Xyron has been manufacturing a number of consumer and professional products since 1996. The Xyron Personal Cutting System is an electric, portable cutting unit that links manual die-based cutting to digital-computerized printing. It cuts based on books that provide the designs, shapes, alphabets and figures that need to be cut out of paper. The Xyron Personal Cutting System uses computer on-board technology and functions digitally. This system offers consumers more than 2000 cutting options, stored in Design Books. The Basic Font Design Book and the Basic Shape Design Book are included, when one purchases the Personal Cutting System. These books connect to the cutting system through an integrated docking station. Every element in the design book can be cut into three respective sizes. Hence, if there are 30 designs in the book, in the true sense, one actually has access to 90 different designs. Similarly with every alphabet, including upper and lower cases, generating six individual formats, totally one font line of the alphabet series would generate 156 individual pictures. With the shadows included, this number would go up to 312. The different design books available are Artist Brush Font, Special Edition 1-2-3-4, Basic Font, Basic Shapes, Cartoon Font, Celebration Shapes, Classic Font, Holiday Shapes, Tag Shapes, etc. The Xyron Personal Cutting System is very light and weighs only 10 pounds. It is even compact and consumes lesser space than a scrap book. The Design Book is constructed around a memory card, which stores the patterns, shapes and fonts in the book.