jhdesigns

The holes are there Renee........ When we put ours together I had to lay down under the damn thing with a flashlight to line em up

We finished kart number two last night. Same basic design but different number and colors. Had a little issue cutting the purple but it was not the machines fault..... Operator error

Hopefully this is the case but you may have to install Vista drivers for the card. Did the box and/or driver disc say it was Vista compatible? If so you may just need to install the drivers off the disc. If not you will need to go to the card manufacturers website and see if they have Vista drivers available for it.

What program are you creating your designs in Renee?

I like to stick it on in layers using fluid behind each layer. That works great on race cars and go karts but I'm sure it wouldn't work on all surfaces. I stick the first layer down, squeege it good, let it dry for a bit, then peel off the transfer paper and start on the next layer. On the larger pieces I spray the work surface and the back of the vinyl to make sure it doesn't stick before I have it placed correctly. Small fine letters like the Hughes Racing inside the #11 I stick on dry but you have to be careful because once it touches there's no moving it. Here's a picture of the side with the first layer of the number and Hughes Tractor logo applied. We decided the Hughes Tractor logo wasn't big enough so we pulled it off and made a larger one.

Thanks for all the great compliments I must credit my wife for the design work. I barely know how to open Illustrator much less design something with it. She even uses one of those evil Mac type computers. I have been racing big cars for a long time and Sign Design in Columbus, MS used to do all my lettering. (Not the big car in these pictures) I learned a lot from them about what looks good on the race track and they taught me how to stick the layered vinyl. Don't be scared of layering it Renee. Just be sure to mix up some application fluid and don't try to stick it dry.

We recently purchased a P-Cut to do our own racing graphics. Here is our first job. My wife did the layout in Illustrator and I cut the vinyl using SignBlazer. There were a few choice words about the bitmap to vector issue but once she learned how to export the files the way the cutting program wanted them we were in business. http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa211/jhughes1111/New%20Kart/Picture031.jpg[/img] http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa211/jhughes1111/New%20Kart/Picture032.jpg[/img] http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa211/jhughes1111/New%20Kart/Picture029.jpg[/img] The P-Cut works great. No problems so far that weren't caused by operator error