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Hey Oz, can I ask a question? No, I'm busy. Now I'm kidding. Come back, come back Cook questions. I've been hearing a lot lately about the print versus press. Can you tell me what's that about? For the longest time, everybody use this pattern from 1984. This is for printing SLA. So this patent and almost any other 3D printer in the world relies on that for it to work. Take a look at this video. So you see this is a typical resin for printing with standard SLA machine. So this is where we print. But then why do we need to press? We need to press more viscous. By exactly because gravity alone is not going to take care of this movement for the resin itself, but then it Midas, which now we use the press technology. What we do essentially is you pour liquid into this capsule. But then once you do that, you press on it using this plunger. So when you press that resin movement is not just relying on gravity, it's relying on the machine pressing it 100 microns at a time for about that much volume, whatever that 100 microns volume means for this. So it kind of printing a little bit volumetric rather than the typical movement of Z axis that goes up and down, up and down. So it almost becomes a continuous printing process. We call Midas the honey badger of 3D printers because it doesn't care. Are you pressing? Only pressing 2, pressing 3, or you're pressing one of these big capsules. It's about four times bigger. So now that one machine that was able to do restoratives now can do more than that. It can actually do surgical guides, quad surgical guides. It can do bridges. It can do a full set of veneers, implant crowns if you need a bunch of them at the same time, or implant bridges for that matter. The 40 unit implant bridge or 6 unit implant bridge, as long as you can fit it into this, that same machine that does single unit at the time can now do more with the same viscous material. So this is really the power of press versus printing.