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2017 Edition

national industry 323120

Support Activities for Printing

Overview

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing prepress and postpress services in support of printing activities. Prepress services may include such things as platemaking, typesetting, trade binding, and sample mounting. Postpress services include such things as book or paper bronzing, die cutting, edging, embossing, folding, gilding, gluing, and indexing.

The immediate parent of national industry 323120 is international industry 32312: Support Activities for Printing

2017 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Engraving on metal--are classified in U.S. Industry 332812, Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers;
  • Manufacturing photosensitive plates for printing--are classified in U.S. Industry 325992, Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, and Chemical Manufacturing;
  • Manufacturing blank plates (except photosensitive plates) for printing--are classified in U.S. Industry 333244, Printing Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing; and
  • Printing books or printing and binding books--are classified in U.S. Industry 323117, Books Printing.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 323120 - Almanac binding without printing
  2. 323120 - Bookbinding shops
  3. 323120 - Bookbinding without printing
  4. 323120 - Color separation services, for the printing trade
  5. 323120 - Dictionary binding without printing
  6. 323120 - Electronic prepress services for the printing trade
  7. 323120 - Electrotype plate preparation services
  8. 323120 - Embossing plate preparation services
  9. 323120 - Encyclopedia binding without printing
  10. 323120 - Engraving printing plate, for the printing trade
  11. 323120 - Fiction bookbinding without printing
  12. 323120 - Flexographic plate preparation services
  13. 323120 - Gold stamping books for the trade
  14. 323120 - Gravure plate and cylinder preparation services
  15. 323120 - Imagesetting services, prepress
  16. 323120 - Letterpress plate preparation services
  17. 323120 - Lithographic plate preparation services
  18. 323120 - Nonfiction bookbinding without printing
  19. 323120 - Offset plate preparation services
  20. 323120 - Pamphlet binding without printing
  21. 323120 - Photocomposition services, for the printing trade
  22. 323120 - Photoengraving plate preparation services
  23. 323120 - Phototypesetting services
  24. 323120 - Postpress services (e.g., beveling, bronzing, folding, gluing, edging, foil stamping, gilding) on printed materials
  25. 323120 - Prepress printing services (e.g., color separation, imagesetting, photocomposition, typesetting)
  26. 323120 - Printing plate preparation services
  27. 323120 - Printing postpress services (e.g., beveling, bronzing, folding, gluing, edging, foil stamping) to printed products (e.g., books, cards, paper)
  28. 323120 - Printing prepress services (e.g., color separation, imagesetting, photocomposition, typesetting)
  29. 323120 - Professional bookbinding without printing
  30. 323120 - Rebinding books, magazines, or pamphlets
  31. 323120 - Religious bookbinding without printing
  32. 323120 - Repairing books
  33. 323120 - Rotogravure printing plates and cylinders preparation services
  34. 323120 - Samples mounting
  35. 323120 - School textbooks binding without printing
  36. 323120 - Screen for printing, preparation services
  37. 323120 - Swatches and samples, mounting for the trade
  38. 323120 - Technical manual paper (books) binding without printing
  39. 323120 - Trade binding services
  40. 323120 - Typesetting (i.e., computer controlled, hand, machine)

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 323121 323122
2007 323121 323122
2012 323120
2017 323120
2022 323120

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 2789 - Bookbinding and Related Work
  2. 2791 - Typesetting
  3. 2796 - Platemaking and Related Services

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 323120, Support Activities for Printing:

  1. book binding commercial printing electrotyping photo engraving publishing silkscreening typesetting
  2. bookbinding
  3. bookbinding and related work
  4. bookbinding editing
  5. bookbinding nonprofit
  6. bookbinding operation
  7. bookbinding operation editing designing proofreading and photographic composing
  8. commercial printing book binding electrotyping photo engraving publishing silkscreening typesetting
  9. commercial printing prepress service
  10. commercial printing publishing electrotyping typesetting photo engraving book binding silkscreening
  11. electronic pre press
  12. electronic prepress
  13. electrotyping
  14. electrotyping book binding commercial printing photo engraving publishing silkscreening typesetting
  15. electrotyping by specialist contractor
  16. 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
  17. engraving
  18. manufacturing
  19. photo engraving
  20. photo engraving book binding commercial printing electrotyping publishing silkscreening typesetting
  21. photo typesetting
  22. photoengraving
  23. platemaking and related service
  24. printing and related support activity
  25. printing not otherwise classified
  26. printing plate manufacturing not metal
  27. printing support activity
  28. printing typesetting by computer
  29. publishing book binding commercial printing electrotyping photo engraving silkscreening typesetting
  30. sample card manufacturing
  31. sample card manufacturing ny
  32. silk screen manufacturing salesman
  33. silk screen printing
  34. silkscreening book binding commercial printing electrotyping photo engraving publishing typesetting
  35. support activity for printing
  36. typesetting
  37. typesetting book binding commercial printing electrotyping photo engraving publishing silkscreening

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