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Furthermore, do you need cartridges for Cricut Explore air?

So, for real, using the Cricut Explore Air 2 machine DOES NOT REQUIRED CARTRIDGES. You can plug your cartridges into the machine and link the cartridges to your Cricut account so that those images that you already own show that when you search for an image with Cricut Design Space.

Subsequently, question is, what Cricut uses cartridges? The newer machines, the Cricut Explore series and the Cricut Maker, can absolutely still use any cartridges you have purchased from Cricut. However, first you have to link them to your Cricut account, so you can access them online through Cricut Design Space.

One may also ask, do Cricut cartridges work on all machines?

Nearly all Cricut cartridges work on all of the Cricut machines, which include the new line of Cricut Explore machines. On an important side note, all the new Explore machines use the cartridges to “link” to your Design Space account; you only use a physical cartridge once in the Explore machines.

Which Cricut does not need cartridges?

The slightly longer answer is: You don't need to use cartridges or dies with the Cricut Explore series of machines, but you can if you want to. If you had an earlier model of Cricut, you may want to use your cartridges and you actually still can!