Reviving a 1.5 year dead thread is probably not the best place to post your questions, hehe. Probably should've just posted this as a new thread, but:
Do the softwares that are available for the vinyl cutters let you type text in other languages?
I figure the software would let you change font styles AND sizes but I am not sure about languages...
Well, I think you'll just be limited by your fonts. If you have another language font, you can surely use it just as you would any other font.
If not, are you able to copy and paste text into the vinyl software before printing to the cutter?
I ask this because if I cannot type text in another language then maybe I could copy and paste it into to the software but even if I could it may not translate it thus allowing me not to be able to print it that way??
I'm sure you can copy and paste in just about any cutter program. However, it's going to be the same either way; you'll still need the font for that language (I assume you're talking about a language that doesn't use basic roman letters, such as Japanese for example?). There won't be any 'translation' going on in the cutter software; I'm not completely sure what you're trying to do here. You might want to give an exact example.
Right now we are looking at getting one of the inexpensive 8" cutter packages...
Most people wouldn't really recommend going with a small, cheap cutter. 8" is really cutting it anyway - you'd want at *least* an 11 inch for doing t-shirts. Most people recommend getting a quality 24" or larger (Graphtec, Summa, Roland...) even to start with though - they will last a long time, and give you lots of room to grow.
I know someone mentioned that you are limited with the 8" but does this mean you cannot tell it to print in landscape ONLY portrait?
Uh? If you have an 8" width cutter, it cannot cut wider than 8" (probably about 7.5" actual cutting area max). It doesn't matter what you tell it, it physically can't go larger
Also, does this mean that there is no option for 11x14 OR is the paper options for vinyl not based on that type of paper sizing ?
Vinyl isn't usually done in sheets at all (except for maybe scraps). Most of your vinyl work will be with rolls of vinyl, several yards long. The cutter feeds what it needs and slices it up. Again, if you have an 8" wide cutter, it simply cannot cut wider than that.
This brings me to another note for choosing such a smaller cutter - I don't know how many t-shirt vinyls are even available in such a small width roll. Most come in 15 or 19 inch width rolls.