KBLI 18120—Printing Support Service Activities

Where 18120 sits

1. C Industry
2. 18 Printing and Reproduction of Recorded Media
3. 181 Printing and Related Service Activities
4. 1812 Printing Support Service Activities
5. 18120 Printing Support Service Activities

What 18120 includes

• Pre-press and pre-media services, as well as binding and related services.
• Binding printed sheets, for example into books, brochures, magazines, catalogs and so on, by folding, mounting, sewing, gluing, joining, binding with adhesive, tidying and gold stamping;
• Composing, typesetting, photographic typesetting, inputting pre-print data into forms that can be used in various printing processes and representation in other visual media, including scanning and optical character recognition, and electronic composing;
• Preparation of data files for multimedia applications (printing on paper, CD-ROM, internet);
• Plate making services, including image arrangement and plate arrangement (for printing and offset printing processes);
• Cylinder preparation: engraving or etching of cylinders for in-printing/gravure;
• Plate processing: "computer to plate"/"computer to plate" (CTP) (including photopolymer plates);
• Preparation of plates and molds for relief printing and stamping;
• Preparation of technical works of art, such as preparing stone and wood blocks for lithography; presentation media sketches, layouts, designs/dummies, and so on
• Making molds for trials/proofs;
• Commercial binding, sample mounting, and post-press services in support of printing activities For example, binding and finishing of books, brochures, magazines and catalogs, with folding, cutting and creasing, assembling, sewing, thread binding, glue binding, cutting and attaching covers, gluing, joining, arranging, gold stamping; spiral binding and plastic wire binding;
• Binding and finishing of printed paper or printed paperboard, by folding, stamping, drilling, punching, embossing, pasting, gluing and coating;
• Final finishing services for CD-ROMs;
• Final settlement of correspondence services, such as customization and envelope preparation;
• Other final completion activities, such as die cutting, stamping or stamping, and Braille copying.

What 18120 excludes

• Graphic design activities of visual content for information communication using printing machines and other media, see class 7419.

18120 in other systems