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Know Your Print Industry – MN – 3.11.2025

Download PDF, Click Here. MINNESOTA Carbon Black Ban Proposed Back on February 27th, we sent you an email on proposed Carbon Black Legislation. This is that email: The attack on Carbon Black has come to Minnesota. As we know, Carbon Black is a component of black inks to provide an intense black color.  Human exposure […]


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Know Your Print Industry – MN – 2.27.2025

Download PDF, Click Here. MINNESOTA Carbon Black Ban Proposed The attack on Carbon Black has come to Minnesota. As we know, Carbon Black is a component of black inks to provide an intense black color.  Human exposure to carbon black through printing is limited because it is bound within a matrix. According to the NIH […]


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Know Your Print Industry – IA, MN & NE – 2.21.2025

Download PDF, Click Here. IOWA HSB 114 – Unemployment Insurance Premium Reform The Governor’s proposal for premium reform of the Iowa Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund has been introduced in the Iowa House. Recall that in recent years Iowa has transformed the legacy “unemployment department” into a re-employment agency at Iowa Workforce Development. Now recently unemployed Iowans […]


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Know Your Print Industry – MN – 12.2.2024

Download PDF, Click Here. MINNESOTA Packaging Waste & Cost Reduction Act: We want to make sure that Printing Industry Midwest (PIM) Members – for this purpose Minnesota Members are aware of the Packaging Waste & Cost Reduction Act, the State of Minnesota became the 5th state to pass a Extended Producer Responsibility Law (EPR).   […]