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Chizin:
Again.. Note that mesh is of two types: 1. Mesh 90 and 2. Mesh 120. And from my own understanding mesh 120 gives neat work for tiny right ups.

both of them gives a good job depending on your usage.

Chizin:
plz, I want to correct something here. After applying the mixed emulsion and small qautity of sensitizer to the mesh, you should dry it wth dryer or leave to dry in dark place, cos expose to light at this stage, it will got spoilt.

yeah, exactly. I thank u for dat

I have re-uploaded the photos of the materials we needed for the tutorial. please go to the first page but would still bring it back here... with the photo below .. The yellow stuff that has a handle is the skeegee. the content inside the Eva water is the kerosene. the paper that has the "farewell mama" is your artwork. that big wooden stuff under the paper is your mesh. You can see you jik. the white small container with a blue cover head is your emulsion. the other long pink container that looks like small bottle of alcohol is your sensitizer. then the white container in your screen printing paint.

please permit me because the updates if this thread would be slow daily. I will be updating at least once in a day. I am currently serving my country. I am in NYSC orientation camp so I have some limitations but will try updating this thread. But keep your questions coming.

LOUIS6:
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Are we going to perform d procedures for each shirt or once... I mean the mixture of d emulsion and dat stuff on mesh.. or once we are through with d mixture of emulsion and d other stuff on mesh.. we should just be applying the black ink on the mesh to print as many clothes as we want?



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Baba please take am easy, no jump. we are moving gradually.

for those asking about the cost of starting the business. I will tell you the one for screen printing now, and when we get to digital stage I will tell you about that one. for the screen printing one needs about roughly N5,000 (Hand dryer inclusive). And the cost of materials depends in your location. you can get materials cheaper in Abuja than Lagos. But I will use Asaba as example.
Mesh--- N800
skeegee---N300
Hand dryer---- N2000 (depending on the type you want)
jik -------- N250
emulsion ---- N300 (depending on size)
Screen printing paint ------- N300 (depending on sizes)
kerosene--- N50
sensitizer----N250

After you must have circulated the mixture with your skeegee, use your hand dryer to dry the substance on the mesh... photo below of me drying my substance on the mesh..

more photos of me using the server to circulate the substance around the mesh....

After stiring the two substances inside the container to give you your mixture, get your mesh, and pour the mixture uniformly according to the size of our art work .... circulate the mixture using your skeegee to go around that area properly...
photo below...

Tutorial continues.........

So after printing out the art work on A4 paper, get a very small container. Add some little quantity of emulsion into the container, and add a little quantity of sensitizer into the container that you have the emulsion. Stir /mix properly. after stiring the two substances inside the container to give you a mixture..

2ndking:
Thumbs up bro. Am motivated

How can I access the materials


Don't know if it's the right time to ask though

The materials are easy to access. Just work up to any shop they sell them. You can get jik any were..

printing out the artwork.... for this tutorial, I will be using two artwork.. WWW.hovabuzz.com

PROCEDURES FOR SCREEN PRINTING..

Procedures:Design your art work in your computer and print it out. Pleasenotethat screen printing doesn’t require much designs and colours because for one to have a successful transfer print, the art work must be printed in black(thick, black colour). screen printing works best with letters, alphabets and numbers while digital is best for images. And you don’t need to be a pro in corel draw for you to work well in screen printing. Screen printing doesn’t allow coloured prints, if not it will not transfer.1.Take for instance, mama Ngbaku died and her children has given us the contract to print a farewell note on t-shirts that will be shared among their family. After designing or writing the text with my corel draw. I wrote “Farewell Mama.” Then I printit out with A4 paper.

. materials for the work

Printing on T-shirts involves two types, theDIGITAL PRINTINGandSCREEN PRINTING.For me I often times refer to the screen printing as “manual or analogue” method and digital “Heat transfer”. The digital method is quite expensive to start up. Printing using digital method is also more expensive that screen printing because of the materials involves and the colourful results it would yield.SCREEN PRINTINGYou have the clothes you want to print on.Materials needed are: Mesh, squeegee(I don’t know if am right with the spelling), sensitizer, kerosene, hand dryer, emulsion,textile screen printing ink, jik (washing off inks) and Art work. Your art work is what you printed out from the system.

WWW.hovabuzz.com ...

