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FILED AS OF DATE:		20140602
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20140602

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ASTRO MED INC /NEW/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000008146
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT, NEC [3577]
		IRS NUMBER:				050318215
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			RI
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0131

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-13200
		FILM NUMBER:		14883895

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		600 E GREENWICH AVE
		CITY:			WEST WARWICK
		STATE:			RI
		ZIP:			02893
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4018284000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		600 E GREENWICH AVENUE
		CITY:			WEST WARWICK
		STATE:			RI
		ZIP:			02893

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ATLAN TOL INDUSTRIES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19850220
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:10pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM SD </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SPECIALIZED
DISCLOSURE REPORT </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:22pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Astro-Med, Inc. </B></P>
<P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Exact name of the registrant as
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><B>600 East Greenwich Avenue, West Warwick, Rhode Island</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B>(Address of principle executive offices)</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B>(Zip code)</B></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Steve Petrarca (401)&nbsp;828-4000
x220 </B></P> <P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Name and telephone
number, including area code, of the </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>person to contact in connection with this report.) </B></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being
filed and provide the period to which the information in this form applies: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January&nbsp;1 to December&nbsp;31, 2013. </TD></TR></TABLE>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Section&nbsp;1 &#150; Conflict Mineral Disclosure </B></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B>&#150; Conflicts Minerals Disclosure and Report </B></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise indicated, references to
&#147;Astro-Med,&#148; the &#147;Company,&#148; &#147;we,&#148; &#147;our,&#148; and &#147;us&#148; in this Form SD refer to Astro-Med, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Astro-Med has implemented a conflict mineral policy in order to address the containment of conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of
our products. In September of 2013, we adopted the following policy with respect to conflict minerals. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Support the aims and objective of the U.S. legislation on the supply of &#147;conflict minerals&#148; </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Do not knowingly procure specified metals that originate from facilities in the &#147;Conflict Region&#148; </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Ensure compliance with these requirements, and ask our suppliers to undertake reasonable due diligence with their supply chains to assure that specified metals are being sourced only from: </TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Mines and smelters outside the &#147;Conflict Region&#148; or </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Mines and smelters which have been certified by and independent third party as &#147;conflict free&#148; if sources within the &#147;Conflict Region&#148; </TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The definition of &#147;conflict minerals&#148; refers to gold, as well as tin, tantalum, and tungsten, the derivatives of cassiterite, columbite-tantalite ,
and wolframite, regardless of where they are sources, processed or sold. The &#147;Conflict Region&#148; is situated in the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">To put our commitment to this policy in action, we first conducted a detailed review of our purchases of materials necessary to the functionality of products
we manufactured in 2013 to determine whether we purchase any conflict minerals. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">After a review of our products, we determined that we use gold, tin and
tantalum as they occur in electronic components supplied to us in the manufacture of our products during calendar year 2013. Because of this finding, we conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry (RCOI), which was designed to determine whether
any of the necessary conflict minerals contained in our products originated or may have originated in the conflict region or come from recycled or scrap sources. Our supply chain is complex, and there are many indirect suppliers in the supply chain
between us and the mines or locations of origin of our necessary conflict minerals. We do not purchase any conflict minerals directly from </P>

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miners, smelters or refiners. Therefore, we must rely on our direct and indirect suppliers to provide information about the origin of the necessary conflict minerals in our products. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We have determined that after a good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry of our vendors and suppliers, that none of the Conflict Minerals contained in
products manufactured by the Company originated in the Conflict Region. As part of our reasonable country of origin inquiry, we required that all of our vendors complete detailed questionnaires regarding the inclusion of Conflict Minerals in the
products that the vendors supplied to the Company. In the event there were any Conflict Minerals contained in a vendor&#146;s products sold to us, we followed up with such vendor to find out whether those Conflict Minerals originated in one of the
Conflict Region. Based on our inquiries, none of these vendors indicated that Conflict Minerals found in their products came from the Conflict Region, and we have no reason to believe that any Conflict Minerals contained in products manufactured by
us originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo or any adjoining country. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This information is publicly available at http://www.astro-medinc.com. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B>&#150; Exhibit </B></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not required. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Section&nbsp;2 Item&nbsp;2.01 Exhibits </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">None </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SIGNATURES </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top">June&nbsp;2, 2014</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-size:10pt">By Steve Petrarca, Vice President-Instrument Manufacturing</FONT></TD>
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