NAICS 323120—Support Activities for Printing

Where 323120 sits

1. 31-33 Manufacturing
2. 323 Printing and Related Support Activities
3. 3231 Printing and Related Support Activities
4. 32312 Support Activities for Printing
5. 323120 Support Activities for Printing

Description

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.

Cross-references for 323120

• 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, Chemical, and Copy Toner Manufacturing;
• Manufacturing blank plates (except photosensitive plates) for printing--are classified in U.S. Industry 333248, All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing; and
• Printing books or printing and binding books--are classified in U.S. Industry 323117, Books Printing.

Index entries for 323120

40 entries from the official NAICS alphabetic index that classify under this code.

• Almanac binding without printing
• Bookbinding shops
• Bookbinding without printing
• Color separation services, for the printing trade
• Dictionary binding without printing
• Electronic prepress services for the printing trade
• Electrotype plate preparation services
• Embossing plate preparation services
• Encyclopedia binding without printing
• Engraving printing plate, for the printing trade
• Fiction bookbinding without printing
• Flexographic plate preparation services
• Gold stamping books for the trade
• Gravure plate and cylinder preparation services
• Imagesetting services, prepress
• Letterpress plate preparation services
• Lithographic plate preparation services
• Nonfiction bookbinding without printing
• Offset plate preparation services
• Pamphlet binding without printing
• Photocomposition services, for the printing trade
• Photoengraving plate preparation services
• Phototypesetting services
• Postpress services (e.g., beveling, bronzing, folding, gluing, edging, foil stamping, gilding) on printed materials
• Prepress printing services (e.g., color separation, imagesetting, photocomposition, typesetting)
• Printing plate preparation services
• Printing postpress services (e.g., beveling, bronzing, folding, gluing, edging, foil stamping) to printed products (e.g., books, cards, paper)
• Printing prepress services (e.g., color separation, imagesetting, photocomposition, typesetting)
• Professional bookbinding without printing
• Rebinding books, magazines, or pamphlets
• Religious bookbinding without printing
• Repairing books
• Rotogravure printing plates and cylinders preparation services
• Samples mounting
• School textbooks binding without printing
• Screen for printing, preparation services
• Swatches and samples, mounting for the trade
• Technical manual paper (books) binding without printing
• Trade binding services
• Typesetting (i.e., computer controlled, hand, machine)

323120 in other systems