SBI 18—Printing and reproduction of recorded media

Where 18 sits

1. C Manufacturing
2. 18 Printing and reproduction of recorded media

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 18.1 Printing and service activities related to printing
• 18.2 Reproduction of recorded media

What 18 includes

• This division comprises the printing of products, such as newspapers, books, magazines, business forms, and greeting cards, the printing of T-shirts and other types of materials, and related ancillary activities, such as bookbinding, plate-making services, and data imaging. The ancillary activities included here are an integral part of the printing industry, and a product (a printing plate, a bound book, or a computer disk or file) that is an integral part of the printing industry is almost always supplied with these activities.
• Ownership of the input material is irrelevant to the classification of printing and reproduction of incorporated media divisions.18explicitly relates to processing activities.
• Processes used in printing encompass a variety of methods for transferring an image from a plate, screen, or computer file to a medium, for example, paper, plastic, metal, textiles, wood. The most prominent of these methods consists of transferring the image from a plate or screen to the medium by means of lithography, intaglio, screen printing, or flexographic printing. Often, a computer file is used to directly control the printing mechanism to create the image, or electrostatic and other types of equipment (digital or non-impact printing).
• Although printing and publishing can be carried out by the same unit (for example, a newspaper), it is becoming increasingly rare for these different activities to be performed at the same physical location.
• The reproduction of recorded media, such as compact discs, video recordings, software on discs or tapes, plates.

What 18 excludes

• Publishing activities, section J
• Manufacture of products using a 3D printer, which are classified based on the product and the material used.

18 in other systems