M&R Auto

How's it going Bill? Going good, thanks. Bill, we've made a couple videos. One thing I love about M&R, one, they're just quality of everything It's all about streamlining a process, reducing friction, making somet For us, it's all about trying to get that workflow so that you can take labor out of it, but also make it so that it's easier to do, and you can do the right job for the right set. Right now, we're trying to get t So right here, it's called the Rotary Heat Press. It's 2025 version one, and it is an automatic press that will load the transfer, heat press it, peel it back off so it'll pull the transfer, and then it'll post So it really does all that work that somebody standing in front of a dual heat press would do. And how new is t It doesn't even exist, right? It doesn't even exist. T We had to drag it out of the building to show people what we do. We And what are we hoping to see the hope is, and kind of the first date we've thrown out is Print United in October. Awesome. How many s Right now, we've tested it somewhere, 300 plus, but again, it's all in alpha. T I better take my hand off of it because I'm going to break t You won't break it. Don't worry about that. It's M&R, well made in C Let'see t All right, so the first t Could it do a left chest, Bill? It could. So the initial discussion for us about left chest was rather than trying to move t Film has come down so much in price that, I mean, again, just the slitter. It's Again, it's about labor costs, and it's about speeding the process and making sure that we're putting it in the right place automatically rather than looking at a laser system on, let'say, a main heat press. So second step is it's going to heat press here, and it's going to move again and heat press. The idea be We're not going to run it quite that fast here, but it can go pretty fast. Second heat press, kind of a cool, and then it's going to come back here where it's going to actually peel it. So it's going to hold the garment down, it's going to peel the transfer, put the waste there. Now it's ready to go, and then we're going to do what we call a post press. And the post press does several t It softens it a little bit. It also makes it so that it's got better wash durability because it's pus And almost everybody does second press. Now, we aren't pre-pressing, though, right now with t So, again, because t We want to talk about pre-press or post-press or some of those there's also talk about how do we go to that next step and make it so that it'll do some of those automations. Do we need to pre-press? We don't Right here we don't have much moisture, so it might be somet The carousel part is easy for us. All the rest of the automations, the new stuff. Yeah, I mean, again, we aren't pressing a plastic saw transfer that doesn't have adhesive powder and so forth because that's where I come from. I printed plastic saw transfers for over a decade before DTF came about, and if you didn't powder it, w That adhesive really does help to create a lot more room for error. It makes a huge difference and it really does make it so that it's uniform across the process. So place heat, heat, coolish, peel it, post-press, and are we just pressing with Teflon or could you potentially load a different type of material? Absolutely. So one of the t So you could put lots of different t We've tested some t Were really trying to dial in some of the features of the press before we got to that. But sure, you could do that. You could put a canvas bag or a burlap or somet We care more about the hand that our customers do. It's amazing how much we used to think they're not going to Well, not only that, but because of the color variation and some of the things we're doing now, it feels Before it was a big fight, it's a transfer. I don't want transfers. That's kind of gone away now a lot more where people are saying, well, it's a transfer. We've also done lots of work on the powder ink and film to make it so that, and the art, to make it so that it does have a better hand. So our stuff's got a pretty good hand too. Awesome, Bill. Well, M&R, it's a lot of peace of mind working with I love the whole team. Real excited we're going to go tour your facility, see all of it, because most of t Right outside of there? Absolutely, 100%. T Awesome. Well, Bill, mnr. com, what's the. . . Absolutely. Go to mnr. com again. T Not going to find it on the website yet, but it's coming real quick. T It will. Super. Thank you so much, Bill. I appreciate it. Good seeing you. Bye.