How To Calibrate Your Cricut Machine

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Calibrating your Cricut is a normal part of owning your machine and should be done as needed, or right before using the Print Then Cut function.

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I’ll be showing you how to recalibrate your Cricut Explore Air 2 or Maker, with helpful screenshots and some DON’Ts from a seasoned Cricuter.

In your Canvas, select the icon that looks like three horizontal lines at the top left of the screen to expand your Cricut menu, and select ‘Calibration'.

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How To Re-Calibrate Your Cricut

First, you’ll need to Print the calibration sheet with your printer, and then place the sheet with the squares and lines facing UP on a LightGrip mat in the upper left corner of the mat.

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Press the green ‘Continue‘ button and load the mat in your Cricut machine.

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Your Cricut will begin cutting on the sheet of paper. It will start with the center square and move to the lines at the top and right of the paper.

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Design Space will ask you to examine the lines at both the top and along the right side to determine which cut was the most accurate.

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Choose the number and letter that hits the center of the line BEST, and click the green ‘Continue‘ button.

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Your Cricut will then finish calibrating by cutting out the larger square in the center of the piece of paper.

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