KBLI 1811—Printing

Where 1811 sits

1. C Industry
2. 18 Printing and Reproduction of Recorded Media
3. 181 Printing and Related Service Activities
4. 1811 Printing

Contains 3 narrower codes

• 18111 General Printing
• 18112 Special Printing
• 18113 Three-Dimensional (3D) Printing

What 1811 includes

• Printing of newspapers, magazines and other periodicals (such as tabloids), books and brochures, musical manuscripts, maps, atlases, posters, advertising catalogs, prospectuses and other printed advertisements, postage stamps, tax stamps, documents, checks and other confidential papers, diaries, calendars, business letters and other commercial printed matter, as well as personal stationery and other printed matter produced by printing presses, offset, photogravure, flexography and similar printing machines, duplicating machines, computer printing machines and embossed letter printing machines, including fast printing machines;
• Direct printing onto textiles, plastic, glass, metal, wood and ceramic materials;
• Laser engraving on textiles. These printed materials are usually copyrighted.
• Printing on labels or identification marks (lithography, in-printing/gravure, flexographic printing, etc.);
• Printing of signs, beer coasters and photos;
• Advertising printing activities.

What 1811 excludes

• Printing on textiles as an intermediate process in textile manufacture, see class 1313;
• Making goods from paper, such as binders, see class 1709;
• Publication of printed matter, see group 581;
• Engraving on metal, glass, wood, etc., see the appropriate subclass according to the material used;
• Advertising design activities, see class 7310;
• Operation of photocopiers as a self-service, see class 8210.

1811 in other systems