is something this older 2 Cameo never could do, but it will NOT cut reliably! I finally gave up on P&C when I bought the Cameo 3, but that's a review for another page...
TL;DR: Cameo 1,2 & 3 are great machines for a simple mom-preneur business. Print & Cut sucks.
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I have been using the Cameo for about two years now. I have used Cameo 1 and now Cameo 2 (more on this in a minute). It works great for occasional vinyl cutting, like decals or HTV. Never fails. And I love this touchscreen version just as much as the original. For this purpose I'd give it 5 stars. But that's not what I use it for...
IF YOU NEED IT FOR "PRINT AND CUT" ONLY, THINK TWICE. It has a feature (Print & Cut) where a wee camera on the blade cartridge will read registration marks and "know" where to cut your pre-printed designs. I have a side business cutting custom printed vinyl decals (stickers). I use Silhouette Connect for Adobe Illustrator and a Business Edition of the software to make sure everything is just right. I print onto 8.5x11 vinyl sheets and expect this machine's Print & Cut feature to cut out the images along predetermined lines. And this is why I hate this thing. It is unreliable. I don't know if it's the camera or the software (or hey, maybe my printer!), but I'd say at LEAST 4 out of every 10 prints fails to cut. Sometimes 6 of 10! I have tried the P&C tips found on the internet and my luck has not improved. The fact is that, for whatever reason, this thing just can NOT reliably cut even 60% of the time. And when it does decide to cut it will randomly cut some shapes on the page way out of registration. I can sit for an hour working with this machine and only finish about half the decals I should be walking away with. It's costing me a lot of time and money.
When I first created my decals 7 months ago, my original Cameo refused to P&C anymore after only 3 months. It suffered a few weeks of spotty use until one day stopped reading the registration marks altogether. As if the camera died. This was after more than a year of flawless use cutting normal vinyl decals (where no camera functionality is needed). I got this NEW AND IMPROVED machine to replace the ol' girl. Out of the box, it failed to read 3 of the first 10 prints! I guess the one thing I can say is that it performs consistently. It FAILS CONSISTENTLY.
I will not be buying a third. The volume of decals I need to create is only increasing over time, so I'm forced to look for a more advanced solution, either a professional machine or a professional shop. It is clear the good people at SIL never meant for you to use P&C more than once or twice a year.
So in summary:
Home decal hobbyist? Bored mom? This is your machine!
Slightly-caffeinated Graphics Professional attempting to cut 30 pages of 8.5x11 vinyl decals a month, relying solely on the Print & Cut feature to fargin' CUT? Good luck.
The Silhouette software program can be dowloaded for free from their website, and I suggest checking it out before you make a decision between the two machines. The software was exactly what I was looking for, so I ordered the Cameo. It has more of a learning curve because of all the features, but after a few Youtube videos and playing around it was very easy to figure out and use. I read and heard horror stories about how finicky this machine can be when it comes to cutting. (Having to shine an extra light into the machine, going over the registration marks with a marker, etc.) The first time I decided to cut, I watched a Youtube video on how to calibrate the machine (very helpful, and a must), then I cut my first set of stickers. Right away I got the error message that the registration marks could not be read. I went over them in marker and set up extra lightening, like I read about. Still wouldn't work. That's when I started to wonder if I made the wrong decision. I watched a few more videos and decided to try cutting without the mat. First cut worked like a charm!! The suggested settings for the sticker paper were entirely wrong, so I had to fiddle with them, but it didn't take long to get the perfect cut. Since getting the machine a few weeks ago, I've had a few more instances where I get the error message and it cannot read the registration marks. It seems like if you mess-up or cancel cuts, the machine has a tantrum and you have to turn it off and reset it, but that's the worst problem I've had. I highly recommend this machine if you are willing to be patient and learn how to use it properly.
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The Silhouette Cameo 2 - takes some time to get used to, especially all the different cutting speeds and the cutting depth, which materials it will cut, for example vinyl, if you cut too fast or too deep it rips it and makes it all stick to its self and makes a right mess of the blade!!
The good thing about the Cameo is you don't need cartridges or die's like you do with the cricut and sizzix machines, there are so much more things can cut. The cutting mat is quite big too and fits A4 on well, you just have to set the cutting size so it doesn't try cutting over the edge of the paper!
The down side is that you have to set the cutting depth manually rather than a dial on the machine like the cricut or over the computer. You are given a little round plastic ring to attach on the end to twist the blade depth.
Overall the cameo is great for the crafter, and the seller was selling this at a fantastic price!! Couldn't resist!
The product itself is very good. I have a background in CNC machining which has a bit of a learning curve, but the cameo software makes everything super easy so you don't really have to think about it. Great for cutting vinyl, but cutting card can be hard on the blade and you may need to clean out the paper dust from the blade. I bought the pen set which is surprisingly good, but I found that printer paper is very thin and sometimes won't be gripped properly by the rollers, but this has only happened me twice.
All in all a great little machine for the money.
I didn't have to pay import fees as it came from within the UK, so I'm very happy!
Only one slight thing: from supermart USA it came with an American plug not a UK suitable one. So I did have to order another, I suggest you buy http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IPVRFD6, which works perfectly.

















