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The Benefits of Using a Pre Roll Machine in Your Cannabis Production Facility

Transform Your Operation With Pre Roll Automation

In a taboo industry with ridiculous tax rates, you may find yourself stuck between a rock and a hard place now and then. Like, maybe you want to automate part of your business, but 280E is keeping you from feeling comfortable spending money on something you’re not sure will work. You might think about hiring manual labor to handle the task instead, but then you’ll have to compensate for human error, unpredictability, and the ever-revolving door of new hires.

Either way, you gonna burn cash. But only one way allows you to quickly recoup the cost—automation. And it’ll do even more than that if you leverage all the benefits a pre roll machine has to offer your business.

Looks like the rock it is. Let’s see how it rolls.

Pre Roll Machines Reduce Labor Costs

That manual labor we mentioned earlier? Not really a thing with a pre roll machine. You’ll likely need one or two machine operators to monitor the machine while it’s running and potentially refill it with flower or replace some parts or consumable material, but that’s way fewer people to pay than a staff of 35 hand-rollers.

Not to mention, an automated pre roll machine can produce a joint more quickly and efficiently than a human, saving time and energy that can be spent elsewhere in your business.

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A container full of RollPros prerolls

Pre Roll Machines Produce a Consistent Product

Hand-rolling joints is an art form. There’s no doubt about that. But you’re not selling art; you’re selling a commodity. Consumers are going to expect quality and consistency. Those two things are not a guarantee when you’re using manual labor.

With a pre roll machine, consistency is the priority. Every aspect of the joint is controlled—the weight, the shape, the airflow, the end of the joint (fold vs twist), the overall size—so the output is always the same.

This is simply not achievable without an automated setup.

Pre Rolls Machines Create Less Waste

Consistency means predictability, which means less waste.

We’re talking less waste of everything:

      • Flower
      • Paper
      • Crutches/tips
      • Time
      • Resources (i.e. money, labor, energy, etc.)


Although you may have to spend a pretty penny on an automated pre roll machine to get started, it will recoup its cost in more than just pre roll sales. Because the machine operates the same way every day, every time, it creates far less waste than manual labor does and it allows you to easily track any losses or expenditures.

Pre Roll Machines Offer a Safer Environment on the Front and Back Ends

Hear us out—on the front end of things, the consumer side, smoking a pre roll made by a pre roll machine feels safer because there is minimal human interference. No stranger’s hands touched the flower, paper, or crutch. No latex gloves cross-contaminated things by scratching the top of a head before returning to pack flower into a joint. This is particularly crucial if you operate in a medical market. And of course, this only stands so long as the pre roll machine’s cleaning and maintenance are regular and thorough.

On the back end of things, the production side, fewer-to-no humans need to be exposed to air that’s thick with floating cannabis particles and the allergies (or worse) that those particles may trigger.

Pre Roll Machines Allow for Versatility and Customization

Incorporating a pre roll machine in your cannabis business makes it super easy to customize your products in about a million different ways.

You can quickly and easily change up the flower you’re rolling with. You can throw in a concentrate several different ways, from coating the joint to adding a donut hole (depending on the pre roll machine you purchase).

You can add branded crutches/tips and/or branded paper. And you can easily change those tips or paper out for different kinds or ones with different branding.

You can produce dogwalkers in the morning and full gram joints in the afternoon.

Hell, you could easily just make Tuesday “limited edition pre roll day” and produce a super limited, super sexy pre roll drop once a week to get more interest in your brand. Try telling a team of hand-rollers they have to roll tedious donut hole pre rolls for an entire day every single week.

Pre Rolls Make It Easy To Scale Your Business

All of the above perks of a pre roll machine mean you can take your business to the next level faster and easier than if your operations were manual.

If you set up an automated pre roll station in your cannabis production facility that works, you can repeat that exact setup throughout your business as you start producing more and expanding across states. If you’re not ready to physically expand but still need to be producing more, you can easily incorporate multiple pre roll machines into your operations without having to scale staff.

Certain pre roll machines may even allow you to automate and scale your packaging and labeling processes too.

The BlackBird Pre Roll Machine Does Even More

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There are a bunch of different automated pre roll machines on the market, and in theory, they all offer the benefits listed above. Like anything, you get what you pay for, so expectations need to be adjusted based on price point.

There’s only one pre roll machine that guarantees all of the above benefits and then some: The BlackBird by RollPros. This machine does so much more than any other pre roll machine on the market for many little reasons and one big one.

The “little” reasons (quotation marks because they’re not that little; they’re just little compared to the big reason) include:

      • the machine reclaims kief that you can use in other products
      • you can use the machine to roll infused pre rolls in two different ways
      • it’s compatible with RollPros’ proprietary DrawCheck machine, which allows you to test and confirm the draw of your pre roll before sending it to market
      • it’s American-made, and so are its consumables, so it has less impact on the environment
      • RollPros provides in-person, hands-on training and onboarding to start and readily available customer support for the lifetime of the product
      • the machine is modular, which means any updates or upgrades RollPros creates can easily be added to your machine, keeping you up to date without you having to purchase a new machine every few years 
      • every machine comes with a 1-year warranty
      • RollPros has a team of in-house designers that can create custom-branded crutches/tips for your pre rolls


The big reason is pretty major—the BlackBird is the only automated pre roll machine on the market that rolls joints. It does not stuff cones. That means no harsh burn, no hard drag, and no BS smoking experience. Just a solid smoke sesh the way they used to be.

If you want to leverage every benefit of pre roll automation that’s listed in this blog, you want to talk to RollPros. We’ll introduce you to the BlackBird so you can see how we roll. Contact us today.