Screen Printing Geeks
Eight Seven Central is a print studio obsessed with creating the perfect shirt for every occasion.
We believe that a perfectly printed shirt that arrives a day too late is not a perfectly printed shirt. We understand that a perfectly printed shirt that arrives on time but over budget is still not a perfectly printed shirt. And on top of that, we understand that if it looks like shi*t, it isn't perfect either.
Baked into our DNA is an obsession with details, hard work, and experimentation in order to find the best ways to print and produce quality work. Over the years we have tweaked or overhauled our workflow, our desk setup, our shop management system, screen reclamation, and tested out all kinds of inks and print methods. You will often find us at trade shows, discovering new apparel brands and machinery. This year we even built a temperature, dust, and humidity controlled zone in order to get the best possible prints from our Direct To Garment printer.
In the early days, we existed in the East Village district of Des Moines, IA. That space was fraught with cardboard cuts on our legs from open box flaps and fumes from cleaning screens. Today, we own a building in the Roosevelt Historic District and truly feel that our ability to produce quality shirts at volume is second to none.