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Rebecca Freeman: Oct 25, 2026, 1:46:24 PM
A brand manager approves a pack on screen. The proof looks right. Then the first press sheets arrive, the brand red looks tired, the pale blue has...
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Rebecca Freeman: Oct 12, 2026, 3:47:27 PM
Your team signs off the artwork. The pack goes to print. Then a store manager sends a photo: the QR code won't scan at the till, or it scans and...
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Rebecca Freeman: Oct 12, 2026, 10:52:04 AM
Somewhere in your packaging process there's a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts. It holds material specs, supplier declarations and the claims printed...
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Rebecca Freeman: Sep 24, 2026, 12:31:18 PM
A single ingredient change can ripple across forty SKUs, twelve languages, and a print deadline that was already tight before legal flagged the...
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Rebecca Freeman: Sep 14, 2026, 12:27:41 PM
Let's be honest, the barcode has never been the star of the packaging conversation. It sits quietly at the bottom corner of the pack, does its one...
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Rebecca Freeman: Sep 14, 2026, 12:03:16 PM
Six years ago, a mid-size beauty brand might have run 40 SKUs across two markets. Today, that same product category often means 200 SKUs, five...
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Rebecca Freeman: Sep 2, 2026, 11:25:51 AM
A single mistranslated dosage instruction can do more damage than any packaging error on the market. Get a varnish registration wrong and you reprint...
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Rebecca Freeman: Aug 11, 2026, 3:21:14 PM
A recalled batch of packaging rarely starts with a design mistake. It usually starts with a regulatory detail that got missed somewhere between the...
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Rebecca Freeman: Jul 27, 2026, 1:01:20 PM
Every pharma packaging team has lived through some version of the same bad afternoon. The artwork went through creative, through legal, through...
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Rebecca Freeman: Jul 19, 2026, 4:30:53 PM
A packaging artwork gets approved on three different monitors, in three different offices, by three different reviewers. Everyone signs off. The job...