The next class we are going to start the tutorial fully..

my Oga finally invited the man that would teach us screen printing. Come see the jeep wey the man carry come our center. And I asked my Oga if it was really the the t-shirt printing business that is giving him the money to buy that kind of car and my Oga said "yes ooo" . And he was only into screen printing, no digital.
He was an elderly man of about 60 years but still strong. He thought us well even though my Oga couldn't still pick up much. But I was able to. My Oga invited a guy from Onitsha who thought us on how to do the digital printing. After that, I began practising till I was so good and began doing the job so well. It gave us popularity in the area.. Here are couple of my works

story and tutorial continues.....
when I left the man's office, I was so devastated. I wanted a reasonable pay but the one that offered that had many disadvantages. Even when I told my mom, she objected to the first job. She rather advised me to go for the one that is 8k. But my ego was much. I looked at myself, for some one who had worked for Google and also written mind blowing articles for mobile brand company, Tecno. So I was just imagining how I will be a photocopy boy, doing photocopy and printing of documents. chaiiiiiii, "a whole me" I was thinking to myself. Me wey be say dem dey even pay me weekly back in my final year as I dey work for people as writer, blogger and web builder. na me wan come to scramble for 8k monthly pay job. I was considering taking up the first job but not until I visited my cousin who is a photographer and normally goes to the first company to edit his work and print them out. He and his girlfriend said that the editing and media company, there was a day when he was coming from a work and the company was still open at about 9pm. chaiii, so na I go dey come back by 10pm if i start the work 6 days a week.
I called my sister and she said I should pray about it. I thought about it, I remembered what the owner of the second job of business center told me. And he was frustrated because he had spent money getting the materials for the printing but was yet to see someone he believes that once they are thought will grab it and start the work in the place.
I encouraged myself and called the owner of the business center. I told him that I have decided to work for him. I had to humble myself after thinking about it. I felt that it would be a big opportunity for me. in fact I wasn't going to learn it with money. This one he said he would invite people that will teach. I had heard that there are packages in the t-shirt and one man who does the job not too far from our business center, he charges people up to 100k to teach people. Na Im dem just wan teach me for free. chaiii "this is an opportunity for you" something said to me. So I will be doing the photocopy, printing and typing documents and printing on T-shirt .
and I started working in the business center and my Oga informed the man that will teach us the manual method (screen printing) of printing. He told the person that he had gotten a new worker which is me. My Oga said that the man that will teach us screen printing is his church member he had agreed to come and teach us...
To be continued.... ..

Good morning every one, Please I need your comments. This one wey some people dey read and dem no comment, your comments will go a long way to encourage me and all least I see say people dey follow.
update coming shortly

HOW I STARTED THE T-SHIRTS PRINTING BUSINESS

By the month of April this year 2015, it was all dawned on me that I won't be following the Batch A for my NYSC. I was so pained that I wasn't going for my NYSC that moment. Well, I encouraged myself and went to Asaba to spend some time with my parents. Staying there, sleeping and waking up, eating good food, I wasn't satisfied. I needed to do something, I needed to work and earn money. As a graduate, na my mama dey still dey give me N100 to buy recharge card. I needed money to be renewing my data subscriptions. I browse a lot. I no wan dey idle so I gata work. i decided to look for a job to do. My mom even encouraged me to look for a job pending when I will go with the next batch for my NYSC. But there are no reasonable jobs, only jobs that they were paying N5k or N10k per month. I thought I won't do that kind of job. Because I was yet to undergo my NYSC, so the jobs avalaible are not well paying jobs.
I searched till I found a place. It was quit big. They are a video and photo editing, media and event company. I applied and met with the Oga at the top who is also the owner of the company. He said that when they employ me, they would train me on the use of Adobe photo shop application. immediately I heard that he said they will train me, I was so happy because I have always wanted to learn Adobe photo shop and that was the right time for me. And dem go teach me for free and come start to work with them. The Oga said it was a norm that their new employees, they always teach them how to make use of their applications before integrating them to work. But the bombshell was when he said that when I start up work, work opens 8am from Monday till Saturday and they don't have a specific closing hour. they might close 7pm depending on how work comes. Chaiii na so I think am and the salary was a bit good, N20k pee month . But something was telling me that that kind of job would strip me off my social life. I work from Monday till Saturday, go in the morning and return at night in the midst of security threats in the area. The Oga sef talk say when I start work, if I come to work a minute after 8am, he won't condole it because I came late. All because of N20k per month. After everything, he said I should think about it and get back to him. I left the place unhappy. As i waa returning back home, i saw another advert that a cpmputer operator is needes at a place close to my home. i went into the place. Gush i hated doing printing and photocopy jobs because that is what they want. But i managed to enter there and met the man. He said that he was looking for someone that will the doing photocopy and printing at that his business center. And he said he was adding t-shirt printing to it. He said he bought the machine ans printer the previous year. They had come to teach him and his former worker who left, but they were unable to grab something from the tutorials and the worker had left. He said the people came to teach again on how to use the machine but due to his age, he couldn't pick much from it. he said he believes young people like us are fast in learning , that if I start working, he will call people that will teach me so I will learn it and start doing the job. He said he would be paying me N8k monthly. Chaiii, na so my face change. and na 8 to 6 job ooo. 8k keh. I told him I will think about it and left the place..

