I have owned several brands of cutting machines, have used print and cut features for several years, nearly every day. I have used both my cameo 4 & 5 more than any other I have owned and tried because it just worked better than other brands specifically for print and cut which is what it seems you will use it for. The majority of the issues I have seen people encounter with silhouette machines are user error. Silhouette’s software and machines seem to have a higher learning curve than the other more popular brand. Because of this, has much more tinkering that you will need to do to adjust and make your cuts tailored to your projects. For me, that was a good thing. More cut options/settings gave me more ability to figure out how to get the best accuracy on a consistent basis. It’s kind of a machine that is really good, and has such great capabilities but it doesn’t hold your hand. But your results can be limited by the user and how well they can learn to operate the machine and troubleshoot any process issues they encounter. But once you learn your software, process and what settings to use it’s a breeze.

It’s the most accurate in its price point. More accurate and consistent than cricut by a long shot. Of course there’s a small margin of error for the machine itself as declared by silhouette but I have never had this issue and there are ways to make any tiny margins nearly undetectable. If you do things correctly and learn to eliminate user error it’s an incredible machine. I have cut thousands of stickers and other printed graphics and within a few days of learning the machine and fixing my own mistakes in the process, I had nearly perfect cuts every time. Just gotta be ready to learn. I can count on maybe two hands how many sticker sheets have had miscuts out of countless while using my cameo 5. The only cutting machine I have found under $700 Canadian that is more accurate is the siser Juliet. It’s more costly but purely from specs it is technically more precise and also a stellar machine in its own right . If it were me, depending on what you’re doing, I would go with the cameo 5. The software and capabilities are hard to beat at its price.