The Imprenta Factory is the center of Extreme Animals. Extreme Animals is designed for people who love fancy cloth prints.

It all started in 1993 in the small village of Lajares, where the Imprenta Factory printed textiles in cooperation with the „Octopus“ boutique. The two founders, Markus Rossknecht and Jan Weber, have been joined by Helga Palmers in 1994. In order to be closer to the customer, the Imprenta Factory has been moved to Corralejo after some years and has been taken over by Helga and Karls Bahle shortly after.

When the manager of a diving base, Helmut Brittig, came on the island and changed from the sports to the creative business one year later, the factory gained new impetus. Since 1999, Helmut and his wife Helga are the heart of the printery. With a great deal of commitment and risk acceptance, Imprenta Factory has grown bigger. As time went by, Helga and Helmut not only printed designs as given by their customers, but also invented their own label and created their own designs. They thus established „Extreme Animals“ in 2001 and design their own ideas ever since. The factory has been divided into a production unit and the Extreme Animals Shop unit. On 100m² of space, fancy T-shirts are designed, produced and sold right away.
 

                        
                         T-shirt draft                             Screen, brinting table and drying tunnel             Imprenta Factory by night

In 1993, water-based colours have been used, and the clothes have been irond by hand in order to fix the colours. This was a fairly time-consuming procedure. Nowadays, oil-based biological colours are used, and the merchandise runs through a drying-tunnel on a belt. Within the drying-tunnel, the air is heated up to 160° by ceramic rods. The screen-printing has not been altered. Every single print of this factory is guaranteed hand-made..

Imprenta Factory loves to fulfill special customer-wishes. Designs drafted by customers are being dealt with, and litographs are produced. With the help of these, the customer’s drafts are exposed on the screen, and the T-shirt can be printed on according to the customer’s wishes. 

The customers appreciate the fact, that Extreme Animals T-shirts are generally delivered in a 190 gr/m² quality. The sturdy Extreme Animals T-shirts are thus designed to allow the people wearing them can move freely and do extreme exercises, and enjoy their T-shirts even after many cycles of washing programmes.

One can say, that Imprenta Factory has already realized many an idea. The team prints around the clock and thus turns Imprenta Factory into a sunny meeting place. Helga, Helmut and the whole team would be glad to show you their Extreme Animal ideas, too, if you would visit Imprenta Factory on beautiful Fuerteventura island.