Craft Robo Lite CC300-20

A new Craft Robo model has recently become available called the Craft Robo Lite (model CC300-20). It’s basically a more portable version of the Craft Robo II.

As I understand it, the Craft Robo Lite is a very similar machine to the Craft Robo II, with a few important exceptions:

• It doesn’t have the optical eye which allows print and cut operations – the ability to print a design and then cut around the outline to create a coloured die cut or decal.
• It cuts a maximum length of 300mm or 12 inches as opposed to the Craft Robo II’s ability to cut designs up to a metre in length. (This probably isn’t a concern to many scrapbookers.)
• It cuts a little slower than the Craft Robo II – 70mm per second as opposed to the Craft Robo II’s 100mm per second. (To be honest, I rarely cut at the Robo’s maximum speed anyway, since cutting at lower speeds provides more accuracy and minimizes the possibility of the Robo’s blade tearing your design in mid cut.)

The Craft Robo Lite also boasts the following new features:

• SD memory card slot to save and store designs. (Eliminating the need for the machine to be connected to your computer during cutting!)
• LCD screen to view, resize and send multiple copies of a design.
• Latest version of the ROBO Master software including offset and welding functions. (Offset means outlining. Welding means joining…as in joining letters or other objects.)
• New carrier sheets with grids for easier positioning.

Note that the latest version of the software and the new carriers sheets are also compatible with earlier Craft Robo models (the original Craft Robo CC100-20 and the Craft Robo II CC200-20).

At the time of writing the Craft Robo Lite is priced at approximately AU$399 which should place it in firm competition with cutters made by other manufacturers such as the cartridge-based Cricut and Making Memories Slice.

(The Craft Robo cutters have dropped dramatically in price, considering I paid around AU$900 for the original Craft Robo model when it first became available here in Australia a few years ago.)

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