NAFSubclass

NAF 18.13YActivities pre-press

Subclass · Nomenclature d'Activités Française (2025)

Where 18.13Y sits

  1. C Manufacturing industry
  2. 18 Printing and reproduction of recorded
  3. 18.1 Printing and related services
  4. 18.13 Activities pre-press
  5. 18.13Y Activities pre-press

What 18.13Y includes

  • The composition, the layout and typesetting, data entry in a form that is usable in a variety of printing processes and in the representation in other visual media, including scanning and optical character recognition, the implementation in electronic form
  • The preparation of data files for multimedia applications (printing on paper, CD-ROM, internet) services, photogravure, including typesetting and the realization plates (for the printing processes letterpress and offset)
  • The preparation of cylinders: Etching of cylinders for the reproduction of prints
  • Plate processing: Transfer CTP (computer-to-plate") of the computer-to-plate, also on plates in photopolymers
  • Preparation of plates and dies for stamping or embossed print
  • The preparation of: • art work of a technical nature (for example the preparation of lithographic stones and blocks of wood) • presentation materials • drawings, models, mock-ups, etc • production tests

What 18.13Y excludes

  • Graphic design visual content for the communication of information not intended for to be printed, see group 74.1

18.13Y in other systems

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