Hi. My name is Chad Lackey
Color Applications Engineer.

I’ve spent 35 years working in the packaging & label printing industry. My primary focus has always been color quality.

I’ve worked for 3 core sectors of the package printing industry.

Flexographic & Gravure Printing

Printing Ink

Color measurement technology

Some of my recent accomplishments:

  • Moved 50M in ink accounts from old color platforms to X-Rite Autura Ink Cloud Software

  • Assited X-Rite in the development of Autura over several years

  • Worked on global color projects & training media

  • Managed a busy narrow web color matching lab

  • Explored and performed digital color match proofing

  • Managed a 5M on-site ink operation that became the model InHouse for Siegwerk