Gee, can I chime in here? Instead of being third-personed.
The suit definitely used different inks for the red and the blue sections (the brick on the blue being a thick emulsion), but the bricks on the red DO change the way the surface of the suit reflects light. It's hard to capture on camera, but the ink on the red DOES catch catch ambient light a bit. It is, however, more "soaked in" to the weave, leading me to wonder if the red sections used a water based ink rather than the plastisol based inks used on the blue sections. I don't have clear images of the wear and tear areas, since the red brick is hard enough to photograph in the first place, but there were areas that looked like it had worn away. That and the surface sheen and some info I've gleaned from people in the local industry is what informed my conclusion that everything on the suits was screen-printed.
(more wordstuff after the pics)
http://i.imgur.com/YE1Bv0f.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Wc7zSzX.jpg
However, as Jake mentioned, the red portions show a similar appearance as results from dye-sublimation, which can be less of an ordeal to manage. Other suitmakers like Anneys have gotten good results from using dye-sublimation on satin-finish fabric, which would be a fine approach and the one I aimed to take on my own suit.
