The technical fabrics that make up today’s team marketplace are complex in their performance traits, so it’s no surprise that they’re more complex to print. The polyester and compression characteristics, along with nylon and microfibers that comprise these garments can be intimidating. But when decorating for the team market, a combination of technologies will ease any apprehension and provide the most complete solution to embellishing all types of fabrics for team wear. These technologies that will apply logos, lettering and numbering to performance wear include screen printing (with a number machine for certain applications), heat transfer via print/cut, and heat transfer via CAD-cut/die cut.

Here, Josh Ellsworth explores the latter two technologies and how to determine what’s best for the task at hand…