Greg Lafond Email & Phone Number

• Packaging professional with 25+ years experience in design, package printing and prepress. Working from this unique background I have an in-depth knowledge of the packaging development process— from creative packaging design through prepress, color management and proofing to press-side support for final print production sign-off. By liaising with designers, brand owners/CPG, prepress, and printers I increase speed-to-market and reduce cost by identifying risks, promoting consensus on prepress and print methodologies, and leveraging efficiencies, ultimately delivering packaging that is printer-friendly, promotes brand equity and honors design fidelity.

• Brand Steward, adept at working in numerous print disciplines— flexo, gravure, offset, dry offset, digital, screen-printing— I work with printers not to produce their interpretation of the best print they can produce, but rather to produce packaging that matches the brand standard, thus ensuring the strongest, most consistent brand voice possible regardless of where the various packaging components print.
• Proficient in most common packaging categories: litho lam, pre-print and direct-print corrugated; PS and cut-and-stack labels; folding carton; metal and poly beverage closures; metal cans; plastic tubes; shrink film; flexible packaging; beverage pouches; glass decorating.• Outstanding communication skills, verbal and written: a unique blend of technical savvy and customer-facing skills that enable me to communicate technical concepts in layman's terms. Equally comfortable communicating with left-brained and right-brained people, high-level executives and production staff.• Fluent in Spanish, I’ve have traveled extensively throughout Latin America representing my customers’ interests.

Listed skills include Packaging, Graphics, Pre Press, Offset Printing, and 17 others.

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  University Of Northern Colorado

  Graphic Design