Jek Sports uses 2 main types of printers, digital and silkscreen. Digital print is used for most small to medium orders and silkscreen is used for large orders. Digital offers the benefit of there being no additional charges for multi colors and all print is broken down into the main CMYK colors. Detail is also higher in digital as there are no screens, and print can be up to 300dpi. Silkscreen offers the benefit of matching specific colors and being more cost effective on long runs.
For dye sublimation all printed materials need to be polyester. Jek Sports uses 100% polyester for jerseys which result in a vibrant print. Sweat wicking is incorporated into the material to give yield a product that will move sweat away from the body helping to keep cool. Most of the fabric is from European mills. The polyester is supplied in a range of weights from cool to thermal and from flat weave to a range of mesh materials.
Dye sublimation is an indirect printing process that uses the process of sublimation to print full-color images onto a variety of substrates. The printer prints onto a release media which then passes through a heater to vaporize the solid dye material, which then solidifies in the material resulting in the material being permanently dyed.
As this type of printer allows extremely fine control of the primary color ratios, the colors remain vibrant.