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2017 Edition

national industry 323111

Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books)

Overview

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in commercial printing (except screen printing, books printing) without publishing (except grey goods printing). The printing processes used in this industry include, but are not limited to, lithographic, gravure, flexographic, letterpress, engraving, and various digital printing technologies. This industry includes establishments engaged in commercial printing on purchased stock materials, such as stationery, invitations, labels, and similar items, on a job- order basis. Establishments primarily engaged in traditional printing activities combined with document photocopying services (i.e., quick printers) or primarily engaged in printing graphical materials using digital printing equipment are included in this industry.

The immediate parent of national industry 323111 is international industry 32311: Printing

2017 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Screen printing on purchased stock materials (except books, grey goods, and manifold business forms)--are classified in U.S. Industry 323113, Commercial Screen Printing;
  • Printing on grey goods--are classified in Industry 313310, Textile and Fabric Finishing Mills;
  • Printing books and pamphlets--are classified in U.S. Industry 323117, Books Printing;
  • Manufacturing printed stationery, invitations, labels, and similar items--are classified in Subsector 322, Paper Manufacturing;
  • Manufacturing and printing advertising specialties--are classified in the Manufacturing sector according to the products made;
  • Providing photocopying service on photocopy equipment without performing traditional printing activities--are classified in U.S. Industry 561439, Other Business Service Centers (including Copy Shops); and
  • Printing and publishing, known as publishers--are classified in Subsector 511, Publishing Industries (except Internet).

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 323111 - Address lists commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  2. 323111 - Advertising materials (e.g., coupons, flyers) commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  3. 323111 - Agricultural magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  4. 323111 - Albums (e.g., photo, scrap) and refills manufacturing
  5. 323111 - Appointment books and refills manufacturing
  6. 323111 - Art prints commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  7. 323111 - Atlases commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  8. 323111 - Blankbooks and refills manufacturing
  9. 323111 - Books, sales, manifold, printing
  10. 323111 - Business directories commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  11. 323111 - Business forms commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  12. 323111 - Business forms, manifold, printing
  13. 323111 - Calendars commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  14. 323111 - Cards (e.g., business, greeting, playing, postcards, trading) commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  15. 323111 - Catalogs commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  16. 323111 - Catalogs of collections commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  17. 323111 - Checkbooks and refills printing
  18. 323111 - Comic books commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  19. 323111 - Commercial digital printing (except books)
  20. 323111 - Commercial engraving printing (except books)
  21. 323111 - Commercial flexographic printing (except books)
  22. 323111 - Commercial gravure printing (except books)
  23. 323111 - Commercial letterpress printing (except books)
  24. 323111 - Commercial lithographic (offset) printing (except books)
  25. 323111 - Commercial printing (except screen, books)
  26. 323111 - Commercial quick printing (except books)
  27. 323111 - Computer forms (manifold or continuous) printing
  28. 323111 - Credit and identification card imprinting, embossing, and encoding
  29. 323111 - Databases commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  30. 323111 - Diaries manufacturing
  31. 323111 - Digital printing (e.g., billboards, other large format graphic materials, high resolution) (except books)
  32. 323111 - Directories commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  33. 323111 - Discount coupon books commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  34. 323111 - Financial magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  35. 323111 - Flexographic printing (except books, grey goods)
  36. 323111 - Globe covers and maps commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  37. 323111 - Gravure printing (except books, grey goods)
  38. 323111 - Greeting cards (e.g., birthday, holiday, sympathy) commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  39. 323111 - Guides, street map, commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  40. 323111 - Hydrographic printing
  41. 323111 - Instant printing (i.e., quick printing) (except books)
  42. 323111 - Intaglio printing (except books)
  43. 323111 - Job printing (except screen, books)
  44. 323111 - Job printing, engraving (except books)
  45. 323111 - Job printing, flexographic (except books)
  46. 323111 - Job printing, gravure (except books)
  47. 323111 - Job printing, letterpress (except books)
  48. 323111 - Job printing, lithographic (except books)
  49. 323111 - Job printing, offset (except books)
  50. 323111 - Juvenile magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  51. 323111 - Labels, commercial printing (except screen), on a job-order basis
  52. 323111 - Lithographic printing (except books, grey goods)
  53. 323111 - Looseleaf binders and devices manufacturing
  54. 323111 - Magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  55. 323111 - Manifold business forms printing
  56. 323111 - Maps commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  57. 323111 - Music, sheet, commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  58. 323111 - Newsletters commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  59. 323111 - Newspapers commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  60. 323111 - Offset printing (except books, grey goods)
  61. 323111 - Patterns and plans (e.g., clothing patterns) commercial printing (except blueprinting, screen) without publishing
  62. 323111 - Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  63. 323111 - Photo albums and refills manufacturing
  64. 323111 - Postcards commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  65. 323111 - Posters commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  66. 323111 - Print shops, digital (except printing books)
  67. 323111 - Print shops, engraving (except printing books)
  68. 323111 - Print shops, flexographic (except printing books)
  69. 323111 - Print shops, gravure (except printing books)
  70. 323111 - Print shops, letterpress (except printing books)
  71. 323111 - Print shops, lithographic (offset) (except printing books)
  72. 323111 - Print shops, quick (except printing books)
  73. 323111 - Printing apparel (except screen printing)
  74. 323111 - Printing manifold business forms
  75. 323111 - Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods)
  76. 323111 - Printing, engraving, on paper products
  77. 323111 - Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods)
  78. 323111 - Printing, gravure (except books, grey goods)
  79. 323111 - Printing, letterpress (except books, grey goods)
  80. 323111 - Printing, lithographic (except books, grey goods)
  81. 323111 - Printing, photo-offset (except books, grey goods)
  82. 323111 - Printing, quick (except books, grey goods)
  83. 323111 - Professional magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  84. 323111 - Quick printing (except books)
  85. 323111 - Racetrack programs commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  86. 323111 - Racing forms commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  87. 323111 - Radio guides commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  88. 323111 - Radio schedules commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  89. 323111 - Religious magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  90. 323111 - Rotogravure printing (except books)
  91. 323111 - Sales books, manifold, printing
  92. 323111 - Scholarly journals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  93. 323111 - Scholastic magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  94. 323111 - Scrapbooks and refills manufacturing
  95. 323111 - Sheet music commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  96. 323111 - Shipping registers commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  97. 323111 - Stationery, commercial printing (except screen), on a job-order basis
  98. 323111 - Technical magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  99. 323111 - Telephone directories commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  100. 323111 - Television guides commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  101. 323111 - Time planners/organizers and refills manufacturing
  102. 323111 - Trade journals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  103. 323111 - Trade magazines and periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing
  104. 323111 - Unit set forms (e.g., manifold credit card slips) printing
  105. 323111 - Yearbooks commercial printing (except screen) without publishing

