Pigments, resins and additives are essentially the three main ingredients of ink. It should come as no surprise to anyone in the ink and allied industries that all of these ingredients are facing increasing volatility of raw materials cost and availability. As I note in The Resin Report, beginning on page 18, and The Additives Market, starting on page 30, major manufacturers of resins and additives, whether they are waxes, defoamers, surfactants or other ingredients, are under tremendous pressu...