The Packaging and Advertising Technology curriculum provides students with a background in producing graphic images for the print and packaging industry. Students prepare to enter the industry by receiving an overview of all facets of graphic communication including design, graphic software, digital photography, customer service, sales, marketing, management, estimating, and printing processes.

Students may earn a two-year Associate of Applied Business degree that incorporates classroom study, lab projects, and co-op employment with area employers in the graphic and packaging industry. Students receive in-depth training on Macintosh and Windows-based computers utilizing the industry’s leading graphic software. They learn to produce jobs on a variety of printing presses such as sheet-fed offset, digital, flexographic, screen, and letterpress. Lecture classes include training in ink and paper selection, estimating, and printing processes emphasizing the flexographic press technology used for the packaging industry.

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