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 323111
2007 323111
2012 323111
2017 323111
2022 323111

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 2752 - Commercial Printing, Lithographic
  2. 2754 - Commercial Printing, Gravure
  3. 2759 - Commercial Printing, Not Elsewhere Classified
  4. 2761 - Manifold Business Forms
  5. 2771 - Greeting Cards
  6. 2782 - Blankbooks, Looseleaf Binders and Devices

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 323111, Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books):

  1. additive manufacturing or 3d printing
  2. binder manufacturing ringed
  3. blankbook looseleaf binder and device
  4. book binding commercial printing electrotyping photo engraving publishing silkscreening typesetting
  5. business form printing
  6. business form printing by web press
  7. cigar band printing
  8. cloth printing
  9. commercial printing book binding electrotyping photo engraving publishing silkscreening typesetting
  10. commercial printing except screen and book
  11. commercial printing gravure
  12. commercial printing lithographic
  13. commercial printing lithography
  14. commercial printing not otherwise classified
  15. commercial printing publishing electrotyping typesetting photo engraving book binding silkscreening
  16. copying and duplicating store no mailbox service
  17. copying and duplicating store with mailbox service
  18. copying or duplicating service quick printer
  19. copying or duplicating service quick printer store only
  20. digital printing
  21. digital printing naic
  22. dress pattern manufacturing
  23. dress pattern printing
  24. duplicating or copying service quick printer
  25. electrotyping book binding commercial printing photo engraving publishing silkscreening typesetting
  26. electrotyping or lithographing or playing card manufacturing or rubber stamp manufacturing or assembly or sign manufacturing plastic or vinyl computer generated letter or graphic no painting or using power machinery or silk screen printing paper or posterboard plastic or wood
  27. engraving
  28. fabricated textile product printing on fabric article
  29. greeting card
  30. greeting card manufacturing
  31. greeting card printing by publisher or contractor
  32. label manufacturing paper printing
  33. label printing
  34. lithographing
  35. lithographing no mailbox service
  36. lithographing retail
  37. lithographing with mailbox service
  38. loose leaf binder or ledger manufacturing
  39. manifold business form
  40. manifold business form printing
  41. manufacturing
  42. offset duplication
  43. other commercial printing service
  44. paper dress pattern printing
  45. pattern dress printing paper
  46. pattern making not otherwise classified
  47. pattern making not otherwise classified or last or show form manufacturing or wood carving by hand or machine
  48. pattern or model manufacturing
  49. pattern or model manufacturing metal plastic or wood
  50. photo engraving book binding commercial printing electrotyping publishing silkscreening typesetting
  51. picture painting
  52. playing card manufacturing
  53. print shop other than quick print
  54. print shop other than quick print no silk screening
  55. printing
  56. printing and linotype or lithograph service
  57. printing and related support activity
  58. printing book or greeting card by publisher or contractor
  59. printing business form
  60. printing commercial
  61. printing digital
  62. printing flexographic
  63. printing lithography
  64. printing nfp
  65. printing no mailbox service
  66. printing non flammable ink
  67. printing nonprofit
  68. printing not otherwise classified
  69. printing operation
  70. printing principally sheet fed press production de pa
  71. printing quick printing
  72. printing service
  73. printing with mailbox service
  74. publishing book binding commercial printing electrotyping photo engraving silkscreening typesetting
  75. quick print shop
  76. quick print shop no silk screening
  77. quick printer
  78. quick printing
  79. quick printing copying or dup lication service
  80. quick printing copying or duplicating service
  81. ringed binder manufacturing
  82. screen printing
  83. silk screen printing
  84. silkscreening book binding commercial printing electrotyping photo engraving publishing typesetting
  85. stationary manufacturing or carbon paper or typewriter ribbon manufacturing or inked ribbon preparation or loose leaf ledger manufacturing or note book manufacturing or typewriter ribbon manufacturing
  86. stationery
  87. stationery manufacture
  88. stationery manufacturing
  89. tag printing
  90. typesetting book binding commercial printing electrotyping photo engraving publishing silkscreening

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