Brother Scan N Cut - Other - Machine Software Upgrade August 2016 update press release

I was idly wombling around the UK Create & Craft website and clicked on this link HERE

Which I found rather interesting, being a Powerpoint presentation on what differences the newest upgrade makes to the machine. It just should come up in your browser as a PDF type document.

It's a lot more user friendly for an overview than the Release Notes! Well worth a look! Makes it much easier to see what the machine did before the upgrade and what it can do after the upgrade.

Brother Scan n Cut 2 - Machine Upgrades how and why to do it

Ok so. It really really annoys me that I buy something, it sounds cool cos it links to some sort of computer software. Then it's out of date. I'm still sulking about this with my Bernina sewing machine and the embroidery module and accompanying software. There is NO WAY I am going to pay for a whole new piece of software! or even a whole new machine just because they do it differently now.

And this is why I've held off buying an electronic die cutting machine until now. The Brother Scan & Cut sold itself to me, not only because of the integral scanner that takes the guess work out of cutting, but mostly because they've issued Machine Upgrades that (to the extent the hardware allows) means that my (older albeit new to me) machine can do pretty much everything that a brand new one can. No need to buy a brand new one! hurrah!

In a word, future proofing!

This post explains what's in the Machine Upgrades also called software or firmware upgrades, and therefore, why it's a good idea to do it.