SBI 18.12—Other printing

Where 18.12 sits

1. C Manufacturing
2. 18 Printing and reproduction of recorded media
3. 18.1 Printing and service activities related to printing
4. 18.12 Other printing

Contains 6 narrower codes

• 18.12.1 Printing of books and similar products
• 18.12.2 Printing of magazines
• 18.12.3 Printing of advertising material
• 18.12.4 Printing of packaging material
• 18.12.5 Printing of forms
• 18.12.9 Other printing activities (rest)

What 18.12 includes

• The printing of magazines and other periodicals appearing less than four times a week
• The printing of books and brochures, music and musical manuscripts, maps, atlases, posters, advertising catalogues, prospectuses and other advertising print matter, postage stamps, fiscal stamps, title deeds, cheques and other securities, chip cards, albums, diaries, calendars and other commercial print matter, beer mats, personalized stationery and other print matter by means of letterpress, offset, photogravure, flexography, screen printing and other printing presses, duplicating machines, computer printers, embossing machines etc., including high-speed printing directly on textiles, plastics, glass, metal, wood and ceramics
• Digital printing
• Screen printing on textiles and clothing
• Photocopying of documents
• Decorative print matter, such as the printing of gift packaging, wallpaper, transfer materials
• Large format printing, e.g. printing of flags, banners, roll-ups, posters
• The printed material is usually protected by copyright.
• This class includes exclusively printing services, not goods.
• Printing of labels, for example lithographic, intaglio, flexographic, printing of characters
• Laser engraving on textiles
• Printing of photos
• Advertising print

What 18.12 excludes

• Printing of fabrics as an intermediate process in the manufacture of textiles, see 1330
• Manufacture of office supplies (e.g. notebooks, binders, registers, accounting books, business forms) when the printed information is not the main feature, see 1723
• Publishing of printed matter, see 581

18.12 in other systems