Paper cutting plotter?

I cut paper with our CO2 laser all the time. Quite a bit more expensive than the cricut tho and might not be feasable if your not looking to do large quantities.For small runs or prototype stuff check with a local laser shop or drop me an email perhaps I could run a sample to see if it works with your material, never have cut .012" thick paper before.. Our Universal laser has a 12" x 24" table.

George

My wife does scrapbooking and we saw the Cricut in one of the craft stores here. I've seen low end 24" vinyl cutters for about $600. Initially I thought it would just be a matter of setting the knife to cut deeper, but then realized cutting .004"-.012" paper fibers on one of these would probably be pretty different from .002" vinyl.

The .012" would be nice, but I think .010" or even .008" would be workable. A 24" cutting bed would also be nice, but again, 18" or 12" will work.

I'd like to find a solution for under $1,000. How much are the entry level CO2 lasers?

This is the least expensive that I've seen. 10 Watts isn't much power.

Will

That one is not much of an upgrade from the Cricut, but in looking at their other products, I found this:

Thanks for the help!

She-who-must-be-obeyed (also a scrapbooker, as it happens) has this to say on the joys of Craft-Robo...

Cricut does get used for scrapbooking, and is cheaper than the Craft-Robo, but the Craft-Robo can be used from a PC. It can take A4 paper or card. You can google for Craft-Robo and get their website, or go to these forums on UKS which give you the good and the bad:

Cheers, Pete.