Where will my design be printed and what colours are available?
You will notice two main areas of our printed socks:
- The Print Area (sublimation panel)
The panel where you design is printed (sublimated) is shown on the designs below. For our Premium, Classic & Business styles, this is the rectangular area you will see in the picture below on the left and then the fully sublimated style, you will see on the right. The best part… due to being polyester this area can support unlimited colours! So your design possibilities are endless!

The remainder of the sock is called the base. While you can't modify the base area of the sock, we do offer a selection of different preset base colours that can complement your design. When designing your sock, you can use the following colour chart to best match your design colours with the base colours we offer.
If you do have a certain colour code you would like to use mention about a full custom design and we can try and match it as closely as possible, this will potentially delay how long it takes to complete your order.
What can be printed onto the socks?
In short anything! You have pretty much unlimited potential when it comes to the design artwork that is then sublimated onto the sock. Our socks start as pre-knit bases (unless you choose to fully customise your order) The printed designs are then applied to the socks using a Digital Ink printing process (sublimation) which creates a vivid, clear and crisp print onto the design area. There are however a few things to keep in mind:
- If you want the most professional results, provide vector images of your artwork (EPS, AI, PSD formats)(often sent as source files from designers). Vector graphics are made of points and lines related to each other to form polygons, which are then filled with colours, tints, or gradients. On the other hand, raster files such as JPEG or PNG files use pixels to create a complete image. A digital image created using vector graphics has many advantages:
- It is not dependent on resolution, this means you can zoom in as much as you need without images losing their quality, this makes it easily—and infinitely—scalable.
- The file-size is relatively small, even for large images.
- You can save a vector file in different formats if you need to.
- It allows the image to be easily manipulated if necessary.
- Why not JPEG or PNG files? We can absolutely work with these file types (and more often than not these are the only files types available to people) but JPEGs or PNG files can be poor raster graphic files which can lead to rough edges, blurry images and distortion which leads to a subpar quality image once printed onto the sock.
We wish to provide you with nothing but the best quality image so keep this in mind when sending across your artwork, this way, we can guarantee the colours match, the design will be clear and crisp, and there will be no distortion to the logo.
Where are the designs printed on different styles?
All of our sublimated Premium, Classic and Business socks all feature a printing area that is 3.5 by 4.5 inches tall (this can be extended to 3.5 x 6.5 inches tall on full crew styles). The only acceptation to this design area is the full sub sock which is an all over print design. The rest of the sock is a pre-knit base and cannot be altered. The design areas are made from polyester and is the space we apply our digital ink printing.
The table below gives you a guide as to where the designs will be printed on the sock to maximise visibility.
Sock Style / Length
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Print Window Position
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Low
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Single print panel, top of foot
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Quarter
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Single print panel, top of foot
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Mid
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Printed on both sides - Unless you submit a full wrap around design (L/R), lower calf
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Crew
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Printed on both sides - Unless you submit a full wrap around design (L/R), lower calf
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Full Sub
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Double print panel (Front/Back), full sock height
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Embroidered Designs
The whole of our embroidered range starts off as a premium base without the design print panel, the embroidered design is then applied to the sock.
As a guide, dimensions for embroidered logos are 1 x 1 inch (25.4mm x 25.4mm) max for square logos, and 2 x 2 inch (50.8mm x 50.8mm) max for circle logos.
Please note: No more than eight colours can be applied to each design.