To be continued.........

Hi everyone, life is a journey and we have to take what it's offering or we change how we see it. In Nigeria today, there are many undergraduates that are unemployed. The Government has said it that they can't provide jobs for everyone, so entrepreneur is the future. As a Nigerian, you have to create your own economy, venture into entrepreneurial programs. That is why I want to teach us, introduce us on this business, Printing of texts, images and words on T-shirts. Some people refer to it as customising on t-shirts.
Printing on t-shirts is pretty a good and lucrative business that can get you a car within a year as a sole owner if you are serious in the business. Please permit me because this tutorial will come inform of story. And you will definitely enjoy it. I am a writer and a blogger so am combining my skills on this tutorial and as time goes on, you ask me questions and I will you answers.
just like I said, printing on t-shirts is a great job. I have seen most ladies learning and going into the business, though I tell people its a big man business. Though it doesn't require you having huge amount of money before starting it. You just need just little money to start the business. The ladies I saw learning the skill and going into it inspired me to learn it with zeal. You need to see clean, and beautiful babes going into it and are doing fine. It made me think I can do better. I learnt it and an doing the job. I know a man that all his children after graduating from university, they would come back to their dad's company because he has t-shirt printing company. And the children are driving cars and running their father's business well. so I encourage us to put in our best as I go into this tutorial. As your questions and I will answer.
Tutorials being in a short while..

NgeneUkwenu:
Head or Tail, Nyesom Wike is gone!



TonyeBarcanista, now the real work begins... especially now that you have ditched igbo people who had been supporting you in trying times in the hands of us the progressives

Can you please take this Igbo stuff out of all this drama.. This ur agitation for Biafra is going no were. Back to the issue, I can see the body language of Buhari in all of this.

Ogboru can never win Delta state. He had been trying even before my younger brother was born till now. He's still failing.

i know it wont be so easy but i will advise you to be calm, try venturing into another thing like business or handwork you have while still job hunting. my sister finished her service last year but is yet to get a job, but her baking business she does, the money she dey get in one week, some government workers never make am in a month. though she will soon get a govt job before the end of the year. @shashafm please what did you study in school?

e don happen. yes sssss. Tonyebarcanista will be smiling in his backyard now. Next will be tolu ogunlesi criticizing Buhari, soon jagaban and obasanjo will follow. but, make them leave baba Buhari alone.

leemavo:
Hi,please who's in Abuja ? Posted to rivers

welcome... present sir

mobicomtech01:
Sorry i've tried to reply all the mails i got. You can resend if your mail has not been replied. And i'll post a link shortly for people to download samples of the apps that you can develop using appsmoment.

ok

arcnomec:
To my fellow CM's ,pls don't let someone feed you with negative information abt a place they barely know much......Becos of the number of government owned schools here in Rivers state,85% of CM's are posted to schools while the remaining is shared amongst ministries....For you to service in oil company,then u need the favour of God n perhaps long leg...........port Harcourt is an expensive city,so be prepared for it once u are posted there.......As for those if you that will be posted to my hometown (omoku) u need not worry abt the prevailing circumstances there,as the reason for the restiveness is not your concern....Just for the record,no body has the time to even touch a corper,except u bring your cultism lifestyle which u had in your university days.......No matter who u are in sch,don't ever try to show off lest you are in for a soup......

chaiiiiiii omoku your home town.. as I dey enter Rivers next week, shey make I buy bread from grand square or from wuse for you? you make sense. well there are no places that is just totally peaceful but as new comers, we have to know what and where we are going into.

arcnomec:
young man u see your life,u haven't reported to camp u are here thinking abt women......I just hope you are posted to bonny..since u love women,then be ready to spend your money on them...And ride a boat with a roaring sea

hahahaha lolz...

dustmalik:
This is the man that gave birth to the best investigate journalism outfit in Nigeria. We need more of his kind

Ask Seun osewa of nairaland what he did to him some few years back

the man that gave GEJ headache that paracetamol couldn't cure, he gave Diezani heart ache that landed her in London hospital. the chief priests of propaganda and APC wing of media

well, Rivers loading and the wish us well.

Sammie2310:
u can flex to maximum for ph... but if ur ppa is at rural areas... den na oyo u dey ooo...especially if u ar posted to a place where u wil enter canoe bfor u can get to town....


#smiles#

It seems you are from rivers, but wait ooo, hope say una women make sense because if not! hahaha. beautiful women in rivers lolz...